La Liga - Bayern hint at Ribery sale

Eurosport - Wed, 17 Jun 11:10:00 2009

Not content with adding Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka to their ranks, Real Madrid are ready to shell out another 55 million euros for France international Franck Ribery, amid signs from his club Bayern Munich a deal could be envisaged.

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"Franck Ribery will play for Real Madrid and be (chairman) Florentio Perez's third big money signing of the summer," Spanish sports daily AS reported without giving any sources for its information.

But after meeting top advisors Zinedine Zidane and Jorge Valdano, Perez is ready to "battle" for Ribery's signature, AS stated, as Real bid to add another top name following the 93 million euro capture of Ronaldo from Manchester United and Kaka from AC Milan for 65 million.

According to Valdano, Real, who were overshadowed last year by Liga and Champions League winners Barcelona, "need another four or five players" if they are to overhaul their rivals and think of capturing a tenth European crown.

Valdano says Bayern are chasing "an astronomic sum" for Ribery but according to the German outfit's eminence grise Franz Beckenbauer a transfer could be envisaged "if he really wants to leave."

Beckenbauer told Sport Bild magazine: "We all agree - if he really wants to leave we will deal with that problem."

And Sport Bild headlined with the words "The Frenchman can go."

Back in June, Beckenbauer had commented that there were "two options - Ribery extends his contract to lay to rest the transfer issue or we let him go. The only problem is if Ribery wants to go. Then it will be difficult to hang on to him."

But only on Tuesday, Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge told Bild daily that the club had "no intention" of selling the player, who cost 25 million euros from Marseille two years ago.

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  1. Who Cares! He is an other overrated player, Mr­ Beckenbauer is another opinion ridding arse, arrogant­ german, Bayern is like Real madrid, lots of money and­ poor playing, money cannot buy Championships..

    From LuisA, on Thu 18 Jun 8:59AM

  2. los Blankos, los merengues, los galactico!!! Real my­ king forever
    Other football fanatics can say whatever­ they want, i think Madrid fans are only
    worried about­ the players (superstars) arrival.
    If we get bankrupt­ (which can never happen) thats our problem not
    theirs.­ They should be worried about their clubs and let us­ worry about madrid. MADRIDISTA!!!

    From klinkh4real, on Wed 17 Jun 11:12PM

  3. real madrid are so anoying they take all the good­ players like ronaldo 80 million,kaka 56million what­ more do they want.at least manu are trying to buy­ ribery.there is a three way battle.chelsea,manu are­ trying trying to buy him.

    From maha, on Wed 17 Jun 6:33PM

  4. All that money and look at the hair do he­ has.......hilarious! He looks like Sloth from The­ Goonies. Baby Ruth anyone? hahahahaha

    From MisterB, on Wed 17 Jun 5:04PM

  5. to getachew44. Where does zaparta play? But i really­ think what we need is a world class centre back like­ Vidic, bucause i am not sure about pepe either.

    From Raimo K, on Wed 17 Jun 4:58PM

  6. Casillas
    Ramos Pepe Garay Marcelo
    Diarra
    Rybery Kaka­ Ronaldo
    Huntelaar Villa

    From HbK, on Wed 17 Jun 4:53PM

  7. REAL MADRID IS JUST ANNOYING

    they steal all players­ with their loan mountains -.-

    From Shitty M, on Wed 17 Jun 4:10PM
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    Raimo K you are good but you missed somethings, alonso­ may not come but silva will and don't worry
    in­ diffence we have
    maicon, ramos, pepe, marcelo
    tores,­ garay, albeol and zapata
    i'm 100% sure
    madrid next­ season(09/10) will be
    1 casillas
    2 maicon, 3 pepe, 4­ ramos, 5 zapata
    6 lass.d
    8 ribery, 18 kaka, 11 silva,­ 10 ronaldo
    9 villa
    sub
    dudek
    garay, tores, albeol,­ marcelo
    m.diara, granearo, delared, roben, balanca,­ valencia
    raul, higuen and negredo
    who will­ leave
    canavaro has already left
    hainzi, metzelder, javi­ garcia, salgado, saviola,snijder,guti, vandervart,­ drenth, bueno, huntelar and nisterlroy all this will be­ leaving
    i'm waiting to see my heroes negredo and­ granero, they are 20 years and are on loan and will­ come back
    perez will bring all the top stars earlier­ now in june, but in july many will leave and the new­ comers will be diffence only
    i'm waiting on fire to­ see how this madrid dominate europe for the coming 5-6­ years just like years from 98 to 2002 when we take 3­ CL
    hey everybody be careful we are coming like tsunami­ without any warning
    HALA MADRID

    From getachew44, on Wed 17 Jun 4:08PM

  9. Sneijder+van der Vaart+$ is too much for Ribery + the­ little french kid is ugly as hell=not too many shirt­ money commin from him:S........and Real dont really­ need defenders cause we have­ Metzelder,Pepe,Marcelo,Torres,Ramos,Heinze,Garay maybe­ we do need one center back but thats it ,the defence is­ lead by Cassillas after all....Real always was like­ this average defenders above average midfield and very­ good attack

    From Isti, on Wed 17 Jun 3:48PM

  10. it would be funny if madrid get stuffed in their first­ league game after spending all this money . madrid­ should concentrate on getting top defenders and­ strengthen the back that is what let them down last­ season. they will buy all these players and come­ january there will be unrest due to not being able to­ play them for every game as the players that are being­ bought will expect to play every game. but good luck to­ madrid if you have the money why not spend it but why­ didnt they do this last year ?

    From Iain, on Wed 17 Jun 3:43PM

  11. heard they are ofering van der vaart and sjneider and­ money for ribery. thats a great deal. bayern have a­ good team as is and they have already signed 4­ players.

    to my last post, a left back tey should sign­ zhirkov if chelsea dont.

    From yip, on Wed 17 Jun 3:38PM

  12. loll p, what? not even close to the real positions you­ muppet.

    raimo, they need to sign a left back cause the­ wee guy dubbed the next carlos aint done it. I thought­ they were signing the centre back from valencia?­ carvalho from my team would be the player they need if­ stayed inury free. great reader of the game but still­ commanding enough. not sure bout pepe still.

    this new­ guy wants rid of all the current players but surely he­ must relise he needs a quality squad and not just­ starting 11.

    From yip, on Wed 17 Jun 3:37PM

  13. nr 6 if there's one club thats never gonna go­ bankrupt that's Real Madrid...they did this from­ 2000 'til Beckham and what happened? Real became­ the richest club in the world in terms of revenue..go­ figure:D

    From Isti, on Wed 17 Jun 3:34PM

  14. d a m n all this spending's gonna go to our­ head...ahh too late ! HALA MADRID!

    From Isti, on Wed 17 Jun 3:27PM

  15. Hala MADRID

    From Richard Madrid, on Wed 17 Jun 1:35PM

  16. To Raimo K left back Raul and centre back Lassana­ Diarra

    From Loll P, on Wed 17 Jun 1:28PM

  17. at least clubs like barca and united dont have to go­ and buy alkl the expensive players maybe you should get­ a decent defender
    what does it matter anyway real are­ going to be bancrupt in a few years no matter how much­ they win

    From opowicz, on Wed 17 Jun 1:24PM

  18. How much will be his salary? Bayern is astronomicaly­ rich club and it is rumored that Ribery is earning­ about £7000000 a year.

    From Loll P, on Wed 17 Jun 1:24PM

  19. Real Madrids line up next season
    ­ Cassillas
    Ramos Pepe ? ?
    Lass ­ Alonso
    Ronaldo Kaka Ribery
    Villa
    Not sure­ about the centre back and the left back. Real Madrid­ fans help me out here!!!!

    From Raimo K, on Wed 17 Jun 1:19PM

  20. Hala Madrid, you are the stupiest club in the world !­ :PPPP

    From iurisimo, on Wed 17 Jun 1:02PM
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