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I haven't said anything because I was trying to assimilate it (I still haven't) but the departure of Reus has destroyed my soul.
And it destroys me even more that we are reaching the end of an era, I am not ready for players who have marked my entire childhood and adolescence to gradually retire.
Milli during the game between Dynamo Moscow and Fotball Club Rostov. Maxi scored twice:
33'(p)
90'(p)
Marco acting cute nd crazy at the same time that's what I missed 🐝
— Mili, give us an hour if u feel bad there.
Mili:
hotties 🔥
OMG IM CRYING
cr: melanie's ig story
happy b-day to our capi!! 💛💛💛
i feel bad everytime that i remember that, probably, reus isn't going to play for dortmund in the 24/25 season
Leaking the departure of one of your biggest legends is absolutely embarrassing and pathetic after all he had done for us. Having the interview be RIGHT before the UCL final was honestly embarrassing and a very bad look for the club even if it was accurate in showing our current situation. Still think he had a right to know before us though. Lowkey think it was Terzic who leaked but that’s just a theory
Behind the scenes of Mats’ retirement announcement
So FIFA The Best Awards are out and it’s absolutely disgraceful. The bias that FIFA have against German teams in general is really showing with these nominations. We already know they’re biased against us, but this?
Dortmund went to a UCL FINAL with Kobel, the goalkeeper of the tournament; Sabitzer, who received multiple MOTM awards during the UCL, and Hummels who was the defender of the tournament and got 3 MOTM AS A DEFENDER. And only Hummels was nominated.
Harry Kane scored 40 something goals, and was close to breaking the leagues record in his first season. He should have gotten a nomination.
Martinez getting the goalkeeper awards for his World Cup 2022 performance over Kobel, the goalkeeper of the tournament is pathetic. Messi has been chilling in a retirement league, he shouldn’t be anywhere near this list, and that goes for all players in retirement leagues.
It’s crazy how we keep on getting robbed. No one will ever take our league seriously because FIFA as an organization doesn’t even take the league seriously.
It’s conspiracy theory time.
We all saw this picture. We all wondered what it meant. We thought, “Why is sitting like that? Staring like that? Will he be getting a new contract?” And now, knowing what we know, I think he knew. He wouldn’t be coming back to Borussia Dortmund. It was his last match at the Yellow Wall.
Here’s my flimsy evidence: That photo was taken on May 18. Terzic and Mats had already been clashing for the entire year over tactics, and probably much more. BVB Central reported through Bild, that the relationship with Terzic was considered “cold” on March 6. Even though Bild is not entirely reliable, it was probably reliable on this.
Reports also came through of Terzic and Mats having a massive fight shortly before the UCL final, person consequences being threatened. This might have happened because of the brutally honest interview Mats gave three days before the final, which would have placed their fight around May 28 or 29, most likely completely destroying their relationship beyond repair.
Back to the day that photo was taken, May 18. By that point, according to reports, many of Dortmund’s players, including almost the entirety of the senior players, including Mats of course, would have been heavily against Terzic. If it is true that he essentially staged a coup, it would have been Terzic and the Board vs the players of Borussia Dortmund.
It was the last match of the year, we got fifth place, barely scraping champions league football, the first time we hadn’t gotten it since the disastrous 2014-2015 season. A vocal player like Mats would not have let that happen without complaint. Since Terzic was the manager, in charge of the tactics, he would have made sure he was unhappy with how the team performed all season along with the tactics given to them.
After the end of the match, we also got this photo:
Marco pushed Mats up to the front. Does that mean they knew he probably wouldn’t be getting an extension and wanted him to get a goodbye? Marco got an entire game dedicated to him, tifo and all, but Mats got nothing. He probably wouldn’t have minded too much, he knew it was Marco’s day, and he seem to be a pretty chill guy.
Marco might have done it anyway, but it would have made sense for Mats to get his standing ovation because there wouldn’t be another game for him to get one from.
That’s the end of my mindless rambling, Mats knew he wouldn’t have spent another year with the Dortmund because the contract extension was always off the table.
Dear BVB,
Dear BVB fans,
Now the time has come.
Over 13 years of black and yellow are coming to an end for me.
Dortmund was my home for 13 years.
It is Thursday, June 13th, and I am sitting on the couch in the evening as I try to write these lines.
EVOr
It is really hard for me.
The way it was said makes me very sad, because this impersonal farewell does not do justice to the time we spent together.
But that is unfortunately how it is sometimes in this business, and the day will come when we can make up for it together in front of the yellow wall. I chose this farewell to some extent myself, because I deliberately did not want to make an early decision about my future.
That is why the last few months have been emotionally challenging for me, because it was always clear that they could be my last in black and yellow.
Many of you have probably noticed how much I enjoyed everything about the last home games and the Champions League final. After the game, sitting alone at the post in the most beautiful temple in the world, soaking up the atmosphere, and standing in front of the South when everyone was singing my name.
Pure goosebumps, even if I think about it again. It was and is a great honor and I will never forget it. Please do me a favor and don't believe everything I've read over the last few days. There were a lot of untruths and half-truths.
Just this much: in all these years.
BVB has always been above all else for me, and I always wanted the best for the club on and off the pitch
The influence of a 35-year-old player who doesn't know how his career will continue from the summer onwards has certainly not been as great in the last few months as the media sometimes makes it out to be. What have we experienced together in these years, with the gray league times at the beginning, with the first personal DFB Cup final in 2008.
About the upswing under Jürgen Klopp and the years that were almost like a rush. With so many highlights that I can't even list them. The finals won and lost. The last place at the beginning of 2015, which actually couldn't have happened, and the run back to 7th place at the end of the season.
Two Champions League finals and, most recently, two big missed title dreams.
But I was particularly pleased when I was accepted back to
BVB in 2019 after my transfer, and I hope you noticed: I tried everything and tore myself apart for the black and yellow jersey and success. There is no other place like the south stand.
I was called the "bricklayer of the yellow wall" a few weeks ago.
I'm going to hang that above my BVB trophy cabinet!
I'm incredibly proud of it.
I'll miss everything about this awesome club.
See you.
HEJA BVB!
BVB
Your Mats
So our man bullied Terzic out of the club 😭
Mats won.
This increases his chances of staying by a landslide, it is unlikely he goes to Italy now, since he got Terzic kicked out. I’m very happy about him staying now.
I am also a bit concerned about our coaching situation now. We’ve had around 5 (?) coaches since Klopp left in 2015, almost 10 years ago. It shows that we have a very unstable coaching situation. Klopp stayed for a very long time, and no other coaches we have had have stayed for an amount of time anywhere near his tenure.
Hopefully we can get a good coach for next season, or have Nuri Sahin or Bender take over, which is most likely the situation that will happen.
🎶 Now let me say I'm the biggest hater
I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk, I hate the way that you dress
I hate the way that you sneak diss, if I catch flight, it's gon' be direct 🎶
Marco Reus.
Where do I begin?
Loyal? Captain? Faithful? Teacher?
To many of us Dortmund fans, Marco Reus is the man who made us fans of the club. He spent 22 years with us, from youth ranks to the first team, and almost every moment in between. Not all of us have seen the whole journey, but that is okay.
We saw what we could, and each time, we were mesmerized. Mesmerized by his goal scoring ability, his vision, his off the ball movement, and all other fancy football terms. He is undoubtedly the best to ever wear the black and yellow, to don the schwarz-gelb, to play in the Westfalenstadion. He is the kind of player that as a child, we would stay up late to watch YouTube highlight compilations of, just to rewatch his magic.
His aesthetics aren’t typically what he is known for, though. What has always defined his career to non Dortmund supporters has been his loyalty to the club, his ever lasting trust in us. From when he renewed his contract when we were in the relegation zone, to when he stuck by us after each and every lost game, ruined DFB Pokal competitions, titles that slipped through our fingers by just a hair, and most recently, our second place finish in the UCL final, he always dusted himself off and told us that he would always stand with us through our struggles.
Never considering a move to Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus, or any other club while in his prime and their peak, he solidified himself as the best player to grace a “second rate team in the farmers league,” as so many doubters liked to put it. He had raised the Dortmund level so much, showed his abilities, his resilience, and faithfulness to the badge. Each time an elite club came asking for his services, the answer was always the same: “No, I want to stay at Dortmund,” or, “No amount of money will make me leave.” He has become synonymous with Borussia Dortmund. When people ask what’s so special about this club, the answer is will always be, “Marco Reus. He is Dortmund.”
Now he is leaving. He isn’t leaving in the way any of us wanted, no UCL, no title, but he leaves as our biggest ever legend. He wasn’t even the one to make the choice, which saddens us all, but like all good things, his time at Dortmund must come to an end.
He may not have as many trophies as Robert Lewandowski, or the pure skill of Messi, or the presence of Ronaldo, but he’s still just as memorable as them. When looking at lists of the best players of our generation his name will always be on the list.
Thank you for everything, Marco. I hope I’ll see you at the club again one day.
I know we’re all still upset about Marco leaving (😞), but he’s not the only one leaving. Both Mateau Morey and Marius Wolf are also leaving.
Marius Wolf is a difficult topic. He played plenty, and when he did play it was often unconvincing and not Dortmund standard. However, there were times when he did show up, and has always played for the badge. Each time he played, he played for the clubs sucess, not the multi million dollar pay check he was going to get at the end of the week. He shouldn’t have even played that much, we should have had better alternatives, but we didn’t. So he played, and he did his job. Not all the time, but enough to get us through the season. He played during our UCL journey, and has been here for such beautiful moments.
It really sucks for Mateu, because I feel that he could have really made something out of his time at this beautiful club. But he didn’t have the chance. When your body is fighting against all your hopes and dreams, hampering your potential and ability, it is a very hard road for success, more often than not resulting in failure. He didn’t deserve his year long, practically career ending injury, but it happened anyway. He still clearly loves the club, and it’s something I will forever be thankful for.
Thank you for everything Marius and Mateu!
Bellingham celebrated before some Madrid loser scored. Way to show respect to your previous club Pellingham
This is not okay. In what world is it okay to have a weapons company be a sponsor? Not only that, the company in questions has sent tens of thousands of weapons to Israel.
Regardless of political opinions, people are being hurt by weapons ever day in Palestine and Israel, and it’s not right for a football club to endorse this type of violence.
It doesn’t matter the amount of money we are getting from this, the sponsorship should not have been considered at all. This is not my club. This is not right. It is disgusting behavior from the higher ups, and shows that all we care about now is money. Absolutely disgusting behavior.
Borussia Dortmund is betraying their fan base by throwing away their morals in favor of 20 million dollars and a small graphic on the sleeve of the shirt.
So we all saw Thomas’ post. He’s so amazing for posting this for Marco. Always knew he was a top guy.
BUT ALSO. They were just teammates on the national team, they may actually be friends, but nowhere near as close at he and Mats. Imagine what he posts when Mats retires, I don’t think my heart will be able to take it 🥹
