Mario Gotze has become the second player in a span of few days to criticize Pep Guardiola after Yaya Toure said the Manchester city Manager does not love black players. Gotze has said the former Bayern coach lacks empathy. The Borrusia Dortmund midfielder also added that he learned everything from Jurgen Klopp
Götze burst onto the scene with Dortmund under Klopp in 2010, winning back-to-back Bundesliga titles in 2010/11 and 11/12, the latter of which brought the double of league and DFB Cup, both at Bayern’s expense.
Götze left for Guardiola’s Bayern in 2013, keen to play under the Spanish tactician, but things failed to work out for the former prodigy who returned to Dortmund in 2016 having only started 59 of a possible 102 Bundesliga matches for the record champions.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Götze today is glowing in his praise of Klopp.
“I’m still in touch with Jürgen,” Götze told DAZN. “Of course, he taught me everything about professional football. At that time, I was just 17 and coming up from the youth team. He introduced me to everything. He let me play.”