His goal rate for the national team is exceptionally good – and yet Niclas Füllkrug will be sitting on the bench for the opening match of the European Championship against Scotland. The fact that he does not mind this situation is also due to his special biography.
Niclas Füllkrug did not have to reveal what he thought about his club’s intensive efforts to acquire a new centre-forward and goalscorer at the press conference in the national team’s quarters on Monday – nobody asked him about it. If anyone had wanted to know, he would certainly have received a calmly worded answer. Borussia Dortmund’s very specific interest in acquiring Stuttgart’s top scorer Serhou Guirassy is unlikely to have escaped Füllkrug’s notice, but the 31-year-old attacker is in far too good a mood at the moment to let the unsentimental customs of the football business spoil his fun. BVB may be issuing a kind of vote of no confidence in him by courting Guirassy – but Niclas Füllkrug is far too happy about his late-career fortune to want to deal with his insult now.