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Big and besieged: When should Arling Holland leave Borussia Dortmund? - Walla! sport

2022-01-18T13:07:03.363Z


All the greats of Europe are many about him, but in none of them does an ideal situation await him. He already wants to upgrade, but Dortmund fits him like a glove next door


Big and besieged: When should Arling Holland leave Borussia Dortmund?

All the greats of Europe are many about him, but in none of them does an ideal situation await him.

He already wants to upgrade, but Dortmund fits him like a glove next door.

Will the Norwegian diamond follow Ambape?

Tonight (21:45, Sports 2) is the first test since the interview that broke the tools

Michael Yochin

18/01/2022

Tuesday, January 18, 2022, 2:00 p.m.

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Summary: Dortmund - Freiburg 1: 5 (Sport 1)

Arling Holland tries very hard to cultivate a positive image - a kind of perfect athlete without behavior problems with a healthy approach to life and a highly developed sense of humor. Absorption of a yellow card in the 88th minute due to anger over an incorrect whistle to the dissident for his taste, while his team leads 1: 5, does not exactly reconcile with this image.



This is what happened when Borussia Dortmund defeated Freiburg last Friday, and it may be a completely negligible event, but on the other hand nothing can be negligible when you are one of the most sought after stars in the transfer market and represented by Mino Raiola. The strange interview at the end of the game emphasized this well.



"You have not talked about my future in the last six months, out of respect for Dortmund, but now the club has started to put pressure on me to make the decision. I just want to play football, but they are pressing, so I will have to make the decision soon," he said.

The Dortmund management reacted with astonishment.

"Arling's statement surprised us because there are currently no deadlines, not even calls. It is clear that at some point we will have to have such calls. It is natural and this is how things go," said CEO Michael Zurk.

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Uncharacteristic quotes.

Arling Holland (Photo: Reuters)

Here one has to distinguish between two types of decision. As far as curious fans around the world are concerned, the main question facing the Norwegian is where to move in the summer. However, for Borussia Dortmund it is not really interesting, as long as it is not Bayern Munich. His contract with the club expires in the summer of 2024, but as of June the release clause will stand at 80 million euros.



This has been known to everyone for a long time, and anyone can put a check on the table and take the player, provided he himself agrees. Borussia has no and can have no influence on the move. Zurek just wants to plan the future properly, prepare professionally and sign a replacement if necessary. For him, the central question is not where Holland will go, but when.



That is, when Holland complains of pressure from his current team, he does not tell of a dilemma between Real Madrid and Barcelona.

It addresses the issue of staying, and if that is the case, then this option is not entirely invalid at the very least.

If he informs the sheriff of his intention to leave, he can quietly choose the preferred destination even after that.

Thus, there is a clear separation between these two issues, and should be addressed first and foremost.

The corona robbed him of contact with them.

Borussia Dortmund fans (Photo: Reuters)

So should Holland leave Dortmund? On the one hand, he has been there for two years now, after moving from Salzburg in January 2020, maintaining an average of more than one goal per game in all competitions, but still not coming close to winning the championship, let alone the Champions League. In the modern world, where the pace is too fast, one can understand why a sense of exhaustion can arise here. As one of the best pioneers in the world, Holland may want to play in one of the leading clubs in the world, where he will have a chance to win all the titles, and even upgrade very financially along the way.



On the other hand, he will only be celebrating his 22nd birthday on July 22, and most of his career is still ahead of him. Right now, he is in a club that suits him like a glove, the momentum is tremendous, and he can be exploited to increase his value more and more. Will this momentum be maintained after the expected transition? No one can be sure, and there is no group that flirts with him in which the situation for his arrival can be defined as ideal.



Moreover - the Corona robbed him of contact with the fans for most of his tenure in Dortmund.

For too long, he has had to play in front of empty stands, which is the case even these days.

Wouldn't it be nice to wait for the end of the plague and enjoy Borussia's amazing fans and its yellow wall in all its glory?

In the long run staying in Paris only benefited him.

Killian Ambape (Photo: Reuters)

One can take as an example the career of the direct competitor of his generation, Killian Ambape. The Frenchman, Hamburg from the Netherlands for a year and a half, joined Paris Saint-Germain in the summer of 2017, and is expected to leave this summer in favor of Real Madrid as a free agent when his contract expires. In his case, in the absence of the release clause, his current club had the power to hold him, and so he did, but in the long run it only benefited Ambape himself.



He enjoyed employment stability, valued only by the Emir, and he did not jump from place to place too fast. He will sign with his dream team at the age of 23, on a mature and very experienced star standard, and will receive dream financial terms on any scale - better even compared to the amounts he could have earned if Real had been required to pay a huge fortune for him.



So true, Ambape plays in a stronger team on paper, wins championships and enjoys more Champions League games, but he does it in a less glamorous league, and his professional challenge in France is low compared to Dortmund's Bundesliga championship ambitions.

Imagine what would happen if in his last season at Borussia the Norwegian managed to interrupt Bayern's championship streak and bring the coveted success to the crowd in yellow-black.

Isn't it worth waiting a bit for this chance?



The fact is that his presence in only the "second" team in Germany did not prevent him from becoming a dominant star on an international scale - he did not earn his current status in a team that did not qualify for either Euro 2020 or the upcoming World Cup.

This class will stand the test when it takes the next step.

There is no reason to fear this test, of course - it is natural and desirable - but timing is certainly critical.

The logical step is to stay another year or two.

Arling Holland and Mino Raiola (Photo: GettyImages)

If he joins Real Madrid, he will in any case be the second most important acquisition in the summer after Ambape, and in the last week there have even been reports that Karim Benzema has informed Florentino Perez that he will leave the Netherlands signed. It does not make much sense to arrive at these circumstances because they may be too toxic. It is better to wait for the Frenchman to get off the stage, and if the Netherlands prefer Real, the wait is welcome for him.



Barcelona? The Catalans will have to make eighths in the air financially in order to fund the purchase, and it is not at all certain that they will be able to meet the task. Even so, he will reach a club in deep crisis, on the standard of the ultimate savior. This role is attractive, of course, but the load of expectations from him will not make sense, and it is also worth remembering what happened to Osman Dembele who came from Dortmund to Barça. Even if the Netherlands prefer Barcelona, ​​it is worth the wait.



Manchester city?

Not entirely sure she is fit for the Netherlands stylistically, after two years in which Pep Guardiola teaches his trainees to play in a lineup without a natural striker.

Even if he wants to sign with the team his father played for, it might be worth the wait.

Manchester United?

With all the managerial mess, mystery when it comes to the identity of the next coach, and the bizarre reports in the tabloids that Ralph Rangnik was promised an oil bonus for signing him, this is certainly not the ideal timing.



In the end, it is clear that the Netherlands will continue to be a "bigger" team than Dortmund, but in the current situation it makes common sense to stay for another year or two.

Fame will not escape him.

Quite the opposite - he may just upgrade even further where he is so appropriate and so revered.

Robert Lewandowski left Borussia as a free agent at the age of 25. He's not sorry he did not do it before, right?

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