Where will Brandt play after BVB? ‘I’m ruling nothing out’ | OneFootball

In the 0:1 defeat to Bayer Leverkusen, Julian Brandt was unable to add to his tally in the Bundesliga. A week earlier, he had scored as a substitute for BVB, which saw him climb further up the historic substitute rankings. But his time in Dortmund will end this summer anyway. kicker knows how the player feels about it and what his plans look like.

Julian Brandt received his final polish before making the leap to the professional game between 2011 and 2013 in the VfL Wolfsburg youth setup, which he had joined from FC Oberneuland in his hometown of Bremen. Brandt made his Bundesliga debut not for Wolfsburg, however, but for Bayer Leverkusen after deciding during the 2013/14 winter break to move to the “city of colors.”

In his four and a half years on the Rhine, he not only developed into a regular starter at Bayer. Julian Brandt also became a Germany international after making his debut in May 2016 against France under national team coach Jogi Löw, a match that has since been followed by 47 more international appearances. In 2019, he finally moved to Borussia Dortmund, where after seven years his contract with BVB has now not been renewed.

So a farewell is looming for Brandt, who put up good to very good scoring numbers throughout those years. But many observers often felt he lacked that final edge, especially in tight games at the very highest level, to lift BVB to a slightly higher standard. On his good days, he was certainly capable of doing just that — it’s just that, in the view of his critics, those days came too rarely.

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After seven years, it’s over for Brandt at BVB

But Brandt is not yet in a farewell mood. “At some point you probably do feel a bit sentimental, but right now I don’t feel like I’m on a farewell trip or a farewell tour,” he said yesterday after the match. At the moment, he said, as always when he is doing his job, he is simply “having fun” playing in Dortmund or in the other Bundesliga stadiums.

Of course, with his departure from BVB having been decided some time ago, the question of his new club is also hanging in the air. But that does not seem to be occupying Brandt all that much yet. There are still a few games left to play, and Brandt wants to a) “not rush anything” and b) believes it would not be fair to the club to be constantly holding talks now.

There will still be enough time to think things through once his association with BVB has really come to an end. When it comes to his reorientation, he said he would “basically rule nothing out,” although there are already a few things he would prefer and others he can rather less imagine. But he is by no means at a loss about where his future might take him. There are “lots of ideas.”

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