Shinji Kagawa has rejoined Borussia Dortmund on a four-year deal.Borussia Dortmund have resigned Shinji Kagawa to a four-year deal, to free the 25-year-old Japanese midfielder from his Manchester United misery.
If the reported fee of around 8 million euros is correct, it is about half the price the Premier League club paid for Kagawa two years ago. BVB fans are celebrating the deal with joy and excitement, as the fan favourite returns to the Westfalenstadion.
This is a transfer with sentimental value. "The door is always open for Shinji," said Dortmund CEO Hans Joachim Watzke when Kagawa left in 2012, maybe with the intuition that he wouldn't find the success he was looking for in England.Kagawa was one of the leading figures in Dortmund's rise to the top of German football, part of the team that won the club's first Bundesliga championship in 15 years and, the season after, the league and cup double. Thus the shy Kagawa always was remembered fondly by fans and many were wishing for a return at some point.
In his first spell at the club, nobody expected the young kid from Cerezo Osaka, who initially cost Dortmund the ridiculous amount of 350,000 euros due to a buyout clause, to have the impact he had. His ability was confirmed on Match Day 4 of 2010-11, as Kagawa scored a brace in the Revierderby vs. Schalke.
From that moment, Dortmund and Kagawa was a love story that lasted two seasons -- or one and a half to be exact, as the midfielder missed the second half of his first campaign due to a broken foot picked up during the Asian Cup -- and provided 28 goals and 16 assists in 79 games from the No. 10 position.
But three titles and Champions League football at BVB weren't enough glory for Kagawa, who dreamed of bigger and better things and, having grown up watching the English Premier League, made a move over to Manchester.
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