http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2545356/TRANSFER-COLUMN-David-Moyes-Germany-watch-Bayern-Munich-striker-Mario-Mandzukic.html
Moyes in Germany to watch Bayern striker Mandzukic
By SIMON JONES
PUBLISHED: 14:50 GMT, 24 January 2014 | UPDATED: 15:11 GMT, 24 January 2014
David Moyes will take his seat at Borussia-Park on Friday night for Borussia Monchengladbach's game with Bayern Munich and take a close look at a familiar face in Mario Mandzukic.
The Manchester United manager will be on another scouting expedition as he weighs up several players in the match but has a long-standing admiration for the Bayern Munich striker.
Mandzukic has scored 14 goals in 26 games for club and country this season but is unsettled by the pending and much-heralded arrival of Robert Lewandowski.
As Everton manager, Moyes sent scouts to watch Mandzukic while he was playing for Dinamo Zagreb in 2010 and for Wolfsburg 18 months later.
He was also impressed by his partnership with Nikica Jelavic in the national side but, when it came to bidding, Everton could not compete with Bayern.
Although Mandzukic was seen as back-up to Mario Gomez, his form has since forced the Germany international to move to Italy yet now with Lewandowski due to join and Pep Guardiola preferring to use one main striker there are rumblings he is ready to leave.
Chairman Karlheinz Rummenigge is keen to offer a new contract saying: 'We are absolutely content with Mario Mandzukic.
'He has outperformed our expectation and we will keep him at Bayern Munich. We are willing to sign a new contract with him and I don't think he would be against those talks.'
Yet the prospect of a new challenge could be timely.
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Daily Mail je Daily Fail, ali bili su price da je Everton zelio Mandzukica dok je bio u Dinamo (tada su bili puno clanke od tome).