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Toronto FC:
According to information of the "Weser-Kurier" Torsten Frings is facing a move to Canada. The former German national player should have aroused the interest of the Toronto FC. Canadian Club is Jurgen Klinsmann to advise you. Frings is currently on vacation and would like to look around afterwards for a new club. "So far I have not talked to anybody," said the 34-year-old former captain of Werder Bremen .
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Hertha's Rob Friend from Canada?
19th June 2011 17.34 clock, Florian Witte, Carsten Priefer
Klinsmann looks as Toronto consultant reinforcements from Germany. Hertha striker he gets?
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Friend came to € 1.8 million transfer from Gladbach to Berlin, could never fulfill the expectations
So far, it looked as if Hertha would find no takers for storm-flop Rob Friend (30 / 5 goals in 25 games). That could change now. Friends situation in Berlin is said to have attracted the interest of Jürgen Klinsmann (46)!
The ex-national coach working with his company's Soccer Solutions as a consultant with the Canadian club Toronto FC. The club plays since 2007 in the U.S. professional league MLS wants this season for the first time in the playoffs. After 17 of 34 games, the club is currently 6 points behind the target. Therefore planning to get Klinsi reinforcements from the Bundesliga. Friend would fit there perfectly!
Most recently he spent three weeks with the Canadian national team in the Gold Cup in the USA. Friend is said to have spoken with colleagues about his role as a bench press in Berlin - and has apparently gotten around to Klinsi to Toronto.
According to Canadian media in Toronto is urgently looking for a striker, Friendster stands on the candidate list. In his home of Hertha as a top star would be placed in the attack - a perspective that his coach Markus Babbel (38) can not offer.
But it could give problems in finance. Hertha want for the striker (under contract until 2013) probably around a million euros transfer. Toronto also has to save and keep to the strict content limits in the league. There is therefore a need for negotiation.
Friend is not the only Bundesliga player on the wish list has the Klinsi. According to "Weser Kurier" Bremen's Torsten Frings is also (34) have an offer from the Canadians.