“Don’t want to be a burden”
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“I always say that it has to be useful for both. I don’t want to extend if the club has the feeling that it no longer fits,” said Pascal Groß in August with a view to his contract with Borussia Dortmund. According to the matching reports of “Bild” and “Sky”, the signs are currently more of a farewell. The 34 -year -old midfield droutiner is no longer set under coach Niko Kovac this season, which makes it even less likely that an extension option anchored in the contract will take effect.
This is linked to a certain season. This season was only 243 out of 630 possible minutes on the field, twice in the starting eleven, and provided a goal template. Finally, he was only substituted in the final phase five times in a row. In the midfield center, DFB player Felix Nmecha (24) and the experienced Marcel Sabitzer (31) are ahead. Kovac recently referred to the Austrian as “clock as far as the counterpressing and as far as the duel hardness is concerned.”
On the other hand, according to the judgment of the “picture”, the pace at BVB can “no longer go fully.” In the Dortmund Forum, the idea finds the idea that the 16-fold national player, who came from Brighton in 2024, will leave the club in the coming year. “I think his squad place should take over a younger player from next summer,” writes “Borusse91”.
With a view to the season this season, user “Karlkrabbe” says: “It is much too slow for Kovac’s dynamic and fast -paced midfield. His mileage usually fits, but the pace is so clear that it could be pretty tight in the next few weeks.” This should also affect large World Cup opportunities-for the October international matches, he is certainly not nominated due to his status at BVB.
If it no longer fits, there had been Groß himself, it was “the first one who says: ‘Thank you very much, it was fun. Then I go a different way.’ I don’t want to be a burden.