adminAs anger and resentment towards Gotze mounted steadily, Dortmund boss Jurgen Klopp intervened and appealed for calm, ahead of his side’s Champions’ League semi-final first leg at the Westfalenstadion.
Nice try Jurgen, but one was doomed to failure after a furious response to Monday’s news that the 20-year old is heading to Munich, with Dortmund’s biggest Bundesliga rivals agreeing to meet his 37million euro buy-out clause.
Dortmund fans whistled every time Gotze was on the ball, even when they were revelling in a 4-1 lead against Jose Mourinho’s shell-shocked Spaniards. Some supporters also held up signs saying ‘Gotze raus’, which translates to ‘Gotze out’ in English.
Gotze needed a police escort to and from training on Tuesday, and there was little sign of fans reconciling themselves to his departure.
A photograph posted on Twitter showed Gotze’s yellow Dortmund shirt hanging on a peg, with JUDAS scrawled across where his name should be.
On YouTube, there is footage of another Dortmund jersey, with his name and number on the back, being burned, in what looks like someone’s garage. In a more sinister development, there were reports his younger brother returned home from school early, after suffering ‘traitor’ taunts, and that the family home had been spray painted by Dortmund ultras. The extreme reaction underlines the unfortunate timing of Monday’s announcement, though Dortmund insist it was not their fault.
They were at pains to keep it under wraps but were forced to go public after chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke was alerted to top-selling German newspaper Bild having impeccably-sourced evidence that the transfer had been agreed.
Watzke was powerless to prevent the transfer going through, after Bayern chiefs met the release clause on the orders of incoming coach Pep Guardiola. — Mailonline.
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