Marbella - Lukas Podolski and FC Bayern - whether it really is true love again? After one and half years, "teething problems" would take off the ex-Cologne in Munich is now the second half finally come true.
But it is nothing at the moment: For Bayern coach Ottmar Hitzfeld has established itself in the training camp in Marbella - Podolski is expressed in the second half, only the bank. Even two weeks before the second half start Poldi Hitzfeld took his last hope!
"Miro Klose and Luca Toni are well rehearsed, so they will also begin in the second half, if nothing extraordinary happens," said Hitzfeld on Friday. Whether Podolski or Jan Schlaudraff times would get a chance? "It depends on how the situation develops." Bam! Much clearer it could hardly have said Hitzfeld to stay - Klose and Toni healthy and not expected to play lousy, they stay put.
Especially for the phrases like hammer blows Podolski have to be. "When the second half for me it should run as the first round, then I must think hard how and where it goes on for me," the 22-year-old international had recently declared. Under Hitzfeld's statement, he may now have to think before the second half.
If he comes to the conclusion, if possible, immediately seek his fortune elsewhere? The transfer list is still open until the end of January, and there's no shortage of interested parties: Among other things, Werder Bremen, VfB Stuttgart and the English Premier League club Manchester City hot on Poldi.
Or is now his very last Podolski Bayern hope for Jürgen Klinsmann and is sitting out the second half? His contract with record champions runs until 2010, and in summer comes the coach, whose World Cup-Eleven, he was placed 2006th However, he did not have Toni as well as beside it. Podolski will make his thoughts ...
