Poised to sign
Croatia hitman Olic set for three-year deal
03.01.2009
Bayern
have marked the new year with a dramatic raid on the transfer market,
lining up Croatia and Hamburg striker Ivica Olic as the first new
arrival in Munich next summer. "We've struck an agreement. All we need
now is the signatures under the contract,“ FCB general manager Uli
Hoeneß informed
fcbayern.de on Saturday following the Bayern squad's arrival in Dubai.
Olic switches to the Säbener Strasse on a free transfer from 1 July
2009 and will sign a three-year contract binding him to the Munich
giants until 30 June 2012. "I'll do everything I can to mark my
departure from Hamburg with a trophy,“ the 29-year-old vowed on Friday,
as he and his HSV team-mates prepared for a winter training camp almost
exactly parallel to Bayern's in Dubai. The teams meet on 30 January in
Hamburg in the match marking the official start of the second half of
the Bundesliga season.
UEFA Cup winner with CSKA
The Croat moved to north Germany in January 2007 from CSKA Moscow,
where he won three championship medals and the 2005 UEFA Cup. He
contributed 14 goals to Hamburg's fourth-place finish in the Bundesliga
last term. Olic has 12 goals to his name in 25 club appearances this
season, and has scored 11 times in 61 full internationals for Croatia.
"We're certain Ivica will be a perfect fit to our strikers Luca Toni
and Miroslav Klose. One pleasing aspect is that he's out of contract
[at the end of the season]," FCB chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
commented last December. In a curious twist, Olic is unlikely to have
any difficulty remembering the name of his future Italian strike
partner: his two young sons are called Luka and (An)Toni(o).
objavljeno i službeno! sretno Ivice