#9 Luca Toni ~ 39 goals in 46 matches

[Oliver_Kahn]

Originally Posted by alansmithy14

is this true?? but if it is bayern made a great signing and if they sign franck ribery the team will be rly good and probably win the bundesliga this season

Ribery can stay in Marseille, Bayern don't need him.

Bayern need a playmaker

[MUFC]

Van Der Vaart? What about him and i heard Klose could be joining Bayern too, which means what the hell is happening to Podolski?

[Oliver_Kahn]

Podolski had a shit season and he just got injured, so he'll be out at least until september.

Van der Vaart has rejected a move to Bayern because Bayern rejected him 2 seasons ago, so he won't be coming.

Klose will join Bayern in 2008, when his contract with Werder runs out

[kyan]

Originally Posted by Oliver_Kahn

Ribery can stay in Marseille, Bayern don't need him.

Bayern need a playmaker

You don't need a playmaker now that u have Sosa do you? I haven't seen him play but I've read about him and he is very highly rated, supposedly him, Veron & Estudiantes' striker won them the league last season.

[Oliver_Kahn]

Sosa is more of a winger, kind of like Schweini, both started as centre mids but don't track back, so they can't play alongside van bommel, or our midfield would be like England's midfield with Lamps and Gerrard.

[azzurri]

Toni did not want to go to another Italian club because it would piss of the Viola fans. Italian clubs were willing to pay anywhere from £15m to £18m, much more than the £8m Bayern have signed him for.

[Oliver_Kahn]

Classy attitude

[azzurri]

Lol, u cant blame him though. His records would be meaningless in the eyes of the fans if he went and joined Inter, Milan and especially Juve.

[Oliver_Kahn]

Why do you say specially Juve ?

[azzurri]

Juventus and Fiorentina are huge rivals, historically. When Fiorentina sold Baggio to Juve, there were riots.

[LAF]

The Bundesliga isn't as bad as people make it out to be. Some very entertaining games get played.

It's good for the league that a big name has signed. Not quite RVN but still bloody good.

[Werdna]

Originally Posted by LAF

The Bundesliga isn't as bad as people make it out to be. Some very entertaining games get played.

It's good for the league that a big name has signed. Not quite RVN but still bloody good.

Yes there are some exciting games but the quality is poor.
Only 6-7 years ago the Bundesliga was second!! in the UEFA 5year rankings and have been in decline ever since. They totally screwed up when it came to turning the football there into a business and securing business deals and bringing more revenue to the league as a whole. Add to that the bad experiences from clubs who had quality finance management like Leeds which scared other clubs off from taking risks.

The Bundesliga in general assumed everything would just go on being great as did the national team in the late nineties...

[Oliver_Kahn]

Bayern swoop for Italy star Luca Toni




Next season’s Bayern line-up is set to feature a reigning world champion with the arrival of Italy striker Luca Toni from Serie A outfit Fiorentina, the clubs have announced. Subject to a medical, the 30-year-old will put his name to a four-year contract with Germany’s most successful club side. The Bavarians will pay “exactly €11 million” for the player, chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge confirmed.

Toni turned down offers from an array of top Italian clubs before opting for a switch to the Bundesliga. “Obviously, there was a great deal of money involved, but our negotiations with Luca Toni and his management were always extremely fair and above board,” Rummenigge commented.

Golden Shoe for 31 goals

Bayern began their pursuit of the 1.94 metre / 6 ft 4 in and 94 kg / 207 pound goal-getter back in February, the chairman revealed. “Toni’s decision to go to Bayern Munich is a nice gesture towards the club and the city of Florence,” Fiorentina President Andrea Della Valle was quoted as saying. The striker is due in Munich for his medical and official presentation in the course of next week.

Toni switched to Florence in 2005 and has amassed a total of 49 goals in the last two seasons, including 31 in his first year in Tuscany to earn him the Golden Shoe as Europe’s leading goalscorer. He was a member of the Italy squad which triumphed at last summer’s World Cup in Germany, and currently has 12 goals to his name in 27 senior internationals, with 91 goals in 177 Serie A appearances.

Late developer

“Tonigol” rates as one of football’s late developers, not making his Italian top flight debut until the age of 23 after a few distinctly modest seasons in the second and third divisions. “I even considered dropping to the fourth or fifth level somewhere near my home town of Modena,” the player recently revealed.

He finally made the breakthrough in 2003-4 with 30 goals in 45 appearances as US Palermo marched to a place in Serie A, a barnstorming record which also earned him a first international cap. Toni is currently recuperating from minor surgery on his foot but is expected to be fully fit when the Bayern squad report back for pre-season training on 29 June.

Fifth new signing

Toni joins Jan Schlaudraff, Hamit Altintop, Ernesto Sosa and Marcell Jansen as Bayern’s fifth new signing for the 2007-8 campaign, although the board plans to bring in a total of seven or eight new faces in a radical squad overhaul. The remaining transfers should be completed “in the next one, two, or three weeks at the most,” according to general manager Uli Hoeneß.


Bayern swoop for Italy star Luca Toni

[BlackNess]

Great newss

[Forza_Roma]

Congrats to Bayern! Luca will definitely score at least 20 goals next season!!