Come to think of it, it is really bizarre. Klinsmann’s sacking coming at a time when the swine flu outbreak could really get serious.

From what I read so far, Arsene Wenger seems to be highly rated in Germany, doesn’t he? There is an advantage given he does speak German but, I just cannot see him head to Munich. What Rob Hughes wrote in the New York Times hit the nail in the head, and I quote:

‘He shuns them for one reason. He has the freedom at Arsenal to work his alchemy without worrying about being fired on a whim.

It would be unthinkable that Arsenal’s chief executive would swap a business suit for a track suit and scarf, and sit with the coach on the bench, as Höness does at Bayern.

Wenger would not tolerate hearing on television or read in a newspaper that his president, Beckenbauer, regarded the performance in Madrid last month as “schoolboy stuff, the worst I have ever seen Bayern play.’

On the day which was eventually announced Klinsmann got the boot, The Daily Mail claimed that Wenger had turned down the Bayern job. When being asked about that, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge dismissed the speculation.