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The Klinsmann effect – Bayern Munich plans for a serious overhaul in habits and training

Bayern Munich’s superstars Franck Ribery and Luca Toni can expect to sleep on the job next season as new coach Jurgen Klinsmann introduces radical changes – including beds in the team room. Klinsmann is set to replace Ottmar Hitzfeld as Bayern coach on July 1 and has already given instructions for a number of bold…

Transfer Roundup: Tottenham, Manchester United, Newcastle, Liverpool, Arsenal, Celtic, Bolton, Wigan, Fulham, Derby, Manchester City, Blackburn, Juventus, Borussia Dortmund, Real Madrid

I’ll get today’s transfer roundup started by getting your obligatory Berbatov tidbit out of the way first. Juande Ramos has slapped a 31 million GBP price tag on his prized asset. So, if you want to get him, you’ll have to pay an arm and a leg to get him, or, if you’re Roman Abramovich,…

Transfer Gossip: Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Tottenham, Fulham, Derby, Valencia, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Palermo, Fiorentina, Hamburg SV, Borussia Dortmund

Finally, we have some signings, because it can get a little boring talking about speculation sometimes.

World’s Top Goalscorer of 2007 according to IFFHS

“Soccer is a world made of numbers”. A phrase which would make any mathematician proud, with the eternal claim that you can find mathematics anywhere. And where better to find numbers than Goal Totals: the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS), the famous (and often criticized) organization that chronicles the history of football,…

Trekking Around Europe: Happy ho-ho-holidays for some, for others a lump of coal

It’s time to take a trip around Europe once again to see how some of the other leagues in the continent are shaking out as we head towards the new year (you did know that there was football beyond the English Premier League, right?).

Trekking Around Europe: Lyon, PSV, Werder stumble ahead of Champions League clashes, Marseille, Olympiakos, and Fenerbahce stroll

Our European tour starts in France, where Lyon, as is to be expected by now, are standing alone atop the Ligue 1 standings, but aren’t running away with their seventh straight title just yet. With their upcoming Champions League clash with Rangers in mind, Lyon manager Alain Perrin sat several key players for Saturday’s tie…

Could Bayern Munich’s Willy Sagnol be Manchester United’s Next Signing?

Sir Alex Ferguson wants to buy an experienced defender, probably a full back, during the January transfer window. He knows it, we know it and now so do the Glazers after the usually reticent Old Trafford boss spoke at length about the latest injury setback suffered by Manchester United club captain Gary Neville.

Bayern Munich Watch – Hot Shots III released in Stuttgart

The Topper Harley-like power dive of the Bavarians ended three meters below the surface of the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion, due to the critical loss of the right wing. Gomez was all happy to take good advantage of it and still wearing his Halloween hangman costume showed no hesitation to carry out the sentence. However, he may never…

Top 100 Greatest Ever Footballers

It’s that time of the year again. The time when a random (ok, let’s call it ‘well-respected’ if you prefer) football publication makes an “All Time Best” ranking that never fails to create controversy and offend a few people. FourFourTwo did one of those last month, this time it’s the turn of the ‘Association of…

The Bayern Munich Revolution

< ![endif]-->Bayern Munich is both the most popular and most loathed club all over Germany — a true touchstone (almost requirement) for a club considering itself national. However, is it the arrogant, prideful trio of Jancker-Effenberg-Basler or the much more likable Scholl-Tarnat-Elber triumvirate, which truly represents the Bavarian club? I am not here to judge,…