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Bayern's money talks

AFP, Berlin
While the duo of Luca Toni and Franck Ribery played a big pan in helping Bayem Munich win the Bundesliga tide, the German giant's financial fire-power was the real key to their success.
No other Bundesliga side is remotely capable of copying Bayern's feat of splashing out 69 million euros (100 million US dollars) in a summer spending spree to recruit names like Ribery from MarseilleandToni from Fiorentina.
The pair gave an almost instant return, long before the season was won at Wolfsburg with a 0-0 draw on Sunday with three games remaining
Ribery, who cost Bayern 26 million euros last summer, bossed Bayern's midfield over the course of the season, while Toni has scored 21 league goals so far for the winners.
Bayem bought in seven players last summer including Germany defender Marcell Jansen and striker Miroslav Klose, the top-scorer at the 2006World Cup who came to Bayem for a cool 12 million euros.
Over the course of the season, Toni and Klose have scored 31 league
goals between them so far.
Veteran striker Roy Maakay and midfielder Owen Hargreaves were both sold to cater for the new arrivals while Ze Roberto was brought back from Brazil to give the midfield a harder edge alongside Ribery.
Before the season began, club manager Uh Hoeness had predicted a massive gap between his team and the rest of the league once the action started.
"They will need binoculars to see us," he boasted with only a hint of irony.
While the other Bundesliga clubs watched the spending spree with green eyes, Bayem blasted their opponents and finished with a 10-0 goal difference with a maximum 9 points after the first three games.
Bayem were only beaten twice in the league this season - at VfB Stuttgart and Energie Cottbus - after lacklustre performances.
The defeat in Cottbus was the biggest shock of the season as the Bundesliga's bottom side beat the top team in March - on the day Bayem barely put up a fight.
With a salary of ten million euros a year - or more than 192,000 euros (296,500 US dollars) per week before tax - there were mutterings of discontent in the Bayem ranks on the rare occasions Toni failed to score.
But Toni and Ribery proved their
worth in the tide run-in when defending champions VfB Stuttgart were hammered 4-1 at the end of April when Ribery came off the bench and lit up the Allianz Arena.
After Toni put Bayem ahead in the eighth minute, Ribery made his entrance in the 57th minute, picked up an immediate yellow card, curled in a shot from 35 metres and smashed home a second a minute later to seal the win.
"He is an artist when the ball is at his feet," beamed club manager Uli Hoeness.
"You may congratulate us on winning the title."
But Bayern's illusions of greatness were blown apart when a side containing the likes of Ribery, Toni and Klose were blown apart at Zenit St Petersburg in the UEFA Cup semifinal on May I.
The 4-0 hammering was fully deserved as the Russians ruthlessly exposed Bayern's poor defending.
Even though club president Franz Beckenbauer had described the UEFA Cup as a "losers" competition. Munich failed to impress in their European campaign.
New coach Jurgen Klinsmann will need to make sure his side are far more consistent next season if Bayem are to threaten in the Champions League.