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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.
Some pictures of Mats from the ceremony
Not Mats trying to replicate what happened in Dortmund the other day against Madrid 💀
I think my profile made this a reality, no complaints there 😅
He deserves this so much after the league and UCL performances, I can not even begin
Hey, Borussia Dortmund, I hear there’s this really good centre back who’s a free agent. Sebastian Kehl, you should check him out.
I would actually really like him to play in the Italian league. Wonder what the mystery club is. Milan? Juve? Madrid?
Okay guys no need to worry about our best ever defender joining the team that broke our hearts in June
Couldn’t even get his name right, highly doubt it’s happening. He’s most likely still going to Italy. Madrid fans seem to be moderately supportive, see him as a good 3rd choice, along with leadership. He’d probably do well in Spain. After all he is the goat
normal reaction when you choose the wrong team at Padel 👀 @mariuswolf27
Who was going to tell me Mats and Marius Wolf, of all people, are padel buddies? What other secret Dortmund bromances are there that we aren’t aware of? 👀
Bro mats has to stop watching tennis playing Padel and simping over his basketball guys and sign a stupid contract for a stupid club in Italy I’m getting worried and I can’t rep an unemployed man chop chop Milan/juve contract on the table pronto
it will always hurt...
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 🎶
DFB: suffering against Greece, barely pulling out a win
Mats and Leon:
Bellingham celebrated before some Madrid loser scored. Way to show respect to your previous club Pellingham
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 🥹
Still annoyed about Mats not getting the call up. We can say everything about his performances, but it’s clear the call ups weren’t based off that. He would have been on the list if it was based off form.
It’s most likely Bagelsmann being worried about someone who can question authority, and Mats has shown he can do that with Terzic, so he’s probably not below doing it with Bagelsmann too.
He is also a 35 year old man who can handle being on the bench for a few matches like a big boy because he is a professional who knows what comes with the job. If he doesn’t fit against a certain opponent, he doesn’t play, and that is especially true with his age at this point.
I just think it’s ridiculous that Mats can’t offer anything in Nagelsmann’s eyes, especially with his recent performances. It would have been real nice to see Jule called up too, but instead we got Koch and Robert Andrich, none of which will probably see playing time.
At least we got Fülle and Schlotti on the squad, real proud for them, they truly deserve it after all their hard work. It’s good they got seen.
Rant over. 😞
