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Toni, 32, who won the World Cup with Italy in 2006, has been unable to hold down a place in the German club"s starting line-up this season and has been told he can leave on a free transfer.

The Sport Express paper said earlier on Monday that the Moscow club, who finished eighth in last season"s Premier League, had offered the player wages of 6.5 million euros ($9.3 million) a year.

But top club official Konstantin Sarsaniya told the rival Sovetski Sport paper that Dynamo were not looking to add the 2006 World Cup winner to their ranks.

"Signing a player at that age, and on those kind of wages, would be very problematic," he said.

MOSCOW, December 21 (RIA Novosti)




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