The trouble is in Germany when Bayern come sniffing around nobody can stop them getting what they want. Nobody has the clout to stand up to them. They are a playground bully that steals your packed lunch. Dortmund have nothing like the financial clout and they are almost powerless to stop them.
It's a long standing tactic of Bayern's to unsettle players from their closest rivals in the table, promise them worldly riches and turn their eye. Yet last year they had the nerve to accuse City of being transfer bully boy tactics.
I can think of the way they plundered the coach plus Ballack and Ze Roberto from Leverkusen, Neuer from Schalke, Dante from Mönchengladbach, Olic and Pizarro from Bremen, Gomez from Stuttgart, and way back Hitzfeld from Dortmund; all because they saw a threat emerging and, because they had the clout to stop them in their tracks, they did. Half of the time they don't even want or need these players. They just do it to nullify any threat to them.
In terms of treachery, it's difficult to actually remember many worse betrayals than this. This is a young lad who was the face of everything that was good about the Dortmund side that Klopp had built from nothing with no money. He was the symbol of a great youth system and of a club that had players that wanted to play for that club as one happy family. He (and soon Lewandowski) have shattered that myth. He signed a huge contract extension last year because he didn't want to play anywhere else. Götze was the defining image of everything that was good about German football. Now he is the image of everything that is bad about German football, because Bayern have no scruples about what they do and how they do it. Never have done, never will do. Crowds across the Bundesliga are going to plummet as the league becomes the biggest one horse procession in footballing history year after year. The moral highstanding of Bayern on world football and the evils of money was all very audible when they were being usurped for the title by a team built on £20 million. But they got scared that they had met their domestic match for once and the best way to guarantee that that club won't dare to make such a threat again is to do what they did to Leverkusen and destroy them from within. Where is their moral highstanding now?
As for that little shit, Götze, Klopp has to be strong and drop him for the rest of the season. His presence is only going to do more harm than good, especially if Dortmund were to meet Bayern in the Final. How can he be trusted to give his all when he's been collaberating with the enemy behind the club's back for these last few weeks?