He Wanted Su Dong!

Three days after Bayern won the Champions League, the club's official website announced that it had formally extended Su Dong's contract.

As before, the new contract was for one year, running until June 2010.

With Bayern extending Su Dong's contract, details of his special contract were gradually exposed by the media. Many fans had grown accustomed to this, while the other players had no intention of following his example. After all, none of them possessed negotiating leverage like Su Dong's.

It could be said that Su Dong's contract was something only a super star like him, in a special period and under special circumstances, was qualified to have. As for other players, unless they were veterans, it would be very difficult for them to receive such treatment.

In addition, the media revealed this year that Su Dong's contract-renewal signing bonus was as high as forty million euros. In any other league or club in European football, that would have been an astronomical sum.

But Bayern and Bundesliga fans did not object, because Su Dong's performance at Bayern had been plain for all to see.

The Sun also broke the news that Su Dong's contract with Bayern would officially expire in 2010. In other words, if he signed another deal after that, it would be a genuine contract renewal, rather than another one-year extension while his current contract was still in effect.

That meant that if Bayern failed to renew Su Dong's contract over the next year, he would be free to transfer without conditions.

Previously, Su Dong had only been conditionally free to transfer.

Su Dong's successful contract renewal attracted a certain amount of attention worldwide, but in truth, not very much.

Everyone believed that Su Dong remaining at Bayern would allow the club to continue dominating the Bundesliga and