Mats Hummels Leaving for Bayern Would Be Borussia Dortmund’s Biggest Loss Yet

Borussia Dortmund captain Mats Hummels is at a crossroads. Twenty-seven years of age and with the Black and Yellows for eight-and-a-half years now, he has to decide whether he wants to spend the rest of his career at the Westfalenstadion or move elsewhere.

It’s a dilemma the 2014 FIFA World Cup winner has been stewing over for quite some time, as he admitted after the win over Hertha BSC in the DFB-Pokal semi-finals earlier in April:

Mats Hummels to Sky: “I’ve set a date [for my decision], but I’m keeping it to myself. It’s costing me half an hour before bed every night.”

— DW Sports (@dw_sports) April 20, 2016

Since he made that statement, Bayern Munich have emerged as the frontrunner in case he does decide to leave the club.

Hummels joined Dortmund from the Bavarian side in 2008, having spent 13 years at his boyhood club before the move to the Black and Yellows.

Dortmund chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke confirmed what many fans feared in a talk-show appearance on German TV channel Sky on Monday (via ESPN FC): “I believe that if he leaves us, it will be [in the] direction [of] Bayern Munich.”

Bild (link in German), meanwhile, reported “that Bayern are leading the race for his services and that he only needs to put pen to paper on a deal that would offer him an annual basic salary of €10 million, which would match the offer from BVB,” per ESPN FC’s Stephan Uersfeld.

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