It's being reported that France's international defender Willy Sagnol will leave Bayern Munich and join Juve following this season: http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=afp-fblgerfrabayern&prov=afp&type=lgns I think this is a good thing.
one french international to replace another french international on teh way out. zebinas going to milan in return for abbiati (rumor has it). This whole mafia thing that bayern is claiming is total cra9 because if they cared enough about the player they would have splashed out for them and offered them a decent contract. Also they shoudl try and keep theyr players by doing great in the champions league this year and show that their players can win trophies at bayern. until then theyshoudltn complain about loosing their players to the "mafia" also, i think juve should worry more about centr defense. they are set on teh wings, with zambrotta and chiellini(im glad hes starting consistently now) and soon to be sagnol. the center backs arent gettin any younger...
Please don't take Rummenigge seriously. Hoeneß made Bayern what it is today. Rummenigge isn't as dumb or charismatic like Beckenbauer, that's why people still listen to him in seriousness. He's in all those positions (E14, DFL etc.) in which he can't hurt much, nevertheless they've gone to his head. The most laughable part about his comments is the irony of a Bayern official talking about aggresive acquisition style. It's my favourite club, but come on, they treat the whole german league as their own private mall. Leverkusen (Lucio, Ballack, Ze Roberto, Jorginho, Sergio), Karlsruhe (Kahn, Scholl, Kreuzer, Sternkopf) and Bremen (Basler, Herzog, Ismael, Pizarro) could all sing the same tune about "mafia behaviour". It was pretty clear that Sagnol was leaving the minute he has an offer from another top-club. His stay here was more business* than anything else, he even said that he didn't like the life in Germany much in a french magazine a while ago. He was a great player here and will certainly help Juve - probably more than Kovac did. I'm sure he will like playing in Italy. * I'm not saying he's a greedy bitch, the offers were probably similiar. It's not like it takes more money to convince a player coming to Juve.
Sagnol will probably stay in Munich! I just have German sources: http://www.faz.net/s/RubFB1F9CD5313...A88AEC2C43C9A29232~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html
Sagnol will stay at Bayern Source is the today interview with Hoenes in the Süddeutsche Zeitung http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,tt2m2/sport/bundesliga/artikel/581/67514/
He signed his contract extension with Bayern yesterday but apparently Ballack is coming our way now???