You Gotta Love Those Speculations

Fair enough. Cristiano Ronaldo’s impact on the Bundesliga or the German football in general is not really worth to mention. Okay there was Portugal’s EURO ’08 quarter-final loss or the whole bunch of young show-offs with golden football boots who try to copy this Manchester United poser.

At the same time is Real Madrid not only since the 2-6 disaster against Barcelona in San Bernabeu on the hunt for new players to make their team competitive again for the next season. It also happens to be the next president’s election at the royal club on May 14^th and former president Florentino Pérez who reigned the club from 2000-2006 and thus responsible for the Galácticos has to present his agenda, or better his shopping to the electorate.

And now you do the math. So what’s ManU’s plan? Of course Bayern’s Ribery. Apparently the Red Devils offered 70 million Euro for the Bavarian king who is according to the grapevine not really averse to get transferred away, especially not to Manchester (aren’t we in a recession or a crisis or something…?). His personal sponsor Nike would love to see him in ManU’s Nike jersey not only to get over the fact that their Ronaldo will be wearing Reals’ Adidas shirts.

But what happens with Bayern? Rumor has it that there have already been negotiations with Werder Bremen’s management about their star, Brazilian Diego. As for Bremen who simply have the talented to find young and talented successors for their leavings around the world, the Bavarians are more buy-the-best-players-from-their-rivals oriented. To name a ballpark, we’re talking about 15-20 million Euro. Besides Diego, Bayern also tries to convince Barcelona and the unhappy Aleksandr Hleb who could form a totally new creative centerpiece in their game. Talking about unhappiness, Madrid’s Rafael van der Vaart will probably be dispensable again next season. He mentioned that his former club Hamburg is his second home. But will he be really disappointed to play for Bayern Munich?

But it all comes back to the Ferrari-crasher up there in Manchester. He is the one who has to kick-off the merry-go-round. It’s getting interesting…