Robin Gosens has said goodbye to Bundesliga football club 1. FC Union Berlin and its fans. “Life sometimes forces you to make difficult decisions. Leaving the club – on the last day of the transfer window and on match day at that – is one such decision,” the 30-year-old wrote on Instagram, “but I stand behind this decision. Giving the reasons for it would only end in a justification. And I don’t want that.”
Gosens had left the team for medical tests on Friday before the 2-0 win against FC St. Pauli, the move to the Italian first division club AC Florence was confirmed by Union managing director Horst Heldt shortly before the start of the game.
Most emotional experience of career
The 20-time national player expressed his gratitude for being able to live out his “biggest dream of playing in the Bundesliga” at Union, even though the season had turned out differently than expected. Nevertheless, the Berlin player’s record signing experienced “probably the most emotional thing I’ve ever experienced in football” on the last matchday of the season. A penalty shot by Janik Haberer in injury time saved Union from the threat of relegation in the 2-1 victory over SC Freiburg.
Manager Heldt stressed on Friday that private reasons had been the deciding factor in Gosens’ intention to move. “He always told us that he would like to move if he had the opportunity,” said Heldt about the left-back, who had spent the best part of his career at Atalanta Bergamo and Inter Milan: “And then it doesn’t make sense to keep a player who isn’t really into it.”
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