Big Clubs Lining Up For a Little Seb Frey Action

By: Martha | October 24th, 2007

Stud. Shortly after Dida’s little performance in Scotland, the media were full of reports about the other goalkeepers Milan would be pursuing when the summer transfer window opens. Among the possible future Rossoneri was Sebastian Frey, Fiorentina’s resident French genius who is beloved by all Viola fans and habitually ignored by a certain arch individual by the name of Raymond. Though there’s not been much talk about that particular move in the past few weeks (give it time — it’ll be back the moment Dida drops another cross), the German media today have come up with a new destination for Frey, and it’s a lot further away than Milan is.

According to an unnamed German paper, Bayern Munich are eying the Frenchman as a possible replacement for ~~He-Man~~ Oliver Kahn, who will retire at the end of this season. Michael Rensing is currently second in line behind Kahn, but he’s four years younger than Frey and has spent his whole career at Bayern, never making more than periodic appearances in the first team; it’s thought Bayern are heasitant to hand the gloves to someone so inexperienced. (Plus of course, that Luca Toni deal is working out awfully well, so maybe Bayern are tempted to return to the well in the hope that anyone who comes from Fiorentina will fit in so smoothly.)

Frey’s current contract runs through 2011, and he’s expect to cost any suitors something in the range of €15-18 million. Plus, as I said last time this came up, selling him will take the Viola finding someone else they trust — their presumed goalkeeper of the future, Edoardo Pazzagli, is an Italian youth international who is on the UEFA Cup roster and has trained with the first team, but he’s only 19 and, presumably, a ways off from a regular place.