The Offseason…
By: Angela | May 22nd, 2008The season is over and things are getting… weird. Crazy. Rumors are flying. Now that the season is over, we have incoming Borowski from Werder Bremen. Jan Schlaudraff is on his way out. Yesterday Bayern’s second string took on Indonesia and won 5-1. Jan is going out in style with another 3 goals scored while Breno Borges and Toni Kroos each scored one.
The latest news: Kolkata police will be sporting the Bayern Munich logo. Bayern has authorized Kolkata Police to use their logo to popularize street football in the city. On May 28, the 2008 tournament will take place at Bodyguard lines in south Kolkata and will be inagurated by Oliver Kahn.
Lukas Podolski has said that he’s not making a decision about his future until after the Euro’s. For now, he wants to concentrate on those and he will decide his future after that. He’s said that he had a “positive” talk with Jurgen Klinsmann and he knows what direction he wants to take the team in, but that he will wait awhile for his decision.
Michael Rensing will step up into the number one spot for Goalkeeper next season so the search is on for a back up keeper. The current name being dropped is Hans-Jörg Butt. He currently has a contract with Benfica, but his agent has said they aren’t ruling anything out.
Latest transfer rumor is that Juventis is looking to pick up Bastian Schweinsteiger. Speaking of transfers, Gattuso has closed the doors on the speculation that he may come to Bayern. He has publicly admitted that while he had some problems with his club, he will close out his career with AC Milan. He doesn’t look to play much longer and is happy to play there for the remainder.
And while Luca Toni says he will stay with Bayern and is very pleased with his debut season, Marco Amelia would gladly join Toni at Bayern too.
“There is a very good chance that I will leave Livorno this summer,” said Amelia.
“I don’t think the club will be relying on me in Serie B but for now all I am thinking about is the national team.
“Me and Toni at Bayern Munich? I wish, if they call me I will run there.”
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“positive” talk with Jurgen Klinsmann
Is it really doing good for Poldi?Since Toni and Klose will be here still
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I honestly believe its best if he moves on. With Toni and Klose, Podolski hasn’t had much of a chance and when he has, he hasn’t formed the best dynamic with his strike partner. Klose and Toni just have -it- when they’re on the pitch together.
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Here’s where I disagree with you rather strongly Angela. If Podolski stays on under Klinsmann, his goal scoring will be in the teens next season. The tactical shift we see in Bayern next season will benefit Podolski far more than anyone else in the squad. It’s also better for him: right now, he would command something like 10m Euros for a transfer fee, which is exactly what he was bought for. If he has another season like this one, his value will be relatively unchanged; if however, he performs the way I expect him to, he’ll have one more year left on a contract at Bayern and suddenly talks of 25m Euro transfers to England. Oh and the prospect of Toni turning 32 and 31 respectively. He stands to make a lot of money whether he transfers or stays. Add to that the fact we’ve now seen two consecutive seasons where Klose is only able to put together about half of a decent campaign, and I think both the fans AND Podolski himself should want him to be back for next season.
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Toni turning 32 and Klose turning 31..I really need to copy edit
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Meanwhile on the topic of GKs, I brought up Butt on one of our comment strings a couple months back–so I’m glad to see I have some predictive ability! He would be fine, I also think Schwarzer would have worked well. I think another name we may start hearing is Simon Jentzch. I think he would also be suitable, and he has the Berni Dreher aspect of having played for Uerdingen!
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Poldi absolultely, positively must leave to resart his career. Will he? of course not. If you are a player of his status, and also happen to be German, the popular sentiment is that you belong in Bayern. Plus Klinsi could persuade almost anyone to play in Muncih.
Can’t see Rensing staying as the Number 1 for long. He’s good, he’ll probably get better, but he’s not good enough for FCB right now.
Of course I think Boro made the wrong decision, but at least he made it early and kept everything out in the open, unlike the previous Bremen to Bayern mover.
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Luke: I don’t think that the change in Klinsi will be enough for Poldi. Of course I hope I’m wrong, but his inability to mesh with Toni and his inability to be consistent has me thinking otherwise. He’s been far too selfish this season. If that changes, then maybe he can at least with work Toni, but so far, I haven’t seen him do anything that convinces me otherwise. And you were spot on about Butt.
Brian: Rensing is good, he will get better, but I think he lacks the confidence needed to be Bayern’s consistent No 1. We’ll have to see where things go. In regards to Boro: I think the more players we get, the more this is starting to look like the National Team that was ruled by Klinsi…. And I will keep my comment to myself on the latter part of that sentence.
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