Borussia Dortmund defender Neven Subotic has said he will hold talks with the club this summer after a difficult first season under Thomas Tuchel. Subotic, 27, found himself behind Mats Hummels and Sokratis Papastathopoulos in the pecking order after Tuchel replaced Jurgen Klopp last summer and he started just five league games for BVB, who finished runners-up to Bayern Munich in both the Bundesliga and DFB Pokal. The centre-back, who missed the final weeks of the season with a thrombosis in his arm, told Ruhr Nachricten: "I have been a footballer for a decade. This was the first one in which I had very little playing time." The former Serbia international said he had seen a former Dortmund teammate, Florian Kringe, undergo a similar experience but had nevertheless remained "entirely at the service of the team" and added: "Florian was a good role model for me." He said his job had been "to put players under pressure so that they give their best" and that, since Dortmund had enjoyed a "phenomenal season," he must have done his job well. However, he said: "My demands on myself are higher, of course. I did not become a footballer to earn my money on the bench. I want to play. I think if you know anything about me, you'll know I'm a fighter." Subotic, who was linked with a reunion with Klopp at Liverpool earlier in the season, has already said he would be keen to play in the Premier League if he were to leave Dortmund. Borussia captain Hummels will leave the club for Bayern this summer, though, and Subotic said he not made any firm decision at this stage. "I appreciate the team as well as the club and its surroundings very much," he said. "In the summer break we will certainly talk. Then I have to look at what the club want me to do and if that fits with my ideas. If that is not the case, you have to have an open mind. But we are not there yet." He said he laughed about speculation over his future, adding: "What is written is significantly ahead of where I am in terms of my plans."
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