When Borussia Dortmund face Real Madrid in the Champions League final on Saturday night, Mats Hummels and Marco Reus will hope to exorcise the demons of the club's 2013 visit to Wembley.
And this weekend will be the third Champions League final of Can's fascinating career, with Liverpool's 2018 defeat to Real Madrid his second. He will head to Wembley, looking to etch his name into Dortmund folklore and become just the second captain in the club's history, after Michael Zorc in 1997, to lift the European Cup.
It has been quite the ride for Can since leaving Bayern Munich as a Champions League winner in August 2013 to join Bayer Leverkusen as he looked to earn regular minutes in the Bundesliga as a prodigy. The German's first season was spent mainly operating as a make-shift defender as Rodgers experimented with new ways to reignite his side that had fallen by the wayside after challenging for the Premier League in the previous season.
"I am really happy to be here. I know how Juventus play, I watched a lot of the games last season. One of my biggest idols was Zidane who played here too. "I think the first target has to be to win Serie A and then comes the Champions League. That has to be our aim. I am here to help the team."