News, gossip and possibly some stuff I have made up....

International defender Christoph Metzelder will not sign a new contract with Borussia Dortmund and will leave at the end of the season, possibly for Real Madrid…

Jermaine Jones will not be signing a new contract with Eintracht Frankfurt and has apparently already signed a four year deal with Schalke 04. He appears to have held off on this for as long as possible to make general manager Heribert Bruchhagen appear bad and not become a boo-boy for the Westkurve, this after having been injured for most of the previous two years….

Oliver Neuville would like to remain with Borussia Mönchengladbach, even if they get relegated…

Thomas Von Heesen, until recently the manager of Arminia Bielefeld, is reportedly considering a move to Wolfsburg to be their new sporting director, after it was initially assumed that he would take over at Dortmund after the end of the season…

Finally (although we can expect this one to run and run), Werder Bremen are already fighting to hold on to Diego, after Bayern Munich’s general manager Uli Höness voiced his appreciation of the player’s talents. In need of a true ‘10’, it appears that Bayern’s interest in Rafael Van Der Vaart of HSV has cooled due to his injury problems over the past two seasons, and that Bayern will splash the cash at the end of the season, something they have been reluctant to do until now.