The German football league (DFL) have closed their investigation against Bayern Munich because they can't legally prove that the top club violated the rules when their officials met with Werder Bremen striker Miroslav Klose.
DFL managing director Holger Hieronymus told Thursday's edition of Kicker sports magazine that Munich named the meeting informal and Bremen didn't lodge an official protest.
Klose, the Germany striker who has a Bremen contract until 2008, met with Munich coach Ottmar Hitzfeld and general manager Uli Hoeness on April 24 in Hanover.
By international rules a player can not be approached over a transfer until the final six months of his contract.
There was speculation that Munich want Klose this summer or by 2008 at the latest, but the club insisted the meeting was informal and not a transfer negotiation. Klose has since said he will stay in Bremen next season.
Hieronymus called for tighter rules in Germany similar to those in England, where Chelsea and Ashley Cole were fined €900 000 ($1.2 million) because they held talks one year before his contract with Arsenal expired.
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