Mario Götze's Spell at PSV Eindhoven

It’s the transfer deadline day in the summer of 2020. Whilst everyone was counting down the last few hours of the 31st of August, something popped up on Twitter. A picture, of a person in a big, black car. A local person in Eindhoven quickly took a picture because he was wondering if it could be a new player.

Such a unique car doesn’t drive in the streets of the local snack bar, where the person snapped a photo to find out who was the driver. As you could vaguely see which player it was, the owner of the snack bar quickly called for his daughter to run after the car to try and see who it was, and perhaps give confirmation of the player that was slightly visible in the picture.

The confirmation was given, and it appeared to be the one and only Mario Götze. The German playmaker who scored the winning goal in the World Cup final of 2014 against Argentina. The 5-time Bundesliga champion, 4-time DFB-Pokal winner and the person who brought the World Cup to his home country.

Why was he in Eindhoven, on this day and at this time? That could only mean one thing. “But there is no way he would sign for PSV?”, is what every PSV-fan was wondering at the time.