New Eintracht Frankfurt signing Mario Götze has been honest in admitting he probably should have joined Liverpool in the past.
After spending two seasons in the Eredivisie with PSV Eindhoven, the 30-year-old returned to Germany in the summer window. He’d joined the Dutch club as a free agent in 2020, after his second spell with Borussia Dortmund came to an end.
Götze came through the ranks of BVB’s youth system and made his way into their senior team in 2009. The current Liverpool manager, Jürgen Klopp, was in charge at the Signal Iduna Park, and handed the player his first team debut for Dortmund.
The attacking midfielder played for four years under Klopp at BVB before moving to Bayern Munich in 2013. Götze spent three years with the Bundesliga winners before returning to Dortmund in 2016.
Klopp had left BVB a year before that and months later, he took charge of the Merseyside club. The Reds boss was reportedly keen on reuniting with Götze at Liverpool, with the player deciding against it.
In this week’s edition of SportBild, he details the reasons for rejecting his former manager and the Reds.
“Liverpool had finished eighth in their first season with Jürgen and had not qualified for the Champions League. Even in previous years, it wasn’t the club that always played at the top,” Götze said.
“Dortmund had previously played a top season under Thomas Tuchel. BVB was on the up. Jürgen was still building something. In retrospect you have to say: Liverpool would have been better.”
