The stars of Munich, Franck Ribery, 35, and Arjen Robben, 34, "most likely play their last season with FC Bayern," said club president Uli Hoeness on Sunday during a visit to a club of supporters .
The boss of the Bavarian giant, current fifth in the Bundesliga, repeated that he intended to renew the cadres at the end of the season: "The workforce will be reworked to a few positions.We will conduct a very offensive transfer policy, the funds are well full ".
Friday, at the general meeting of Bayern, the chairman of the board Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, kingpin of the club, had defended his two veterans, much criticized in the press since the beginning of the season: "The duo Robbery has wrote glorious chapters of our history, " he said, " they played more than 700 matches, scored 261 goals and issued 289 assists, they are legends of FC Bayern ".
"They should not be judged on their age, but on the qualities," added Rummenigge, while Robben had made a festival Tuesday night in the Champions League with a double that launched the broad victory of the Germans 5-1 against Benfica . Ribéry had scored the fifth goal, his first of the season.