With Luca Toni limping off in just the 35th minute of Bayern Munich’s 2 - 1 loss at Hertha Berlin due to injury, further MRI scans have shown an inflammation in the Italian International’s Achilles Tendon and could result in Landon Donovan’s first Bundesliga start next weekend against Koln.
Spanish giants Real Madrid have retained their position as the richest football club in the world — according to an annual survey issued by accountancy firm Deloitte.
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Welcome to the Deloitte Football Money League 2008 (register to download your report). This is the eleventh year of the publication, profiling the largest clubs in the world’s most popular sport. The Deloitte Football Money League is the most contemporary and reliable analysis of clubs’ relative financial performance and is released less than nine months after the end of last season, as soon as all the clubs’ revenue figures are available to us. For the purposes of this publication, we look at the best publicly available measure of financial comparison: turnover from day to day football business operations.
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The Allianz Arena will be the host of the 2012 Champions League Final after the venue was decided upon by the UEFA Executive Committee on Thursday in Switzerland.
Donovan is officially “in the zone” now…
LD scored two goals and Bayern Munich defeated Mainz in a friendly on Thursday, 5-0. Donovan has four goals in five friendlies since joining Bayern on loan from the Galaxy.
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With all the talk lately about Kaka and the 100 Million Euro bid by Manchester City, Bayern Munich fired off a warning shot to anyone even thinking about stepping up to the table for the services of Frenchman Franck Ribery.
Landon Donovan scored his second goal for Bayern Munich on Monday in the team’s 2-0 friendly victory over Kaiserslautern.
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In only his second game in a Bayern uniform, Landon Donovan scored the final goal (adding to his assist during his 90 minute run out against Al Jazira) during Munich’s 3 - 1 win over Al Wheda to close out their Dubai training camp.
Landon Donovan went the full 90 for Bayern Munich and set up Bastian Schweinsteiger for their opening goal against UAE league leaders and Asia Champions League participants Al Jazira.
