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Italian World Cup winner Luca Toni said Thursday he is also ready to quit Bayern Munich for a Spanish or English club when the transfer window reopens in January to win back his Azzurri place. "I am also ready to go to England or Spain," Toni told German magazine Kicker having already said a return to Italy is another possibility. Having been in the Italian team which won the 2006 World Cup in Germany, Toni has found himself on the bench at Bayern Munich this season having lost favour with their Dutch coach Louis van Gaal. Toni, 32, is desperate to win back his ... Read Full Story

Bayern Munich's Italian striker Luca Toni has claimed he will be returning to Italy while his coach insisted he would not try to stop him. Toni moved to the Bavarian giants in 2006 after winning the World Cup with Italy in Germany. But after three successful seasons he has found himself left out in the cold by new coach Louis van Gaal for most of this campaign and his repeated outbursts against his coach have seen him left in limbo. But in an interview to be published on Wednesday in Chi magazine, Toni affirmed that he is coming home, presumably during January's transfer window. ... Read Full Story

Soccer Extreme : It’s always cool to see a star footballer in a music video, but three? It makes you wonder whether one of the band members played youth football with them. Watch Bayern trio Philipp Lahm, Miroslav Klose, and Mario Gomez make cameo appearances in Room 77 Support’s “Hope” video. Wait, who’s that guy in the band? He looks familiar… Oh, right, it’s Andreas Goerlitz! So this is what he’s been doing in his time on the Bayern bench… (goal) Read Full Story

Germany striker Miroslav Klose was on Saturday released from a four-day quarantine for swine flu after showing no signs of the virus and is available to play against the Ivory Coast next week. Both the Bayern Munich star and his wife Sylwia were put under observation last Wednesday after their four-year-old twin sons Noah and Luan were discovered to both be suffering from the H1N1 virus. Neither Klose, the top scorer at the 2006 World Cup, nor his wife showed signs of the virus and have been allowed to leave quarantine. Klose, 31, is now free to join the Germany squad to prepare for ... Read Full Story

Luca Toni has made it clear that he will be most certainly leaving German giants Bayern Munich in the January transfer window. The 6ft 5in attacker is an experienced player with at least a few more good years in him for a host of teams that may include West Ham, Arsenal, or one of the big Serie A teams in his home country of Italy. While speaking at a Christmas charity visit to a Bayern supporters’ club, the former Fiorentina striker stated: “Certainly I will be leaving Munich. “That will be decided in the next 10 days but I don’t have any chances left ... Read Full Story

Unhappy Italy striker Luca Toni has hinted that he may leave Bayern Munich in the January transfer window despite assertions from club president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge that no strikers will be sold. Toni has suffered a frustrating start to the season after injured and a spell with the reserves before finally being reintroduced to the first team last week. In an interview with the Gazzetta dello Sport, he suggested he sees his future away from Bavaria. "I have had four terrible months, it was clear things weren't going well with the coach and now I'm delighted to be back playing and to have been complimented ... Read Full Story

French midfielder Franck Ribery is making good progress as he recovers from his persistent knee injury, says Bayern Munich's team doctor. Ribery, 26, has been ruled out for the next two months with a troublesome knee strain, but Bayern's doctor Hans-Wilhelm Mueller-Wohlfahrt says the joint is responding well to treatment. "We will treat his knee for a month, then we will see how it is," said Mueller-Wohlfahrt. "Then we will see, but at the moment we are on the right path." Mueller-Wohlfahrt, who has a successful track record of treating some of the world's biggest sports stars from his Munich clinic, says an operation ... Read Full Story