World Cup Winner Admits He Should’ve Joined Liverpool

Frankfurt midfielder Mario Götze has spoken out about rejecting Liverpool’s approaches for him and has admitted it may have been the ‘wrong decision’.

As a youngster, Götze was tipped to be one of the best players in world football, but an injury-hampered career has meant that he hasn't quite hit the heights that were expected of him.

For many players, scoring the winning goal in the World Cup final would be enough to call it a successful career.

But the 30-year-old will likely be disappointed with how it has all panned out.

Götze moved to Bayern in 2013 following a successful spell at Dortmund, but injuries plagued his three year spell in Munich and he only featured 73 times in 3 seasons.

Liverpool were reportedly interested in bringing Götze to the club in 2016, but the World Cup winner rejected Klopp’s advances in favour of a move back to Thomas Tuchel’s Borussia Dortmund.

"Jürgen was still building something. In retrospect you have to say: Liverpool would’ve been better.”

Klopp turned talents like Mo Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino into world class players during his time at the Reds, and you’d expect he would have done the same with Mario Götze .

In hindsight, a player with injury problems like Götze would not necessarily have been a good fit in Jürgen Klopp’s high intensity, pressing system and could have struggled, had he moved to Anfield in 2016.