Marco Reus to leave Borussia Dortmund at end of the season

Marco Reus will depart Borussia Dortmund on the finish of the season, ending his 12-year spell with the aspect after each events mutually agreed to not prolong the participant’s contract, the German membership introduced on Friday.

The 34-year-old Dortmund academy product rejoined the membership from Borussia Mochengladbach in 2012 and has gone on to make 424 appearances thus far, scoring 168 targets and contributing 128 assists.

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“I am extremely grateful for and pleased with this particular time at my membership Borussia Dortmund” Reus mentioned in a press release.

“I’ve spent greater than half of my life at this membership and loved on daily basis, though there have in fact been troublesome moments too.”

Reus has been a talismanic determine at Dortmund, profitable the DFB-Pokal in 2016-17 and 2020-21 and reaching the Champions League ultimate underneath Jürgen Klopp in 2013.

Dortmund sit fifth within the Bundesliga desk, however have reached the final 4 of the Champions League. They beat Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 on the Westfalenstadion within the first leg of their semifinal on Wednesday.

“I already know now that I’ll discover it troublesome to say goodbye on the finish of the season,” Reus mentioned. “And but I am completely satisfied that there’s now readability and that we are able to focus absolutely on the crucial ultimate video games that we nonetheless must play.

“We have now an enormous goal in our sights that all of us need to obtain collectively. To take action, we are going to want each single one among our unbelievable followers, to whom I want to specific my honest thanks for his or her unbelievable help through the years.”

Dortmund face Augsburg within the Bundesliga on Saturday.