FC Bayern Munich: Götze advisor on FCB change: “He threw all insults at my head”
Mario Götze’s move to FC Bayern 2013: Hardly a deal in league history has caused so much attention. Götze’s advisor now gives exact details of the transfer price.
Munich – No change in recent Bundesliga history has had such explosive power as Mario Götze’s transfer from Borussia Dortmund to FC Bayern in 2013.
Back then, the world in the Bundesliga was still different: BVB won the championship in 2011 and 2012, and played against FCB in the 2013 Champions League final. Unlike today, the teams met at eye level. The transfers of the top performers Götze, Robert Lewandowski and Mats Hummels vom caused a lot of discussion. Especially with top talent Götze, who was considered a great promise for the future in Dortmund.
The Götze deal was all the more explosive. In his new book “Meine Spielzüge. From the coal settlement to the most successful player consultant in Germany ”(published on October 28th in Piper Verlag, 22 euros, 336 pages), from which the image Having published some passages, Struth writes some interesting details.
Mario Götze moved from Dortmund to Bayern: The skepticism came immediately
“Matthias Sammer called and his first sentence sounded like he just wanted to have coffee with me. ‘Volker, could you imagine us sitting down?’ He said. And then: ‘I would like to talk to you about Mario. ”’ Sammer worked as a sports director for Bayern Munich. Something explodes with joy in me every time I can deliver a message like this to my players: ‘Bayern Munich just called!’ “, Struth writes in his book.
However, Sammer’s call did not make him completely happy: “Before I wrote this sentence down, I questioned my memories several times: Did I really get the skepticism immediately, when Matthias Sammer’s first inquiry? I am sure: yes, that was the case. Because I knew what was going to happen. “
As Struth writes, it had come out a month earlier that Pep Guardiola would be the new coach of FC Bayern. It was clear to him that Götze would want to go there immediately. “Not to FC Bayern, but to Guardiola. And I could see if that’s going to be okay. Where was the place for Mario in Guardiola’s Bayern team? But the name Guardiola was blind, ”Struth continued.
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“I tried to convince myself. Mario’s talent couldn’t stop anyone. He was already playing at the highest level in Dortmund for the third year, Bundesliga and Champions League, and at 20 he had more experience than most 25-year-old professionals, ”summarizes Struth. He informed Michael Zorc – and apparently had a completely unprepared sports director on the phone. When Struth told him that they wanted to pull the release clause, Zorc was speechless.
“Nothing. Borussia Dortmund’s sports director simply said nothing. The silence lingered. ‘I …’, Zorc began, ‘I have to swallow first. Let’s get back on the phone in five minutes. ‘ He called again five minutes later. He threw all the insults at my head that the German language produced, one after the other, for several minutes. I only said one sentence. ‘I can understand your anger. But I can’t change it. ‘”, Struth said according to the book in an interview.
Change of Mario Götze from Dortmund to Bayern: Guardiola as the sticking point
A day later, Zorc called again. He reported that BVB had been “frozen in shock” and asked for a meeting – which would also take place after the next Bundesliga game. In addition to Zorc, Jürgen Klopp, then BVB coach, club boss Hans-Joachim Watzke, Struth’s business partner and Götze and his father were also present. “I found myself hoping that Borussia’s coach Jürgen Klopp would persuade the boy to stay. Klopp has a sensational way of advertising, ”writes Struth.
Change of Mario Götze from Dortmund to Bayern: Klopp tries to convince
As Struth writes, Klopp had started to talk, raved about the unity with the audience, the love that the whole city felt for the club and also for Götze. Before Struth could even intervene, Götze would have spoken for himself: “I would like to experience that once, to play for Guardiola. That doesn’t mean that something bothers me in Dortmund. I just know this is an opportunity that will never come back and that I want to take advantage of. “
Struth states that he had never seen Götze “in such a stressful situation outside of the football field so confident, so emotionally in balance”. It took a good two hours until it was discovered on the Dortmund side that all the districts were in vain. “Your anger hit me. Because I had surely inoculated Mario what he had to say, or why was he so incredibly decisive? But the Dortmund team couldn’t hold back their disappointment with Mario either, ”summarizes Struth. “Got it, Mario, I’m not a Guardiola,” Klopp said, according to Struth, and was grim afterwards. Götze’s decision had been made.
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In the book, Struth describes his mixed emotional world after the meeting. Despite Götze’s certain, Struth had doubts. Especially since Guardiola hadn’t even called Götze personally during the entire transfer process and had made an appearance. That is one of the reasons why he addressed these thoughts again to player and father in the evening before Götze was whipped for the medical check-up. “Are you sure, Mario?” Struth asked. “Are you sure?” – “Quite sure”
So Gotze ended up in Munich – and Struth was right. Although he celebrates successes with Bayern, he was never completely happy there and always switched back to BVB, where he was also unable to build on previous performances. Today Götze plays at PSV Eindhoven, where he is one of the top performers. (kg)
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