Blow for Liverpool as Dortmund star reveals destination of interest
Mats Hummels has dealt a blow to Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool by revealing he wants to leave Borussia Dortmund for Bayern Munich.
Hummels would join a series of players to move to Dortmund’s rivals over the recent years, with Mario Gotze and Robert Lewandoski choosing the same path.
It’s been a disappointing season for Dortmund, they’re out of Europa and look set to miss out on the league, with Bayern ahead of them. Now Hummels has requested to move to Bayern at the end of this campaign, with the Dortmund confirming this earlier on in an official club statement posted online.
The statement also confirmed that Hummels has no release clause in his contract,
It said: “The player Mats Hummels informed Borussia Dortmund that he wishes to leave the club in order to join FC Bayern Munich with effect from the 2016/2017 season.
“Against this background the management of Borussia Dortmund has decided that the realization of such a transfer shall depend on the condition that Bayern Munich provides Borussia Dortmund with an extremely valuable offer which reflects the high importance of the player in soccer and other terms for Borussia Dortmund. At present no offer at all has been made by Bayern Munich yet.
“By a way of precaution Borussia Dortmund likes to emphasise that one has not agreed an “exit clause” with the player – also not with any other player of Borussia Dortmund at present – and the player is therefore bound by his employment contract with Borussia Dortmund until June 30, 2017 at latest.”
The 27-year-old has been at Dortmund since January 2008, playing 297 times and scoring 25 goals.
He joined from Bayern, where he made only two first-team appearances, mainly playing for the reserve side between 2005 and 2008.
Hummels has played 46 times for Germany, scoring four times, and was part of the 2014 World Cup-winning side in Brazil.
This is a difficult blow for Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp, who were hoping to lure the defender to Anfield with the attraction of being able to play under Klopp again.
By Ben Kelly – @benkelly_10
