#4 Mario Gotze – Borussia Dortmund (Jan 2016: €45 million, Now: €20 million)
Decrease in value: €25 million
Hailed as the Golden Boy of Germany, after he won his country the 2014 World Cup with an extra-time winner against Argentina in the final, not all has worked out in Mario Gotze’s favour ever since. He struggled for game time at Bayern Munich under Pep Guardiola before being shipped back to his former club Borussia Dortmund.
Little did he know, that it was all going to go from bad to worse. The 25-year-old struggled to maintain his fitness upon his return to Signal Iduna Park before in March of 2017, he was diagnosed with a metabolic disorder, which threatened to put an early end to his footballing career. Ever since the cause for his metabolic trouble has been identified as myopathy and he is on his road to recovery. Will he become the footballer he was destined to become, we will need to wait and find out but his transfer stock has hit the proverbial ‘rock bottom’.
Trending
