Ze Roberto wishes to leave
By: Angela | October 7th, 2008Ze Roberto has been the bright spot in what has otherwise been a dismal season start for Bayern. While he doesn’t get the recognition that he deserves, many moments have made him a true star this season in some very bleak moments. Unfortunately, his contract expires at the end of the season. It’s a player like Roberto that is needed. And while many think he would be an asset to keep, myself included, it’s not written in the stars for the team. Even though, Chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge was prepared to give him a new contract, he won’t have it.
Having recently told Kicker that he wants a new challenge after 10 years in the Bundesliga, which were with Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich, he is looking to leave Europe.
“From my view my time here is over. I want to play for two years somewhere else”
While he has received offers from a few Major League Soccer clubs, it looks as though Roberto may end up wearing the FC Dallas colors next season. Wherever he ends up, I wish him luck.
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Arsenal???
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MoMONEY: I’ve not heard anything about Arsenal, but I know he was looking at the MLS previously.
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Well, let’s just hope he does better than Beckham. Becks is still a world class player and I figured since he was taking a step down into the abyss called MLS that he would run circles around everybody. Boy was I wrong.
Proves that by going to the MLS that a Europlayer can’t half step and expect to do well. Also he can’t win alone either. Watched a couple LAG games and I can only imagine the frustration of being surrounded by well… lesser players.
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“Watched a couple LAG games and I can only imagine the frustration of being surrounded by well… lesser players.”
Are you sure you meant Becks and LA Galaxy, and not Ze Roberto and Bayern.
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Touche’
Hopefully things turn around.
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jocamryn: Becks was brought to do what he did and that was raise awareness of the MLS. I think there were people that expected him to do brilliantly, but he’s surrounded by players, on every team, that aren’t in his class so his playing isn’t what it use to be. BUT he has definitely brought attention to the sport in the US and that was exactly what was wanted from him.
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Ouch Jan
….. we’ll have to see how many people are actual fans of Bayern versus those that are fans of a winning team after this season won’t we? It’s a true test of the ‘fairweather’ fan.Posted from
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FAN Since 1995, just discovered this blog a little while ago.
I think Ze will do better than Becks. He will have less pressure, so he’ll have space to play. I’d expect that there will be no “Breaking News” or celebrity guests accompanying himn to his unveiling. lol
Gosh I’m gonna miss him. I get the FCB German Fan magazine and they had a story on him. Such a down to earth guy, a family man.
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Yet another sad story.
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Well, I’d like to see ze stay at Bayern but if he does go to MLS I hope you’re right Angela and he goes to FC Dallas. Maybe I’m biased since that’s the local MLS team for me here in Fort Worth but maybe not. Anyhow, I think the biggest reason so many were dissapointed in Becham was that they were expecting Ronaldo-like performances from him upon getting to the MLS but thats not Beckhams style or his job on the pitch. He’s delivered on what his “job” is and having seen him play here against FCD you don’t see anything major from him but its the details that show how good he actually is. I don’t know how many of you watch MLS but the passing is HORRIBLE. If you watch when Beckham passes its like those things are laser guided just about always perfect. Anyhow I digress, Ze will come across looking better than Becham if he comes here because he’s a totally different player. Beckham is a utility player and thats about it, he’s there to assist the “exciting” players not to be the exciting player himself. Ze can be both the utility player but can also serve in the “exciting” role as well. And because of this I think he’ll do just fine in the MLS, as long as he can handle all the traveling.
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Ze’s is old and probably does not have a year of high level football left in him. at the begining of this season both Bayern’s director and Ze understood that this would be his last season. he is a hard worker and will be missed.
on another note i was reading German sports news websites and it seems that bad things are happening in Bayern’s dressing room. Podolski is disillusioned which isn’t anything new, but add to that that news is now emerging that Borowski is now Bayern’s “boogeyman” and that he is disliked by most of the squad, this apparently culminated with Rensing giving him an “i want to kill you” stare during a training session and Klinnsman never oversees Bayern’s training sessions and that none of his assistants who over see the training sessions don’t speak German and few players speak English so Training sessions lack co-ordination and look comical because people are communicating using hand signals. van Bommel is laying low to avoid media attention but is not pleased with how he is being treated either. Hopefully the directors step in and solve all of these problems or Bayern may be playing intertoto cup football next season.
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John, no worry, the Intertoto Cup is no more.
I would be careful with those BILD stories. They are always looking to create stories. A while back Timo Hildebrand visited a doctor in Munich and BILD used this as an invitation to speculate “did he really only come to Munich for a doctors appointment??” and turned it into a Hildebrand to Bayern transfer rumor. Same with Borowski here. All I read in the article was highly speculative – they are trying to create evidence trails for one of their theories. Also, the article realistically only points out that Vasquez was explaining things to Borowski in English and nothing more, and neither did the article state that Klinsmann never oversees training sessions. You just need to look at some footage from Bayern’s recent training to see Klinsmann is alive and well: http://www.eyep.tv/1.-bundesliga/fc-bayern-munchen/fc-bayern-internationales-torschusstraining.html
So, I would relax. Unless you hate Klinsmann anyway, then those BILD articles are brilliant stuff to keep the anti-Grinsmann vibe going.
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Whoa, John. That is scary. I mean, I was reading what Klinsmann’s predecessor Ottmar Hitzfeld has to say about Bayern and he is optimistic they will be able to bounce back.
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Damn it, Jan.
Didn’t know you reply earlier than me. I was actually wondering if those stuff came from BILD as well.Or maybe again, I am still in the pro-Klinsmann camp and was like thinking those stuff sounded a little far-fetched.
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Good points Jan. I agree with you. And besides that, we all know van Bommel doesn’t really know how to lay low and definitely doesn’t play the avoidance game…
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i should have said Klinnsmann does not oversee the individual training sessions and that Vasquez who does not speak German cant communicate with the players who don’t speak English or Spanish, so hand signals were used in this case with Borowski. Europolitian also reported the Borowski Rensing stare incident and that Borowski is allegedly not liked by his new teammates that story did not originate with the Build. Rummenigge’s criticism of Podolski and Podolski’s reply are both parts of published interviews. Podolski ending his interview by saying he would look over everything during the Christmas break shows he is still disillusioned with Munich. The German Media wants to talk to van Bommel, but he does not want to talk to them. isn’t it strange that Bayern have not won in four games and not even the official website has done an interview with the captain? Its clear Bayern has problems, a harmonious team made up of mostly internationals does not play the kind of bad football Bayern has been playing and nothings wrong. theoretically Bayern can still win the Bundesliga easily as Hitzfeld and many ex-players have said but theory and reality are always different. as a person who has been following football for more than 12 years i can say from experience that teams either take long periods of time to stop playing bad football or drastic measures are taken to and the teams improves quickly. Despite all of their talk about faith none of Bayern’s directors will wait a whole season to see if things will improve, eventually drastic measures will be taken.
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Nice Blog! Very good Blog!
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Projektowanie Tanich Stron: I am glad you like it!
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