Former Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann has claimed he is considering retirement because the refereeing in the Bundesliga is so bad.

Bayern Munich are close to selling reported Blackburn and Manchester City target Roque Santa Cruz after the striker was left out of the team for a League Cup tie.

BAYERN MUNICH chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge says he cannot fathom why Michael Ballack would want to join Manchester United.

Former Bayern Munich coach Ottmar Hitzfeld has stoked the fire ahead of his ex-club’s Champions League tie with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday by branding the London club’s manager Jose Mourinho as “arrogant”.