He’s Been Called Up Again!

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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

".. doubts internally from some parts of the board about an extension."

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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. 😞

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.

What happened to the gay footballers that were supposed to come out? Did they decide against it last minute? Or was it never actually going to happen? I heard it was supposed to be Bundesliga players mainly, so I’m a fair bit surprised by it not happening, since it would most likely be the best environment for an openly LGBTQ+ player. Best wishes to them, hope they can gain the courage to come out one day

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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? 👀