Mbappé abandoned. - Immediately renew Terzic's contract.
Mats Hummels (35), leader of the Pott-Klub, is steering Borussia Dortmund into their third Champions League final in the club's history. The only thing missing now is a chance for revenge against Bayern reminiscent of 2013 - let's not mess up the "German final"!
Söder is playing mind games with the 99% chancellor candidate Merz. To be honest, Dortmund reaching the final this season was as likely before and during the season as Germany importing 20,000 Botswana elephants...
Dortmund struggled both nationally (24 points behind champions Bayer) and in key top games against Leverkusen, Stuttgart, and Leipzig (1 win against Bayern). The trauma of the previous season still haunted Haller and the gang.
Dortmund's prescription for relief: E-U-R-O-P-A!
The start of the premier league season was discouraging: Ludwigshafen trounced Dortmund 0:2. This was followed by a scoreless tie against AC Milan. Edin Terzic (41): "We were done after the second game..."
Terzic was close to being a casualty: almost sacked in the winter, hanging on until the final at Wembley (June 1). Unbelievable!
How did this happen? Because his team suddenly transformed into an efficient mortician in Group of Death F (Newcastle, Milan, Paris) and then slugged their way through Europe. In the league, they often played too timidly and without a plan, but internationally they were all business.
This Euro season NEEDS to serve as a template for Dortmund's next Bundesliga campaign!
Dortmund's Wembley madness! Consequences: Terzic is now part of the "Trio Finale"!
Through the semi-final triumph over Paris (1:0 and 1:0), he has joined the illustrious company of Ottmar Hitzfeld (75) and Jürgen Klopp (56). Only Hitzfeld (1997/3:1 against Juventus) has won the championship. If Terzic pulls off this coup, BVB fans will deem him divine, and even Klopp might be envious.
It's clear since Paris: Terzic's contract extension (currently until 2025) will be a mere formality! New sporting boss Lars Ricken (47) should make this decision immediately, not in Fall as initially planned.
Kylian Mbappé's (25) dreams of triumphing in Champions League have come true, and Terzic deserves a new contract - right away! This will silence the chatter about his persona.
As for the other contract issue, it's more challenging: What will happen to Hummels (contract expires) from the summer?
A contentious issue that's divided Dortmund for months. Cheap because he only earns around 6 million euros and is still a bargain. But hazardous on the pitch - and in the dressing room: he did not hesitate to flatten a young player after a mistake against Leverkusen (1:1) and tussled with Terzic. 'Lack of impulse control,' 'too headstrong,' is the sentiment about the Wold Cup winner from the club.
It's a shame, as Hummels' wisdom and mindset would make him the ideal mentor for BVB's rising stars for the next season. Perhaps Ricken, sporting director Sebastian Kehl (44), and CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke (64/"I'm overjoyed for my standards!"), along with Hummels, can resolve this. The Champions League win could soothe everyone involved.
As outgoing legend Marco Reus (34) states: "Now we have to bring home the trophy, too - or else that would be terrible!"
How can Dortmund's extraordinary dissimilarity between the league and Champions League be accounted for? Even the bosses themselves don't have a definitive answer.
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Source: symclub.org
