The Germany global was rumoured to be of interest to Italian champions Juventus.
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However, now in his third season in Munich, Gotze revealed the thought of leaving never crossed his mind, although he did concede that being overlooked for big matches hasn’t been easy for him.
The former Borussia Dortmund star has since undergone further medical tests and Bayern have confirmed it could be January 2016 before Gotze can play again. I would love to be the face of Bayern.
Arsene Wenger’s troops face Bayern in back-to-back European games, which are both deemed must-wins for the Gunners in their search of qualifying for the knockout stages.
Gotze’s injury rules him out of the remaining Champions League group stage games, with Arsenal up next for Bayern Munich at the Emirates Stadium on October 20.
“I never wanted a transfer”. There may well have been other clubs interested in me but I had no interest in leaving Bayern.
The player expressed regret over that period, not least allowing a negative public perception of his transfer to develop.
“I made my own mistakes but I’ve also had to withstand a lot of things that have been twisted,”he told Suddeutsche Zeitung”.
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“The people probably thought “He signed for Bayern just because of the money”, he said”. I should have stated my sporting reasons to end all the speculations. “It would all have ended if I’d done that but I didn’t and left room for interpretation”. “I was hurt with my body, and then I was sad when it became clear that I could not play the final in London”.
