BVB boss Hans-Joachim Watzke about Erling Haaland: We will find the next one

The BVB boss Hans-Joachim Watzke has not shocked or expressed emotionally about the change from Erling Haaland.

The BVB striker will play for Manchester City next season. Watzke already commented on the upcoming change at CNN on April 26th. However, the interview was only released on Monday evening. "We have been playing football in Dortmund for 113 years and 111 years of it we did without Erling Haaland," said Watzke little.

"We had Robert Lewandowski and he left us in 2014. But we played football in 2015, 2016 and 2017 and still play it," he made the comparison with the top striker from FC Bayern. Watzke is not particularly sad about the loss: "Then Pierre -Emerick Aubameyang came and then Erling Haaland and you can be sure - if Erling should decide to leave us - we will find the next one 100 percent."

It was different with another BVB transfer. "It was very emotional for me when Mats Hummels told me in 2016 that he would leave the club after seven or years because it was a long time and we had a very special relationship," recalled Watzke. "But sometimes players are only one or two or three years at BVB and the emotions are not so deep. And in football it is normal for players to come and go if they want," summed up the 62-year-old.

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Borussia Dortmund wants to hire young players with potential anyway and then sell them profitably. "This is the only way for us. If a player shows very strong performances, we are fighting against the very big clubs with the oligarchs and the Arab countries in the back," explains Watzke. "And we can't win this fight. But we can win a fight for an 18-year-old like Jude Bellingham because this player loves to play for Borussia Dortmund because we always have over 80,000 spectators and the club knows how to know how to Trying young players, "the BVB boss remains realistic.