Chapter 189 Exposed

? After discovering that his good friend’s mentality was okay, Zhou Yi could finally prepare for the Champions League semi-finals with peace of mind.

In the first round, Dortmund faced Real Madrid at home, and before that, Bayern Munich faced Barcelona at home.

Everyone is playing at home, and the arrangement of playing home first and then away is not a good arrangement in a general sense, because in the most critical second round, they have to play away, which is very difficult.

German teams have always had an advantage against Spanish teams when playing at home. Whether it is Bayern Munich or Dortmund, if they want to advance to the final, they must play well at home in the first round and try not to lose. Give the opponent a chance to come back to their home court.

This is a theoretical expectation, but in reality there will be a big deviation. It is not easy to really lay the foundation for advancing to the finals in the first round.

Even if Dortmund has beaten Real Madrid at home and away in the group stage, it cannot be concluded that Dortmund can definitely beat Real Madrid in the semi-finals.

The group stage and semi-finals of the Champions League can be said to be completely different events.

If everyone in Dortmund still holds the idea that "beating Real Madrid at home is easy", they might lose instead.

After the game against Mainz, Klopp received questions about the Champions League semi-finals, and everyone's focus was already on the Champions League.

Facing reporters' questions, he seemed very low-key.

"... This is the semi-finals. We were here last season, so we know very well that no team that can reach here can be underestimated. Not to mention that our opponent is Real Madrid. This team The team has a lot of experience in the Champions League. We will go all out and leave the rest to God..."

Klopp's low profile has been interpreted by some media as "humility" or "psychological warfare."

But in fact, Klopp is so low-key because of another concern, that is, after the Gotze transfer incident, he is not able to accurately grasp the team's military morale. This team can beat Phil 6:1 away from home. Especially, you can also win 2:0 at home against Mainz, but will it also be affected against Real Madrid?

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On the evening of April 22, there were less than two days left before the home game against Real Madrid.

The attention of the German domestic media has been attracted by Bayern Munich.

Because tomorrow night, Bayern Munich will face Barcelona at home, and after they finish playing, it is Dortmund's turn.

This is also a strong dialogue. Moreover, Guardiola, the meritorious coach who created Barcelona's dream third team, will take over Bayern Munich next season, which has also added some topics to the confrontation between the two teams.

While everyone was discussing this game, at about 11 o'clock in the evening, a message suddenly appeared on Facebook:

"Breaking news! Gotze will transfer to Bayern Munich after the end of the season! The source of this news is an active player, and the accuracy of the news is absolutely reliable!"

The person who released this news was not an unknown person, but Arnd Ziegler, a famous reporter from WDR Sports. He is not the kind of clown who makes up big news to gain attention, but a serious news practitioner. A well-educated and respectable reporter.

He takes responsibility for every statement he makes, so when he broke the news, it was quickly noticed online.

Ten minutes later, Ziegler's Facebook message was reprinted on the transfer market forum, which is also very famous in the industry.

By this time, although Ziegler had deleted the Facebook post he first posted, it was of no use anymore.

At 11:30, Sky Sports also reported this explosive news online.

At about twelve o'clock, the official Facebook account of Germany's "Bild" reported the news.

The phones of Klopp, Zorc and some of the Dortmund players were off the hook.

Although it is already early in the morning...

Even Zhou Yi was woken up from his sleep by the ringing of the phone.

"I'm really sorry to bother you at this time, Zhou Yi! But... is Gotze really going to Bayern Munich?" The caller was a Chinese reporter.

Zhou Yi, who was woken up, heard that the other party was calling about this problem... He said coldly: "I'm sorry, you dialed the wrong number."

After saying that, he hung up the phone, and then quickly turned off the power of the phone.

At this moment, he didn't care why the news suddenly became known to the media, because isn't this normal? It's quite abnormal that this matter could be hidden for so long before the media knew about it...

He just wants to sleep now.

But after turning off his phone, Zhou Yi couldn't fall asleep.

He tossed and turned on the bed, like making pancakes, and couldn't fall asleep even if he closed his eyes.

In the end, Zhou Yi could only turn over and sit up, gritting his teeth and cursed in the dark:

"Hold!"

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The next day, when Klopp saw his players at the Brackel training base, he realized that the impact of Gotze's transfer on the team might have really begun...

He saw Zhou Yi yawning during the warm-up. This kind of thing was very rare for Zhou Yi.

Not only Zhou Yi, but other players also seemed sluggish during training.

In fact, including him, many people probably didn't sleep well that night.

Many Dortmund fans may feel like the "end of the world" is coming when they wake up.

One of their favorite players, the pride of the South Stand, the most representative talent in Dortmund's youth academy, and the core of German football for the next ten years...Mario Gotze was actually revealed to be transferring to Bayern Munich next season. Already? !

During breakfast, I don’t know how many people broke their cups, and I don’t know how many people were stunned and completely forgot to eat.

Now they can only hope that this is just a hearsay rumor, a "news" fabricated by the media to attract attention before the semi-finals.

There are quite a few people with this kind of mentality. After all, Dortmund's momentum has been so good recently, winning the league championship for two consecutive seasons and reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League for two consecutive seasons. With Zhou Yi, Reus, Gotze and Lewandov The youth storm represented by Ski and others is getting stronger and stronger.

Under such circumstances, how could Gotze go to Bayern Munich? What reason does he have to go to Bayern Munich?

This may be a stunt hyped up by the pro-Munich media, or, more conspiratorially, a despicable trick deliberately carried out by Bayern Munich in order to influence Dortmund's military morale.

There is a break clause in Gotze's contract with Dortmund. This is no secret. Judging from Gotze's current performance, 37 million euros is not an astronomical figure.

Of course, Bayern Munich can directly offer 37 million euros, bypass Dortmund and negotiate terms directly with Gotze. But Dortmund fans firmly believe that Gotze will reject Bayern Munich without hesitation.

Because Dortmund is so proud, there is no reason to go to arch-rival Bayern Munich.

But on the morning of the 23rd, an official statement from Dortmund shattered the illusions of all those lucky Dortmund fans.

Dortmund issued a statement on its official website, admitting that Gotze informed the club a few days ago that the buyout clause would be activated. But at the same time, they also said that so far they have not received a transfer request from Bayern Munich.

As soon as the news came out, it completely detonated the emotions of Dortmund fans.

Dortmund's official website was flooded with a large number of Dortmund fans who left messages under this statement to express their disappointment with Gotze and their anger with Bayern Munich.

Due to the large number of fans flooding the website to leave messages in a short period of time, Dortmund's official website crashed.

Subsequently, at noon, Bayern Munich officially issued a statement admitting that they had reached an agreement with Gotze. At the same time, they explained why they have not submitted an application to activate the buyout clause to Dortmund officials so far. Considering that the Champions League semi-finals of the two teams are about to begin, in order not to interfere with each other's preparations, they decided to play in the semi-finals. Apply to Dortmund after the first leg.

Both Dortmund and Bayern Munich have issued official official statements. The transfer of Gotze to Bayern Munich is considered a certainty, there is no doubt.

All good luck was in vain.

Dortmund fans were in hell, while Bayern Munich fans were overjoyed. They never expected that when they woke up, the club would give them a big gift - they actually poached Dortmund's most proud genius player Gotze. !

For two consecutive seasons, Bayern Munich has been suppressed by Dortmund in the domestic league. Dortmund's youthful storm has made Bayern Munich fans a little envious. It is not that no one has tried to poach people from Dortmund, but it is just a fantasy and a daydream. .

Now, Hoeness has actually helped them turn their daydream into reality!

Of course, it would be better if Zhou Yi was poached...

Maybe it’s not that Bayern Munich doesn’t want to poach him, but that the contract Zhouyi signed with Dortmund is different from Gotze’s. He also has a break clause, and the amount of the break clause is less than Gotze’s 37 million euros - yes Thirty million euros - but this clause does not take effect before a certain day of a certain month of a certain year, but only when the last year of the contract is left. So even if Bayern Munich wants to use the break clause to poach Zhou Yi, It’s impossible to do it, it’s still early before the last year of the contract... (To be continued.)