Berlin 02-01-2010
Bottom Bundesliga football team Hertha Berlin have signed Georgian midfielder Levan Kobiasvili from Schalke FC. This comes after another transfer-loan signing when Hertha took Greek forward Theofanis Gekas from Bayer-Leverkusen until the end of the season.
There are un-confirmed reports that Roy Makaay, the Dutch striker who made himself very popular during his prolific time at Bayern Munich , 2003-2007, will sign with FC Nurnberg.
An already ‘done-deal’ agreed to loan to this same beleaguered FC Nurnberg from Bayern Munich concerns the young Brazilian defender Breno and possibly also another defender Andreas Ottl.
Makaay will have to see that balls go into the net of FC Nurnberg’s opponents and both Breno and Ottl to keeping them out of Nurnberg’s net. Unfortunately for FC Nurnberg this season there has been too many of the later and not enough of the former.
Luca Toni the forlorn striker of Bayern Munich has now finally signed with another club – namely AS Roma.
Along with Bayern forward Mario Gomez, Toni has become known this season for the many goals he ‘almost’ could have scored and should have scored but didn’t .
Balls emanating from this duo were either shot directly into the arms of the goalie or flew over, to both sides of and/or on the post!
While it seems Gomez has overcome this goalless-jinx at mid-season and has actually started to score goals, Toni has not.
One reason being that his falling-out with new Dutch coach Van Gaal has severly limited his playing time.
On the other hand it seems that a proffesional player of his pedigree should theoretically have the strength of character and the will to succeed and to have overcome these hindrances.
