Franck Ribery Agrees to Extend Bayern Munich Contract To 2015

The Frenchman will sign a new long-term deal, according to the latest reports...

French midfielder Franck Ribery will put pen to paper on a new deal that will keep him at Bayern Munich for another five seasons, thus ending seemingly ceaseless speculation about his future, according to German publication Bild.

The 27-year-old attacking midfielder, who will sit out the UEFA Champions League final against Inter at the Bernabeu due to suspension, will instead put pen to paper on a new deal that will see him become the highest earner in the clubs history with an annual salary believed to be in the region of €10 million.

Ribery had been linked with a move to a number of Europe's top clubs this season, most notably Real Madrid in Spain and English Premier League sides Chelsea and Manchester United. Reports from Spain earlier this year even went as far as suggesting that Ribery's agent, Alain Migliaccio had agreed terms with Real Madrid president Florentino Perez but those claims now appear well wide of the mark.

It is understood that Ribery's representatives Migliaccio and Jean-Pierre Bernes met with a Bayern contingent, that included Uli Hoeness and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, on Thursday at the team hotel in Madrid to thrash out the terms of the new deal.

Despite enduring a season besieged by injury, off-field controversies and transfer speculation it now appears that Ribery's long-term future has finally been clarified and he will sign a four-year extension that will keep him at the Bavarian outfit until he is 32.