So finally they found out what the hell is wrong with him. A metabolism disorder leading to phlegmatic behaviour and fat slobdom.

feel for him and hope he can recover from this

BVB and Gotze seem optimistic he can with the correct treatment

if he doesn't he may go down as the biggest waste of talent in quite some time

projected to supserstardom, scoring the WC winner..etc all downhill since

He was looking so good before, hope he comes through.

You're an athlete for a living. How do you manage to get fat? I have metabolism issues too now and, believe me, unless it's acute, it's not really a problem. You just need to be careful. You figure out what works for you and then you stick with it. Takes some sacrifice... but I did it and I wasn't paid millions of dollars to do it either.

lmao sports you don't even know what you're talking about.

I was making a joke.

The club statement says they found a metabolism disorder which makes it necessary for him to stop training ASAP. nothing to do with him becoming fat.
Metabolism disorder can mean all kinds of stuff, noone knows what exactly it is.

There are over hundreds of metabolic disorders and until Dortmund do not disclose which one it is it is frivolous commenting or speculating on Götze, his condition and outcome.

^Exactly this. Arq tells it like it is.

the only news I could find on him since he was sidelined is from yesterday..links to Loserpool, likely just lazy journalism

I hope he can recover from this because as it stands he's likely to go down as the biggest waste of supposed talent in my lifetime, like I mentioned before. But since the news seems to quiet on him i can only assume they haven't found out wtf is wrong exactly yet.

There was news in Germany about him though.. namely that he didn't travel to Berlin with the rest of his team to witness the Cup Final, when even Weigl with a broken ankle came.
Instead he stayed in 'Bavaria to continue his treatment'.

BVB boss Watzke was quoted recently as saying "I'm under the impression that, after difficult weeks, Mario is starting to see the light at then end of the tunnel", and the club claims Götze is expected to return to the team in summer.

'Metabolism disorder'.. can't help but think it has to be a depression.

Guys its mostly confirmed to be a Myopathy in which muscle fibres do not connect and function correctly to which signals the obvious and is quite dangerous at times. Specifically it hasn't been confirmed given many genotypes exist but obvious Götze/Dortmund wanted it confidential and I'm confident he will be back.

is he the biggest flop in modern history? was supposed to be the prince that was promised, mentioned in the same tier as Neymar etc when he's actually Jay Rodriguez tier

how is he viewed in Germany nowadays? Hans/Zigra pls respond

his career was derailled by injuries, we all saw the talent when he was young, and the performances too. Same with Reus. These guys were not like the overhyped youngsters of today, they were playing a CL final at 20 or what not.

The Bayern move in connection with that mysterious performance-hampering muscle disease ruined him as a top prospect.
He's since been downgraded to a very good, but somewhat unremarkable, attacking midfielder. Think the German Isco. His career is not over yet, at all.

He has been playing really well since returning, not finished at all. Reckon that once Dortmund settle with a new coach, he will thrive again.

Firenze wrote:is he the biggest flop in modern history? was supposed to be the prince that was promised, mentioned in the same tier as Neymar etc when he's actually Jay Rodriguez tier

how is he viewed in Germany nowadays? Hans/Zigra pls respond

Yeah cus Jay Rodriguez was one of the best players of a CL final reaching team.

Goatse would flop in the PL and you know it, Jay Rod thrived for a season or two. If anything I'm being disrespectful to J-Rod.

Reus, Gotze, Draxler, Schurrle

None of them managed to become elite

Yet all of them have a World Cup winners' medal

Think he was coming off the bench when Dortmund had to play a proper BREXIT team like Spurs.

Kinda sad how far he's fallen. Would be a great player for Soton

Did good in the Eredevise, is back home in Germany now.
Kinda hyped for his Eintracht days.