The Bundesliga Rumor Mill

It has been an inter­est­ing week in rumors.

First the managers!

Hof­fen­heim will say good­bye to Ralf Rang­nick because he wants to spend money this sum­mer. They will then say hello to Jur­gen Klins­mann, who is the epit­ome of fru­gal­ity. After all, he only forced Bay­ern to rebuild it’s train­ing facility.

Mean­while the pos­ses­sors of Klinsmann’s Bud­dha stat­ues look cer­tain to fill his vacancy with AZ’s Louis Van Gaal who must be dream­ing of the Europa league.

And as the man Bay­ern fired for being too suc­cess­ful looks cer­tain to join Schalke after work­ing won­ders at Wolfs­burg, the Wolves are sniff­ing around Frank Rijkaard. It is a tes­ta­ment to how good Mag­ath is that we can hear a rumor like than and not laugh.

As for the players.

Bay­ern Munich.
So in the same week we heard that Bay­ern couldn’t afford to meet the €10 mil­lion eval­u­a­tion by Fiorentina for Sebas­t­ian Frey, we heard that they are going to spend €26 mil­lion on Werder’s Diego to replace Frey’s buddy Franck Ribery. But not to worry for the cash-strapped Bavar­i­ans. Man­ches­ter United want to spend €62.5 mil­lion on their French wiz­ard, which should allow them to buy a replace­ment and hope­fully stay solvent.

It will even allow them to spend €5 mil­lion on Tom Hud­dle­stone of Tot­ten­ham Hot­spur. How­ever, that ridicu­lous rumor is pred­i­cated on Mar­tin Jol being the next man­ager. What nobody has asked, is why hasn’t Jol made a play for his for­mer star­let at Ham­burg yet.

Borus­sia Monchenglad­bach
Marko Marin, who should be higher on most radars than Edin Dzeko, as he will leave if Glad­bach are rel­e­gated, has only been linked with Ham­burg so far. And that’s under the assump­tion that they are going to lose Piotr Tro­chowski to Ever­ton or Arse­nal. At €9 mil­lion, I can’t believe this kid hasn’t been linked with just about every club in Europe. I would love to see him at Spurs.

Werder Bre­men
Diego! Please pick a team already. You and Ribery are bor­ing me to tears.

Wolfs­burg
Edin Dzeko has fooled every­one in Eng­land into think­ing he’s the next big thing. While he has a lot of poten­tial, he has Mis­omivic and Grafite to make him look good presently. So some­one in Eng­land is going to over­spend on him, only to find that he’s actu­ally still a work-in-progress. Don’t get me wrong, he has the poten­tial to be a great player, but he’s not there yet and Eng­lish teams aren’t patient enough typ­i­cally to see him through to his full development.

Bayer Lev­erkusen
The Werk­self picked up Sami Hyypia on a free. Fan­tas­tic sign­ing, but does that mean the end of Henrique?

Hertha Berlin
Aux­erre for­ward Benoit Pedretti is being heav­ily linked with the cap­i­tal club, who will be des­per­ate for a for­ward if Pan­telic leaves and Voronin returns to Liverpool.

Stuttgart
The return of the prodi­gal son seems immi­nent as Alexan­dre Hleb looks set to leave Barcelona’s bench. I’m not sure he’ll be much more than a sub at Stuttgart though.

Han­nover 96
Wolfs­burg Alexan­der Mad­lung, who is avail­able on a free, is close to join­ing the reds, if HSV doesn’t make a last minute offer.

Tagged as: Alexander Madlung, Alexandre Hleb, Arsenal, Benoit Pedretti, Diego, Edin Dzeko, Fiorentina, Franck Ribery, Frank Rijkaard, Jürgen Klinsmann, Liverpool, Louis Van Gaal, Marko Marin, Ralf Rangnick, Sami Hyypia, Sebastian Frey, Tottenham