Borussia Dortmund striker
Ciro Immobile insists
Robert Lewandowski is
now firmly in the club’s
past and is confident of
firing them to success in
future.
Insgine, last season’s top scorer in Serie A,
completed his move to Dortmund from Torino in
June as a replacement for Lewandowski, who has
joined Bayern Munich.
The 24-year-old has urged the club’s supporters
to forget about the Poland international, who
scored 103 goals in four seasons at Signal Iduna
Park, and back him to fill the void in attack.
“Lewandowski is past, I am the future,” said
Immobile at a press conference.
“Lewandowski is a great player. I’ll try to do
my best. Then we will see if I can score more or
less goals than him.
“I am very happy to have arrived at a big club.
So far all expectations have been fulfilled here.
[Head coach Jurgen] Klopp takes me often to
the side, tells me that I should take it easy. I
have a good feeling with the coach.”
The Italian, who was part of his country’s squad
for the World Cup, also revealed that his team-
mates have been helping him to learn German
since his return from Brazil and that his first
phrases were ‘how are you?’ and ‘top scorer’.
Immobile added: “I would like to thank
Sebastian Kehl and my interpreter. From them I
got two notes with the most important coaching
words. I must learn those for tomorrow.”
Dortmund continue their pre-season
preparations with a friendly against Chievo on
Friday.
