İlkay Gündoğan

[Catta]

It's almost like Barca wants controversy. You could almost get the idea that this is all a plan to destroy our clubs reputation from the inside. From the best club team in history to a laughing stock and one of the most hated clubs in the last couple seasons.

 

[Hamzah]

To be fair to gundogan and ozil, the use of the word “our” wasn’t that bad. Just because you’re born and raised in Germany doesn’t mean you forget all about your motherland and act like is not part of you.

 

[DonAK]

To be fair to gundogan and ozil, the use of the word “our” wasn’t that bad. Just because you’re born and raised in Germany doesn’t mean you forget all about your motherland and act like is not part of you.

They should have represented their motherland then.

 

[Hamzah]

It’s not like they don’t use “our” if they had a picture with merkel, they probably identify with both countries

 

[Blaugrana Bull]

"Our president". You cannot say that if you play for the German national team. There is no problem with their heritage and their love for Turkey but the personal words for Erdogan are something different. And Erdogan is not just some foreign leader but a dictator who has imprisoned several German journalists who did nothing wrong. Simply took away their human rights and threw them in prison.
It was a huge fuck up by Özil and Gündogan and how the handled the whole situation afterwards was probably even worse. Huge PR disaster by them personally and the DFB too.

 

[DonAK]

It’s not like they don’t use “our” if they had a picture with merkel, they probably identify with both countries

Dude, the guy called German gov officials and press for nazis.

You cannot go, take a photo with him, call him for your leader and expect people to be okay with that.

 

[Hamzah]

You’re right, I didn’t know erdogan was so hostile to Germany, that makes things different

 

[Joan]

If they are not Turkey citizens, how can they be their president? Shameful.

Especially since it's Erdogan who treated Germany poorly.

 

[Givenchy]

I am really annoyed that we do not seem to be able to complete a normal big name transfer anymore.
Neymar, Suarez, Coutinho, Dembele. Money issues and some illegal transactions, a player getting suspended for 4 months and two players striking their way out of their old clubs. And almost Griezmann. It is insane. And now we are linked to Gündogan as soon as he has his PR fiasco with Erdogan. His and Özil's fuck up is one of the no.1 topics in Germany right now and a huge distraction for the national team. One week later he is linked to Barca...

tbf thats probably how Barto and the gang actually found out about him

 

[GOAT_SUAREZ]

If they are not Turkey citizens, how can they be their president? Shameful.

Especially since it's Erdogan who treated Germany poorly.

because they are dumb simple.

 

[Jägermeister]

If they are not Turkey citizens, how can they be their president? Shameful.

Especially since it's Erdogan who treated Germany poorly.

I assume they have to passports?!

 

[Joan]

I assume they have to passports?!

According to transfermarkt, no.

 

[Jägermeister]

According to transfermarkt, no.

Okay.. apparantly Özil retired his turkish citizenship when he turned 18. Doesn‘t really matter in the end since they obviously identify with Turkey, two passports or not.

 

[Blaugrana Bull]

Embracing their heritage is not the problem. The words on the signed shirt and personal praising of Erdogan are.

 

[mia7007]

I assume they have to passports?!

They can’t. You cannot have German passport with any other passport