Alex to Bayern - management intensify its efforts

According to 'Bild', Bayern Munich intensify its efforts to get Alex.

The paper says that ManCity is not willing to get down with the 20Mil. € pricetag for Boateng, so Bayern now tries to get Alex from FC Chelsea. The transferfee for Alex would be around 10Mil. €

Furthermore the 'Bild' says, that in two weeks, Jupp Heynckes wants to know his final squad for the upcoming season.

F' yeah. CBs are the core of most systems, the earlier we get them the faster they can adapt to whatever philosophy Heynckes will be appliying, which will definitely start building from the back to the front, as he's stated.

I say we got both Boateng and Alex. We also have Mertesacker with 1 year left in contract and who's being sold. What are you waiting for, Nerlinger!?

Mertesacker is , luckily , no option for us as Rummenigge stated.

I don't get why you guys here on the froum are such fans from Mertesacker. Just because Löw let him play the WC (where he played 'vanBuyten-style', Friedrich was the good one of the 2).?

He is slow, his movement is LucaTonyvanBuyten like and he often stands completely wrong. Name me one good game of last season from Mertesacker. The only thing i rate are his headball skills.

Im happy our management thinks the same

Frage: Gibt es einen Plan B, vielleicht mit Per Mertesacker?
(is there a plan-B with Mertesacker)

Rummenigge: Mertesacker kann ich ausschließen.
(I can rule out Mertesacker)


i also hope that we get Alex AND Boateng, but i don't think so. But that would be very nice

I rate him because he was very good once upon a time, and in Werder's gung-ho, in-the-opposite-goalpost defensive line, he isn't used to his strengths. He's not old, either. For those tight defensive games his experience would come in handy, and most of all, he's on his last year of contract so he'd be CHEAP. Yeah, he wasn't great in the WC but he becase solid as Germany progressed.

I would love Friedrich, actually, but it seems his back is giving up on him. At that age those sort of injuries kill careers.

Basically, I'd be happy with 2 good CBs. Currently no WC CBs are available

"The transferfee for Alex would be around 10Mil. €"

What?? You expect him to get him at that amount? LOOOOOOOOOOOL

double that son

Mertesacker is way too slow and we currently do not have any fast defender to pair him with, as we already know stupid Nerlinger thinks the team is ready to go and we dont need additional signing, which at most we'll sign only one defender.

Mind You Mertesacker is a very good defender the problem is his speed and Bremen is all about attack which leave him expose most of the time, his not like Van Buyten who is slow and any decent player also find it easy to turn him inside out.


The board just have to sign a defender, Boeteng, Zapata, Alex, Dante.


my pick will be Zapata and Boeteng..

According to the french paper 'l'equipe' the transfer of Alex is soon fix, Chelsea is demanding 10Mil. €

'Info L'Equipe. Selon nos informations, le Bayern Munich serait proche d'un accord avec Chelsea pour le transfert du Brésilien Alex. Les Blues demanderaient 10 millions d'euros pour leur défenseur de 29 ans, sous contrat jusqu'en 2013'

We will demand more than 10m euros lol

We will see.... how does it come that many different papers say its 10Mil.?

BAYERN_MUNICH wrote:We will see.... how does it come that many different papers say its 10Mil.?

They're all wrong. 10m euros is 8m pounds...why would we ever sell for that amount especially when every player is already priced higher than they are?

And anyways Alex is worth way more than 10m based on his qualities....he's our starting CB, come on.

Alex is worth more than 10mil but anything is possible in football how much did we get Robben for again?

the fact is .... we will pay less than 15 Mil. because Rummenigge said Alex will be a lot cheaper than Boateng....so my guess is 10-13 Mil.

our board has a problem, they think they are smart and can dictate how clubs sell their players.

Another big mistake if the board actually believe Chelsea will sell a quality defender like Alex for £10m or even £15m, they need to wake up to the reality.


Rummenigge had no right to criticize Man City if they want £20m for Boeteng, they have the right to and is none of his business, if really they rate Boeteng so highly I wonder how Man City managed to sign him right in our face last season when he even had a better season.


Jupp also has no right to tell Beyer leversuken what to do regarding Vidal.

Pathetic board most especially Nerlinger

I agree, that's my Nerlinger thread's point. The board just can't seal off deals if any sort of heavy negotiation is required, specially when some decent money is required. Hell, you haven't spent much last season and we NEED those reinforcements. Bayern are no poor club, why not just splash the cash? Not 20m, but you can definitely get Boateng down to 16-17m.

Also, Alex at 8m He'd be actually be one I'd understand the 20m price tag on.

According to the english express , Bayern are close in on Alex.
They english newspaper claims, that we will get Alex for 9Mil. pounds.

Sorry to say that, but we now have 4 different independant source from 3 different countries, all saying that the fee will be around 10Mil. €, and you guys still claim that it will be 20Mil. €


http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/258067/Bayern-Munich-close-in-on-Chelsea-defender-Alex

It's just that he's a good player who's worth waay more than 9m... I guess he doesn't want to be David Luiz' bench, or Chelsea are after another CB.

What a problem we have. Anyone else pissed at the fact our central defense could have consisted of Lucio-Hummels if it wasn't for stupid transfers?

Ye of course he woth more than 9mil€ ... but that doesn't make a transfer fee,just look at Sahin.

Yes stupid van Gaal sent Lucio away. Just imagine a brazilian backline with Lucio + Alex

With Hummels it was another story, he had Lucio+ a very good Demichelis in front of him and he wanted to play, so i think back in the past there was no chance to hold him. And he wasn't that good the past few years, just last year he came into the spotlight.

Well, didn't Sahin have this stupid 10m clause? It's the only explanation. If we can get Alex for 9m no way I'm complaining.

I think we might get a Brazilian backline with Alex-Gustavo, anyways.

If he wanted playing time we could have just loaned him. If we were so focused on youth at the time, I don't know why CB was forgotten when all we had was Badstuber and an ageing vBuyten.

Alex-Gustavo wouldn't be that bad either....

And at that time , we weren't very focused on the youth. Klinsmann gave Toni Kroos no chance of playing time, so Kroos asked the management to go on loan to Leverkusen. He also didn't gave Hummels a chance.
Later in an interview Kroos said that the time with Klinsmann was so bad , because he always focused on the more experienced players and not on talents. I think that was another reason why Hummels wanted to go.
Instead he bought 'older' players like Tymoschtschuk, Borowski..

Badstuber, Müller and co were still at the 2nd team.

But yes, it was a mistake to give Hummels away, but no one new how good he could get. In the end its always the coach who says with which players he plans and which not.

True, I forgot Klinsmann. We were playing Lell back then . I remember his awesome game against Barca and without Lucio.

Too bad he turned out so shitty. While the van Gaal hate may be true, goddamn if he doesn't have an eye for talent. Defenders don't really grow with him, though...

news from the TZ from today:

Boateng or Alex : one is coming!
Munich - Bayern bends in personnel planning slowly into the home stretch. Later this week will decide which defender will be required. The decision is between Jerome Boateng and Alex.

The training routine has the Bavarians again, after the preparatory camp at the lake again toiled and sweated Sabener road. Around 1,500 spectators came to the training ground on Tuesday to observe, as do the Bayern stars for the coming season.


What the Bayern fans did not see: Also behind the scenes, there are a lot to do. Board boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and sporting director Christian Nerlinger work together on the last major transfer for the upcoming season: A new central defender to come, which gives the unsettled at Bayern last season, new defensive stability. Shall endeavor Nerlinger and Rummenigge several weeks ago to intense international defender Jérome Boateng, now Manchester City.




The problem is that Bayern are not willing to pay from Manchester called "astronomical prices" (Rummenigge). After the first, quickly abandoned the battle lines had hardened negotiations between the clubs. Some time was then complete silence. But now suddenly move comes in the story: how the tz learned, it was earlier this week re-establish contact between the clubs. Initially the British were still quite acidic because of the allegations that had expressed Rummenigge ("Such a negotiation tactic I've never experienced before. The can not hear anything from you! A peculiar Event"). But then both sides were getting closer. Even so close that anything could happen very quickly now. Because the Bavarians have like an internal decision. They are no longer willing to be put off from Manchester. As the learned tz, Bayern want to bring even this week, their last transfer across the stage.


Dafür gibt es zwei Optionen: Erstens: man einigt sich mit Manchester City auf eine Ablöse für Boateng. Hier ist von rund 13 Millionen Euro die Rede. Dann würde der Transfer noch in dieser Woche über die Bühne gehen. Variante zwei: Sollte diese Einigung diese Woche nicht zustande kommen, werden sich die Bayern aus dem Kampf um Boateng zurückziehen – und dafür bei einem anderen Verteidiger von der Insel zuschlagen: Chelsea-Verteidiger Alex. Darauf haben sich die Bayern-Bosse geeinigt. „Wir müssen alternativ denken, wenn wir keine Lösung mit Manchester City hinkriegen. Wir wollen auf der Position etwas tun. Der Trainer sieht die Notwendigkeit, wir auch, wir sind da einer Meinung“, sagte Rummenigge vor einigen Tagen.

Of the qualities of the Brazilian cops are convinced the leaders to Boateng there is one major difference: Alex brings with less potential for identification, because he is not a German national player. Still, Alex is the first alternative: After tz information to the Bavarians with the player largely agreed the transfer fee with Chelsea has already negotiated conclusion: Ten million euros would cost the 29-year-old Brazilian (ten internationals), could be as early as the traveling to Munich next week.

And there would be yet another transfer that would like to make the Bavaria: Arturo Vidal, Leverkusen, Bayer aims to strengthen the defensive midfield. But because the Bavarians are well cast in this position, Causa Vidal has lower priority. "This is a personnel, because I'm totally relaxed," said Rummenigge.

Why not both, Nerlinger? I'm seriously thinking they will deploy Gustavo as a CB now, since Tymo's going to Defensive Mid.

seems like its a done deal.

i guess i will have to follow bayern from now on,rafinha-alex-gustavo ftw

The underrated Brazil bench

Gustavo's good enough to at least be bench at Brazil, IMO. Very underrated player. Maybe even start at LB.

i already said he should start in the brasileirao thread.We have guys like gustavo,marcelo and fabio out there and all we get is f*cking adriano and andre santos