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Bayern are considering buying 21 year old Jose Ernesto Sosa, playing at Estudiantes. Normally Bayern would already signed him in the January transfer period, but because of the Copa Libertadores this was impossible. Rumours have it that Bayern already have a first buying option for this player, who's nickname is the Little Prince.

Sosa played 27 games, scoring 4 times and giving 5 assists. Not only Bayern are in the race for his signature, also Juventus and Athletico Madrid are reported to have shown interest.

To be honest, I havent heared from him untill now. Appartently he would cost us about 10 millions, imo a lot of money. I would rather see Quaresma (Porto) coming to Bayern, because he for one already proved himself in the CL (great match against ManU)

Hmm what's the source please?

Source (in german):

http://www.sport1.de/de/sport/artikel_857505.html

Source (in italian):
http://www.calciomercatoweb.it/dettaglioNewsCategoria.asp?hdnIdCategoria=2&hdnId=6580

cheers, I updated the transfer list page.

Just keep in mind that this are just rumours going around the footballworld.
In an interview Hoeness stated that lots of players are linked with a move to Bayern, and after 3 weeks their names are already replaced by others.

Still, the loss of 2 great Bayern players (Deislers and Scholl) and the bad results in the bundesliga may (and imo should) convince the Bayern board to buy some new players. The names of Ribery and Riquelme were already circulating in several rumours, but both seems to very unlikely.

The guy mentioned here, SOSA, was about to be signed this January transfer window, so maybe there is some truth in this rumour.. who knows

In witch position does he play?

José Ernesto Sosa is an Argentine football midfielder. He was born on June 19, 1985, in the city of Carcaraña, Santa Fe Province. He currently plays for Estudiantes de La Plata in the Argentine first division.

Sosa has played for Estudiantes since 2002. The undisputable highlight of his career to date was helping Estudiantes to win their first league title since 1983 by scoring the equalising goal from a free kick against Boca Juniors in the 2006 Apertura final playoff game.

After the game, his manager Diego Simeone recommended Sosa to S.S. Lazio. It was hinted in the press that several European clubs were interested in Sosa, whose price tag could be in the vicinity of € 10 000 000.

So far SL Benfica and FC Bayern are the highest bidders alongside Atletico Madrid as AC Milan have cooled their interest. It is said in the press that FC Bayern has an option to buy Sosa in summer 2007.

Bayern Munich are on the verge of snapping up Argentine starlet Jose Ernesto Sosa, according to reports in the German press.

The Bundesliga champions have struggled to fill the void left by Michael Ballack's transfer to Chelsea and, with Bastian Schweinsteiger plagued by poor form, have looked short of ideas and power in midfield.

Sosa is already understood to have travelled to Munich in order to finalise arrangements for a summer move to Bayern.

The Under 21 international has earned rave reviews in his Argentine homeland, after helping club side Estudiantes win the league title in 2006.

Estudiantes president Eduardo Abadie had initially ruled out the possibility of selling his most prized asset, amid rumours of interest from Benfica, Atletico Madrid and Milan.

However, Bayern are reportedly ready to part with €10million (£6.7million) as they look to strengthen ahead of next season.

Alemannia Aachen's Jan Schlaudraff and Hamit Altintop of Schalke have already agreed to join Bayern in the summer.

http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx?hli ... &channel=&

According to Bild the Bayern's chief of finace Karl Kopfner confirmed the negotiations with Estudiante about Sosa. But according to Hörwick, nothing is fixed.

This transfer seems to be getting finalised within the coming weeks. According to Skysports (normally quite reliable) Sosa already went to Munich. Bayern are reportingly willing to pay up to 10million euro for him, quite a lot for a player who hasnt proven himself in Europa. Hopefully a good gamble..


http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx?hli ... ne+starlet

i just hope he's good.

Walls wrote:i just hope he's good.

he must be.. if they are asking 10mil for him

supr4king wrote:

Walls wrote:i just hope he's good.

he must be.. if they are asking 10mil for him

Hmms, being highly priced doesnt always mean your good. Some South-American clubs just want to scare off the European clubs by asking prices that are way too high.. the good thing is that he (together with Veron) helped his team Estudiantes to win the league last year. Still, I would prefer for instance Quaresma (Fc Porto) who already proved his value on the international stage..

Quaresma is hell of a player. no doubt about that and also no doubt about the fact he would not join Bayern even if we offered lots of cash. Sosa is allright i guess and it seems we "allready" signed him.