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Franck Ribery to stay at Bayern Munich?

Thursday, 09. 17. 2009 – Category: Bayern Munich, Bundesliga

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Is this Franck Ribery going to change his mind about Louis Van Gaal?

Is this Franck going to change his mind about Louis Van Gaal?

The bizarre sexual antics of Ribery and Van Gaal have caused pundits to speculate that the Ribery might be changing his mind about the Dutchman. It was not much more than 2 weeks ago when Ribery stated:

“It is important that you have faith in the coach, but with him (Van Gaal) it is complicated,”

“This is the first time that my contact with a coach is not positive. There’s not much feeling between us.”

On the positive side, Bayern are looking a little stronger this season, Arjen Robben provides an alternate attacking threat to Ribery, and can certainly match the Frenchman for pace, and on a good day, can match him for skill. The problems with Robben have always been about attitude and his fitness. Their defence is still quite dodgy, but if they can attack with flair, that might be less of a problem. The laborious point that I’m trying to make is that if Ribery is going to stay, it will be because Bayern win the Bundesliga and mount a significant challenge on the Champions League. Bayern certainly have a stronger team than they did last season, but it’s not obvious whether the additional strength is going to deal with the threats in a very competitive Bundesliga, and allow them to struggle through the Champions League. Their group is no easy task, with a resurgent Juventus and French Champions Bordeaux all posing significant threats to Bayern’s qualification to the knockout rounds.

It’s a really long stretch to imagine Ribery at Bayern next season, but stranger things have happened.