There’s nothing wrong with a friendly handshake, but this is going above and beyond.
Marco Reus is seemingly incapable of greeting his team mates with a simple ‘hello’ or the German equivalent ‘how’s it going?’
The Borussia Dortmund forward, who’d earlier been substituted, walked back onto the pitch to congratulate his teammates after their crucial 4-2 win Mainz on Friday night.
And he wasn’t about to just offer them a good ol’ fashioned firm handshake, a pat on the back and a ‘well done’ for their performances.
No, Reus has instead seemingly concocted an elaborate series of handshakes, each unique to a specific teammate and they verge from lame, to super lame to cringe until your skin falls off level of awful.
First up there’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who gets a handshake followed by a ‘Tim Sherwood’ salute.
Then comes Ilkay Gundogan, who performs a variation on the classic ‘high-five’, before Reus comes to Nuri Sahin and the elaborate handshake to end all elaborate handshakes.
Reus and Sahin’s handshake features some hand claps, chest bumps, fist bumps and peace signs. It has to be seen to be believed.
Reus is clearly a fan of unique handshakes, here he is with former teammate Robert Lewandowski.
Maybe it’s just us, but unless it’s a Stonecutters secret handshake, we not interested.
Hat tip 101 Great Goals.
