“I think it’s between United, City and Bayern”.
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Next week, Bayern plays Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League having already qualified for the knockout stage.
Senior figures at Old Trafford understand that Guardiola will not renew his contract at Bayern and are aware that he is eager to work in English football, leaving Manchester City as his likeliest destination.
They confirmed their favourites tag with a dominant first half performance but could not make it count, missing good scoring chances while Gladbach keeper Yann Sommer was in top form. After a 0-4 drubbing in the season’s first Clasico ar home, Los Blancos have been ejected from Copa del Rey for fielding an ineligibale player. We would not be a good fit.
The defending champions had won 13 of their opening 14 matches, but came unstuck at Borussia-Park as Andre Schubert’s revival stepped up a gear thanks to three second-half goals. But at a club like FC Bayern that won’t help us afterwards, if we can’t go on like this without him.
Recently, Premier League giants Chelsea have also shown a keen interest in the Bayern forward, who has scored 29 goals in 19 games in all competitions this season.
“We are a little more aggressive, we attack a little more and do not only wait to see what the opponent is doing”, Raffael said. Everything must go well: “the shape, the game and the happiness of someone upstairs has probably wished that I scored five goals”.
Manchester United, it is suggested, will not baulk at the $10.5 million contractual payoff due to van Gaal if the club dispense with his services at the end of the season and install Guardiola as his successor.
The weekend has been rife with speculation about the next move of Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola.
Shinji Kagawa’s late goal for Borussia Dortmund closed the gap on Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich to five points.
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This article has been corrected to show that Hamburg’s goalkeeper was Jaroslav Drobny, not Rene Adler, and that Schubert’s record is eight wins and two draws, not nine wins and one draw.
