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Celtic interested in Van Buyten
2008-01-11 18:47:00 Bayern Munich defender Daniel van Buyten is being lined up as a potential transfer window target by Celtic . The player?s agent has revealed that the Glasgow giants have shown an interest in the Belgian defender. 29-year-old van Buyten has struggled to make an impact at Bayern this season with only five starts to his name in the ... More About: Transfers , Eres
Team news: Van Buyten back, Ribéry in France
2008-01-11 09:00:00 Thursday was a varied day at Bayern, with new technology in training, the latest from the sick bay, and good news for the Ribéry family. Willy Sagnol parked up at the Säbener Strasse as normal on Thursday afternoon, only to do a double take and stop in his tracks at the sight of a pole with ... More About: News , France , Team , Back
Friendly: FC Augsburg 1 - 2 FC Bayern
2008-01-10 18:03:00 Bayern won their first friendly of the mid-season training period on Wednesday evening, goals from Luca Toni and Miroslav Klose sealing a 2-1 victory over Bavarian neighbours FC Augsburg which also featured a 45-minute run-out for new signing Breno. The one negative on an otherwise heartening occasion for the men in red saw keeper Oliver Kahn ... More About: Video , Bayern , Friendly
New year, new start for Sagnol
2008-01-10 16:28:00 Bayern Munich fullback Willy Sagnol is looking forward to the second half of the Bundesliga season hoping that it represents a new start for him following a long spell out through injury. The 30 year old French defender has spent the last eight months on the sidelines with cartilage damage and fell out with coach ... More About: New Year , Start , Year
Hiddink: No contact with Bayern
2008-01-10 15:36:00 Russian national team coach Guus Hiddink has played down reports linking him with the Bayern Munich job, stating he has not been contacted by the Bavarian giants. With experienced tactician Ottmar Hitzfeld due to leave the 20-time Bundesliga champions at the end of the season, speculation has been rife on who may take over. Russia coach Hiddink, ... More About: Contact
Heldt hits back at Hoeness
2008-01-10 15:23:00 Stuttgart director of sport Horst Held t has reacted angrily to claims from Bayern Munich he has attempted to unsettle striker Lukas Podolski. Heldt recently admitted his club would be interested in signing the Germany striker which drew criticism from his counterpart at Bayern, Uli Hoeness. Hoeness was furious with Heldt for openly discussing a player who still ... More About: Transfers , Back , Hits
Zé Roberto injured in training
2008-01-09 20:21:00 There’s no such thing as an “easy” training session at FC Bayern. Veteran Zé Roberto injured his ankle during Tuesday’s session. The midfielder fell to the ground holding his left ankle after a duel with Mark van Bommel at FCB’s training grounds at the Säbener Strasse in Munich. Immediately, players, officials and Head Coach Ottmar Hitzfeld ... More About: Training , Raining , Injured
Klose hungry for success
2008-01-09 19:22:00 Miroslav Klose wants Bayern to recapture their sparkling early-season form and bring him a first-ever winners? medal. ?We lost the dominance we had at the start of term,? the Germany striker admitted on Tuesday. Bayern scored just four goals in their last seven Bundesliga fixtures before Christmas. ?We were too predictable, which is something we have to change as fast ... More About: Success , Hungry
Hoeness slams Stuttgart
2008-01-09 04:07:00 Bayern manager Uli Hoeness has hit out at his Stuttgart counterpart Horst Heldt for trying to unsettle striker Lukas Podolski. He has reacted angrily to what he perceives as open courting of their player. ?It?s not right to flirt with a player in this way, who still has a two-and-a-half year contract with his club? Hoeneß said. ?I ...
Bayern tracking Netinho?
2008-01-09 04:05:00 Media reports from Brazil claim that Bayern Munich are tracking Atlético Paranaense midfielder Netinho. Artur Pereira Neto, known as Netinho, has reportedly been recommended to the Bavarian giants by scout and former star striker Giovane Elber, who now works for the club. The 23 year old attacking midfielder has impressed on his return to Atlético Paranaense after ... More About: Transfers , Tracking
Breno determined to succeed
2008-01-08 10:48:00 New Bayern Munich signing Breno has completed his first training session with his new team after his arrival from Sao Paulo, and has spoken about his wishes for the future. Using countryman Zé Roberto as his translator, he told reporters: ?I want to settle as quickly as possible and begin fighting for a place in the ... More About: Transfers
Bayern resume training
2008-01-08 10:40:00 Record champions and Bundesliga leaders FC Bayern have started their preparations for the second half of the current Bundesliga season. Willy Sagnol led the way into 2008 at Bayern, the Frenchman emerging first from the dressing room and onto a rain-soaked training ground at twenty past ten on Monday morning as Ottmar Hitzfeld took charge of ... More About: Training , Resume , Raining
Hitzfeld aims to end on a high
2008-01-07 20:13:00 Bayern Munich coach Ottmar Hitzfeld may be leaving the club in the summer but he insists he has lost no motivation for the challenges which lie ahead over the remainder of the season. The Bayern squad returned to training following the winter break on Monday with the holiday period coinciding with Hitzfeld’s announcement that he will ... More About: Bundesliga , High
Hoeness: No rush on new coach decision
2008-01-07 13:56:00 Bayern Munich general manager Uli Hoeness insists the club will not be rushed into appointing a new coach. The Bayern board met on Monday to discuss a successor to Ottmar Hitzfeld, who announced on January 2 he will leave the Allianz Arena at the end of the season. And Hoeness is adamant they have sufficient time to ... More About: Coach , Decision , Rush
Stuttgart interested in Podolski
2008-01-07 10:31:00 VfB Stuttgart are keeping tabs on unsettled Bayern Munich striker Lukas Podolski. VfB Stuttgart have complained that “the topic is being blown completely out of proportion,” but the fact remains that they are monitoring the situation of Lukas Podolski at rivals Bayern Munich. The German international has barely featured in Ottmar Hitzfeld’s starting XI at the Allianz ... More About: Transfers , Eres
Mourinho could fit the bill at Bayern
2008-01-06 15:23:00 Jose Mourinho ’s spokesman on Sunday fuelled speculation that the former Chelsea and FC Porto coach could be ready to consider a move to German giants Bayern Munich. Bayern Munich president Franz Beckenbauer has said he would like a man of the calibre of the Portuguese coach to replace Ottmar Hitzfeld whose contract expires in June. And Mourinho’s ... More About: Bill
Finke candidate for the job?
2008-01-06 12:27:00 Reports from Germany suggest that Bayern Munich manager Uli Hoeneß has had talks with Freiburg trainer Volker Finke about taking over from Ottmar Hitzfeld. The hottest question in German football at the moment surrounds the potential successor to Ottmar Hitzfeld, who announced his decision to leave the club at the end of the season earlier ... More About: Candidate
HSV coach recommends Hiddink to Bayern
2008-01-05 20:07:00 Hamburg coach Huub Stevens has recommended Guus Hiddink as the perfect coach to take over from Ottmar Hitzfeld at the end of the season. Following Hitzfeld’s decision to quit the Bavarian club at the end of the season, Bayern have started the search for a new coach. President Franz Beckenauer has already stated that the new boss ... More About: Coach
Pandev not coming!
2008-01-05 20:02:00 Lazio star Goran Pandev has rubbished rumours that he is set to leave the club. The talented forward has been the subject of much transfer speculation in recent weeks, with newspapers linking him with a transfer to long-term admirers Bayern Munich. ?At this moment I am thinking only about Lazio,? said Pandev. ?I have not talked to anyone ... More About: Transfers
Analysis: First half of the season
2008-01-05 20:00:00 In the first half of the 2007-8 season, Bayern lived up to their billing as far and away Germany?s most successful club with a string of new pace-setting achievements. fcbayern.de summarises the records set by the club both on and off the field in the six months of the campaign to date. Lights-to-flag leadership: Bayern remain the ... More About: Analysis , Season , Bundesliga , Half , Anal
Who will replace Hitzfeld?
2008-01-05 05:00:00 German league leaders Bayern Munich will almost certainly want to appoint a leading international coach to succeed Ottmar Hitzfeld who is leaving the club at the end of the season. Current Dutch national team coach Marco van Basten is reported by German media to be top of the Bayern list with other candidates said to ...
Beckenbauer: I want Mourinho at Bayern
2008-01-04 11:27:00 Bayern Munich President Frank Beckenbauer has spoken about Ottmar Hitzfeld’s decision to leave the club and looked ahead to who his successor might be. Ottmar Hitzfeld made it officially known this week that he will step down as trainer of Bayern Munich at the end of the season. In an interveiw with German newspaper Bild, the club’s ... More About: Bayern , Mourinho
Hummels loaned to Dortmund
2008-01-03 20:46:00 Borussia Dortmund have announced that Bayern Munich youngster Mats Hummels will be joining them on loan until June 2009. The talented defender, who has been limited to a role in the Regionalliga, has agreed to a temporary switch to the Ruhr club in order to gain more experience. The 19-year-old is seen as one of the more ... More About: Transfers
Winter programme presented
2008-01-03 20:45:00 Following a two and a half week break over the holiday period, the Bayern players report back to the Säbener Strasse for mid-season training on 7 January. Coach Ottmar Hitzfeld then has three and a half weeks to prepare his men for the tasks coming up in the second half of the 2007-8 campaign. Apart from regular ... More About: Winter , Bundesliga , Friendly , Programme , Resent
Italian Press: Lippi to take over at Bayern?
2008-01-03 12:29:00 With Ottmar Hitzfeld set to leave the German giants in June, Marcelo Lippi is very much a contender to take over at the Allianz-Arena. La Stampa reports that Marcelo Lippi is being heavily linked with the soon-to-be-vacant Bayern Munich post. With the Germna outfit set to return to Champions League football next season, and with Ottmar Hitzfeld ... More About: Press , Italian
Podolski: If Pandev comes, I?m off
2008-01-03 12:15:00 Lukas Podolski could be on his way out of Bayern in the summer if the club bring in Goran Pandev. Bayern Munich striker Lukas Podolski may be forced to leave the Allianz Arena if the club sign Macedonian star Goran Pandev. The Rekordmeister have been heavily linked with the Lazio striker for months now, with Pandev’s comments ... More About: Transfers
Official: Hitzfeld to leave at the end of the season
2008-01-02 12:50:00 Bayern Munich coach Ottmar Hitzfeld has confirmed he will leave the club in June at the end of his current contract. “I made my decision known to the club’s officials three weeks ago. I want to leave the job at the end of the season,” he told the SID sports agency. “I will now do all I ... More About: Season , Leave , Official
Everton want Van Buyten?
2008-01-02 12:42:00 Bayern Munich defender Daniel van Buyten has emerged as a possible transfer window target for Everton , setantasports.com can exclusively reveal. The Belgian centre back is the type of experienced cover that Toffees boss David Moyes would like to bring to Goodison Park to help fill the void left by Joseph Yobo’s participation in the African ... More About: Transfers
Inter target Schweinsteiger
2008-01-02 12:39:00 Inter are reportedly interested in young Bayern Munich star Bastian Schweinsteiger and have already enquired about the possibility of signing him. Coach Roberto Mancini is highly attracted to the idea of signing Schweisteiger from Bayern Munich even though this could prove to be a difficult operation. The German attacking midfielder’s contract expires in 2009, therefore if he ... More About: Inter , Transfers , Target
Lazio deny Pandev rumours
More articles from this author:2008-01-02 12:37:00 Lazio have insisted striker Goran Pandev will not be leaving Rome during the transfer window, despite heavy interest from Bayern Munich. The German giants have been strongly linked with a move for the Macedonia goal ace, but the club has moved to put an end to the speculation. “Lazio reiterate that the footballer Goran Pandev, who has ... More About: Transfers , Rumours , Lazio 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |




