would give anything to see mats hummels’ twitter likes rn….
Okay guys no need to worry about our best ever defender joining the team that broke our hearts in June
My worst nightmare as a BVB fan
Me ranting about Eddie Diaz
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.
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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
He’ll be a manager by 2028? Not surprised considering we’ve turned into former player turned manager fc 🤣
Not Mats trying to replicate what happened in Dortmund the other day against Madrid 💀
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.
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.