Catalan sports paper El Mundo Deportivo claims that Barcelona has a first option on Bayern Munich attacker and French international Franck Ribéry (26) (read more here).Barcelona president Joan Laporta would have closed a deal with Bayern Munich chairman Franz Beckenbauer that states that Barcelona has a preemptive right to sign the Frenchman.
This means that if Ribéry leaves the German club, he will go to Barcelona if the club offers as much as the highest bidder. Laporta would have been able to reach the agreement thank to his good relationship with Beckenbauer and Bayern Munich president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and the support of American sports supplier Nike.
The paper gives ten "key issues" relating a possible summer move of Ribéry:
1. He prefers Barcelona over Madrid
2. He doesn't want to leave Bayern in a bad way
3. His entourage is pressuring him to join Madrid together with Zidane
4. His wife travels between Munich and Spain, where the couple has a house
5. Barcelona has reached an agreement with Bayern to have the first option
6. Bayern would want the player to stay one more year and to sell him then to Barcelona
7. Guardiola sees his as a priority target
8. Barcelona won't enter a bid race
9. The personal friendschip between Laporta, Beckenbauer and Rummenigge is Barcelona's main card
10. The interest of Nike to see the player join Barcelona since Ribéry is one of their star players and Bayern is an Adidas team
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