The German club have said they are open to discussing the Japanese international’s departure <\/p>\n
Borussia Dortmund are willing to consider allowing Shinji Kagawa to leave the club, Sporting Director Michael Zorc has suggested.<\/p>\n
The Japanese international is rumoured to be a target for La Liga leaders Sevilla, and recently admitted\u00a0that he has a desire to play in Spain.<\/p>\n
The playmaker had last season cut short by injury and has struggled to regain his starting berth in a hugely impressive Dortmund side, with Marco Reus being coach Lucien Favre\u2019s preferred option in attacking midfield.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n Speaking to\u00a0Ruhr Nachtrichten<\/em>, Zorc confessed that the club were empathetic to Kagawa\u2019s current predicament.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cHe is a deserving player and of course we can understand that the situation is unsatisfactory for him and we will certainly talk about it during the winter break if that’s what we want\u201d.<\/p>\n Kagawa has made just two league appearance this year. As well as Reus, the 29-year-old faces competition from a throng of young attacking talent such as Jadon Sancho and Christian Pulisic.<\/p>\n Recent comments to\u00a0Nikkan Sports\u00a0expressed his wish to pursue first team football, and suggested that Spain would be his destination of choice.<\/p>\n Kagawa called a potential move to Spanish football “the most important challenge in my career”, having already enjoyed stints\u00a0in both England and Germany.<\/p>\n The midfielder has played 216 times for Dortmund over two stints with the club and is under contract at the Westfalenstadion until 2020. He is not the only experienced talent on the periphery of Favre\u2019s plans, however, with Mario Gotze having made just five appearances in the league<\/p>\n As well as supposed interest from Sevilla,\u00a0Kagawa is target for fellow Bundesliga side VfB Stuttgart.\u00a0In light of Kagawa\u2019s comments, Sevilla are justifiably believed to be in pole position for his signature should he leave Germany.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The German club have said they are open to discussing the Japanese international’s departure Borussia Dortmund are willing to consider allowing Shinji Kagawa to leave the club, Sporting Director Michael Zorc has suggested. The Japanese international is rumoured to be a target for La Liga leaders Sevilla, and recently admitted\u00a0that he has a desire to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n