Toni set for Bayern exit

Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness has confirmed the club are ready to let Luca Toni leave for free in January.

The Italian is surplus to requirements at the Bundesliga club after falling out with coach Louis van Gaal.

"We still don't have a concrete offer, although we are prepared to loan or sell him for no fee," Hoeness told German TV show DFS-Doppelpass.

Toni, who joined Bayern from Fiorentina in 2007, has started just three Bundesliga games this term and his only goal of the campaign has come in the DFB Pokal.

Hoeness added: "If necessary we will not ask for a transfer fee. We want to have peace."

The striker was not in the match-day squad as Bayern claimed a 5-2 win over Hertha Berlin on Saturday to make it six wins in a row.

That run suggests the club's early-season crisis is well and truly behind them, and Van Gaal insists the best is yet to come.

Bayern's resurgence has been achieved without Franck Ribery, whom Van Gaal insists can take Bayern onto the next level when he returns from injury in January.

"With Franck Ribery, we can probably do even better," said the Bayern coach.

"And, if we do better than we have done in recent weeks, then we also have good chances of winning a title."