When Gotze returned home, Jurgen Gotze keenly noticed the abnormality in his son.

"How was your day, dear?" He was reading the newspaper and, hearing his son come in, didn't put it down, casually asking.

But he didn't get an answer from Gotze, only the sound of footsteps moving away from him.

Noticing the odd behavior, Jurgen Gotze put down the newspaper, looking suspiciously in the direction his son had disappeared.

At dinner time, his wife called out several times, but Gotze didn't come out of his bedroom.

The couple exchanged glances, and then Jurgen Gotze made a "I'll go" gesture, put down the newspaper, got up, and walked to Gotze's bedroom door. He knocked on the door: "Mario, are you asleep?"

But there was no sound from inside.

So Jurgen Gotze put his hand on the doorknob: "I'm coming in."

Still no response.

Jurgen turned the door open and found his son sitting on the bed, the room dark because the lights were not on.

Jurgen walked to the bedside and sat down, saying in a joking tone, "Looks like you didn't have a good day..."

"They all know," Gotze suddenly interrupted his father.

Jurgen looked at his son strangely.

"They all know I'm going to Bayern Munich," Gotze continued to mutter, his head lowered.

Jurgen was shocked. "Who told them?"

"That's not important, Dad. What's important is that in their eyes, I've become a traitor," Gotze said, shaking his head.

Jurgen reached out and stroked his son's head. "Don't worry about what others think. If you really cared, you shouldn't have chosen to go to Bayern Munich in the first place. Are you regretting it now?"

Gotze fell silent.

Why had he agreed to Bayern Munich's transfer invitation in the first place?

Was it because he had liked Bayern Munich since he was a child?

Was it because Bayern Munich's head coach next season was Pep Guardiola, whom he admired?

Or was it, as his agent Struth said, that going to Bayern Munich was the only way to become a world-class superstar?

On the surface, these were all perfectly good reasons.

But only Gotze himself knew why he wanted to go to Bayern Munich.

Deep down inside, there was a very secret corner, and no one knew of its existence except Gotze himself.

The media often referred to him, Reus, and Zhou Yi as the "Dortmund's Young Three Musketeers." Before Mark Wagner suffered a serious injury, the title belonged to him, Mark, and Zhou Yi.

To outsiders, Gotze and Zhou Yi were good friends, with similar experiences playing in Dortmund's youth team, and together they had won the national youth championship.

But only Gotze himself knew that his relationship with Zhou Yi wasn't as harmonious as the outside world believed.

Yes, he and Zhou Yi were indeed friends, and they could talk and laugh together.

But in that unknown corner, there was another emotion, which could be seen as "hostility" towards Zhou Yi.

Before Zhou Yi came to the team, Gotze had always been the most eye-catching star at every age level, and even in the first team, he was a highly anticipated rising star.

After meeting Zhou Yi, Gotze discovered Zhou Yi's talent, and he was happy to have met a peer who was as good as him.

Yes, all along, Gotze had believed that Zhou Yi was as good as him, and they were like "peerless twin prides."

Especially after the two of them worked together to win two national championships in the youth team, and then were promoted to the first team together.

But when he got to the first team, Gotze gradually realized that his previous understanding was wrong - he was not as good as Zhou Yi, but Zhou Yi was better than him...

Gotze couldn't accept this fact at first, and from that time on, he secretly began to compete with Zhou Yi.

But as time went by, he found himself being left further and further behind by Zhou Yi.

After Sahin transferred away from the team, Zhou Yi naturally became the core of the team, while he himself had only just become likely to play as a starter...

Subsequently, the development paths of the two people gradually began to diverge. Zhou Yi became more and more outstanding. Although Gotze also played as a starter in the team, he felt that it was not in line with his expectations.

He began to realize that the two people who had once been side by side in the youth team seemed to be no longer in the same world, and he inevitably lived in Zhou Yi's shadow.

All the media would recognize Zhou Yi's importance to Dortmund, but no one thought that he had the same important role to play for Dortmund.

Why go to Bayern Munich?

Because as long as he, Gotze, was still in Dortmund, he would not be able to get rid of Zhou Yi's influence.

He longed to go to Bayern Munich to prove himself again, to prove to everyone that he, Mario Gotze, was no worse than Zhou Yi, and he didn't have to live in Zhou Yi's shadow all the time.

Yes, I'm going to Bayern Munich not because I like Bayern Munich, but because I want to prove myself. I want to compete with Zhou Yi on the pitch!

Thinking of this, Gotze came back to his senses and shook his head to his father, "No, I don't regret it."

Jurgen patted him on the shoulder with satisfaction. "Since you don't regret it, then what's there to be afraid of? No matter what others think, just stick to your choice. But remember, you're still a Dortmund player, so you need to wholeheartedly help Dortmund win before the end of the season. Don't leave any handles for people to criticize."

"I understand, thank you, Dad," Gotze nodded.

Jurgen laughed. "Let's go, let's eat. Mom must be angry... I think that's the scariest thing..."

Hearing his father joking about his mother, Gotze also laughed.

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In the next day's training, Klopp also spoke to several players individually, but avoided the other players. No one knew what Klopp had talked to them about, and these people wouldn't say anything when asked by their teammates.

But it was obvious that the atmosphere in the team wasn't as tense and abnormal as it had been the first day.

Some people had accepted the reality that Gotze was about to leave them for Bayern Munich, and seemed no different from usual in their daily interactions with Gotze.

Some people still couldn't forgive him, and treated him like air when they met him in the team, such as Grosskreutz, who now not only didn't greet Gotze, but also directly aimed his nostrils at him.

There were also some people who, although they didn't glare at Gotze like Grosskreutz, were slowly cooling off their relationship with Gotze.

And Gotze?

Within the team, he was much more silent than before. He just trained every day, did his own thing, and didn't take the initiative to have any contact with his teammates.

Under such circumstances, Dortmund welcomed their opponents in the twenty-ninth round of the league, Fürth.

This game, Dortmund was away, the opponent was not strong, but should not be underestimated.

Not to mention the current problems within the team, even if there was no Gotze transfer, Dortmund, who had just fought Atletico Madrid for ninety-four minutes, were actually very tired. In addition, Fürth was ranked last, and with six rounds left in the league, they needed to fight for relegation. In the late stage of the league, relegation teams are even harder to beat than title contenders.

So Dortmund might not be able to easily defeat Fürth.

Not to mention that Dortmund was also affected by the Gotze transfer incident.

For the current Dortmund, the only good news might be Mark Wagner's return from injury.

Now that Dortmund was in need of manpower, Mark's return could effectively reduce Dortmund's dependence on Lewandowski on the front line, and also reduce Lewandowski's pressure.

Sure enough, before the game against Fürth, Klopp announced the team's eighteen-man list, and Mark Wagner was on it.

This game and Bayern Munich's home game against Nuremberg were played at the same time.

In China, Dortmund's game against Fürth was arranged to be broadcast live on the free Fifth Channel. Now CCTV's broadcast of the Bundesliga is basically arranged like this. If you want to see the games of other teams on the free channel, there is only one possibility, that is, these teams have become Dortmund's opponents.

Because the free sports channel has the widest coverage and no threshold, such resources, of course, should be reserved for Chinese players. The two-day Bundesliga broadcasts a week, the free channel resources are basically monopolized by Dortmund and Schalke 04. Bayern Munich, which used to be the most popular, now has to rank third.

In the case of today, when the Bayern Munich and Dortmund games are played at the same time, the Bayern Munich game is arranged on the paid Fengyun Football Channel.

For such an arrangement, of course, many Bayern Munich fans are very unhappy, but more fans support it, especially those fans who usually don't watch the Bundesliga very much, but only pay attention to the Bundesliga for Zhou Yi and Yang Muge, and they all raise their hands in support of CCTV's arrangement.

In this game, although Zhou Yi also participated in the game against Atletico Madrid four days ago, and tried his best in the game, playing the whole game, he still started in this game today.

Now Zhou Yi's importance to Dortmund is self-evident.

This is actually why Gotze wants to leave Dortmund. In Dortmund, Zhou Yi is indispensable, but he, Gotze, is not. In some games, Gotze will be rotated, but Zhou Yi will hardly be rotated.