体坛英语新闻：News Analysis: Dortmund's future, Klopp's new team without Reus and Weidenfeller

BERLIN, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- 2014 will most possibly be a year without a title for Juergen Klopp and Borussia Dortmund - nevertheless it will be one of the most important years in the club's history.

Nobody really expects the 2013 Champions League finalist to play a major role in this season's edition - despite the fact that Dortmund has reached the next round after their last match in Group E on Tuesday against the Belgian side RSC Anderlecht (1-1) as table toppers. It allows Dortmund to avoid the so-called big boys like Real Madrid and Chelsea in the first knock out round.

2014 will be the year when Borussia Dortmund has ceased to exist in the way, shape and form we have come to accustom them. And it will be the year in which Klopp has had to start building a new team to overcome a big football-crisis that revealed several areas for concern.

In trying to replace Robert Lewandowski, Klopp has not been very successful with his transfers (Immobile, Ramos, Ginter, Sahin) so far. And - maybe more important - Klopp has to start the remolding of his squad much earlier than he and the club officials ever thought.

And on top of everything he has to rethink how he will go about managing his team in the future. Times of the well-known Dortmund comfort zone will be over. Klopp will be less "matey" with his players mate and more of a coach that will make sure he keeps a healthy distance to his team.

Klopp has to build a team that is able to satisfy expectations of being a part of Europe's elite start a new attempt to again become the biggest rival for Germany's No. 1, Bayern Munich.

Klopp will have to do that without Marco Reus and Roman Weidenfeller. Weidenfeller, who lost his place in Dortmund's goal after ten years last week, was on Klopp's list to be replaced as the keeper (after a long World Cup as Germany's No. 2) turned 34 last summer and has been in the middle of a personal crisis lately. The man for the future will be the Australian Mitchell Langerak (26).

To replace Weidenfeller was Klopp's first clear signal that times have changed in Dortmund.

Reus most possibly will leave the club of his childhood town Dortmund next summer for 25 million euro, the sum that has been written into his contract.

The 25-year old Reus is - according to rumors - on the list of several big European clubs as Barcelona (he has been a fan since he was a little boy), Real Madrid (as Real coach Carlo Ancelotti has made it clear several times that he is a great fan of Reus), Manchester City and Bayern Munich.

The German tabloid "Bild" this week suggested that Reus's direction would most likely be Spain as Reus has hired a teacher to give him lessons in Spanish.

The Hamburg-based news-magazine "Spiegel" revealed that Bayern Munich won't sign Reus after a secret deal between Bayern's CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Dortmund club boss Hans-Joachim Watzke in December 2013.

At the time Bayern Munich was about to sign Dortmund's striker Robert Lewandowski. In return to Dortmund agreeing to let Lewandowski go, Rummenigge is said to have promised not to reach out his hands for Reus.

The Reus part of the deal is not approved by either Dortmund or Bayern. Meaning: Bayern could still be interested.

Disregarding the agenda of the summit, Klopp will soon start to think about how to spend the 25 million Euros. And maybe some more of his squad will share the fate of Weidenfeller.

During the next months, players like midfielder Nuri Sahin (returned from Real Madrid in the winter break 2012/2013), striker Ciro Immobile (joined Dortmund last summer from Italian side Torino), defender Matthias Ginter (came from the German Bundesliga rivals SC Freiburg), striker Adrian Ramos (came from German side Hertha BSC), Henrikh Mkhitaryan (2013 from Schachtar Donezk), defender Kevin Grobkreutz and midfielder Shinji Kagawa (returned from Manchester United) will come under close scrutiny.

In the game against Anderlecht Klopp gave key-players like Mats Hummels a break as the 2014 World Cup winner has suffered various injuries and Klopp needs his ability to lead the team for the next games in the Bundesliga before the upcoming winter break.

Klopp simply has to concentrate on climbing back up the Bundesliga. Dortmund is currently ten points behind the qualifying places for next season's Champions League campaign.

And as far as the new man in Dortmund's goal - Mitchell Langerak - was concerned in the Anderlecht game, Klopp's decision seems to be the right one. Enditem