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Robert Lewandowksi has urged Mario Gotze to reject the advances of Liverpool FC and prove himself at Bayern Munich.

Jurgen Klopp is targeting the out-of-favour, World Cup winning midfielder as a priority signing this summer, but Lewandowski, who played for Klopp alongside Gotze at Dortmund before moving to Bayern, says talk of the 23-year-old leaving the Bundesliga champions is ‘silly’.

He said: “Mario proved during the international break that he is always capable of showing what he can do and that he is a great player.

“He should not be reading what people say about him in the papers. He does not need all the extra pressure.

“Mario knows how to deal with it, though. He is used to it. It is silly that there is so much talk about him.

“He is a Bayern player and he has plenty of games left until the end of the season to prove that he is good enough for Bayern.

“He has plenty of time to prove his critics wrong. He should stay at Bayern for a long time because he is a great player.”

Gotze has also been linked with a move back to Dortmund in the summer, with chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke claiming ‘the door remains open’ for the midfielder - but Dortmund fans unveiled a banner telling their former star to ‘p*** off’ this weekend .