The World Cup winner has endured a difficult second spell back where it all began for him and has been told to consider a switch to Anfield <\/p>\n
Mario Gotze may be struggling to get back into the Borussia Dortmund team, but the midfielder would be \u201ca good fit for Liverpool\u201d, according to former team-mate Kevin Grosskreutz.<\/p>\n
The 2014 World Cup winner returned to his roots at the Westfalenstdion in 2016 after spending three years with Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n
Big things were expected of the 26-year-old star once he was back in familiar surroundings, but a homecoming has become something of a disaster.<\/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 Gotze has struggled for form and fitness since re-signing for Dortmund, with a midweek Champions League outing against Club Brugge\u00a0representing his first start of the 2018-19 campaign.<\/p>\n Former club and international team-mate Grosskreutz feels a fading presence needs a switch to reignite his spark, with Liverpool a logical step due to the presence of Jurgen Klopp.<\/p>\n He told Sky Deutschland<\/em>: \u201cI\u2019m very sorry for Mario Gotze at the moment, because stuff is written about him \u2013 and only him \u2013 every day.<\/p>\n \u201cIn Bruges, for example, the whole team didn\u2019t play well.<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe it would be good for him to go abroad in the winter to find a bit more peace and bring his career back on track.<\/p>\n \u201cKlopp knows him quite well, he would be a good fit for Liverpool.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Grosskreutz, who tasted World Cup glory alongside Gotze four years ago, added: \u201cOf course he has to deliver performances on the pitch. His head is not completely free at the moment.<\/p>\n \u201cI never expected his career to experience such a phase.\u201d<\/p>\n Grosskreutz is not the first to have advised Gotze to look elsewhere for regular game time, with former Germany captain Lothar Matthaus having done likewise.<\/p>\n “His form, which he had before the 2014 World Cup and included his winning goal in the final, is behind him,\u201d Matthaus said.<\/p>\n “For him, you would have to invent a system at Borussia Dortmund that does not exist right now.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The World Cup winner has endured a difficult second spell back where it all began for him and has been told to consider a switch to Anfield Mario Gotze may be struggling to get back into the Borussia Dortmund team, but the midfielder would be \u201ca good fit for Liverpool\u201d, according to former team-mate Kevin…<\/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-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","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=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n