Bayern Munich star Franck Ribery says he wants to join Real Madrid. The France international midfielder wants a move sorted out quickly, and has ruled out the possibility of joining any other club. “It's decided, I want to leave,” Ribery told sports daily L'Equipe on Thursday. “Yes, it will be to Real or nothing.” Real Madrid has already spent massive sums in this offseason, signing Kaka from AC Milan, Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United and Karim Benzema from Lyon, along with defender Raul Albiol from Valencia. Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge hasn't completely ruled out Ribery's departure in previous comments, but the Bavarian club would want a sizable fee to let him go. “I would like a discussion with the Bayern directors fairly quickly,” the 26-year-old Ribery said. Ribery has played 38 games for France, scoring seven goals, including in both 2010 World Cup qualifiers against Lithuania earlier this year – both tight 1-0 wins settled by Ribery's goals. Ruben de la Red, meanwhile, will not play for Real Madrid next season after medical tests failed to identify the cause of a heart complication that caused the Spain international to collapse during a match. De la Red hasn't played since losing consciousness during Madrid's Copa del Rey match at Real Union on Oct. 30, with what doctors initially diagnosed as a suspected heart anomaly. But after months of “rigorous” examinations, Madrid said on Thursday that the 24-year-old midfielder, who was a member of Spain's European Championship winning team last year, would not return to the first team after tests failed to identify the problem. Platini against big spending UEFA President Michel Platini has warned big-spending clubs that he plans to introduce tighter financial regulations within “two or three years” that would put an end to huge spending sprees in football. Real Madrid has spent $297 million to acquire three of the world's most sought-after players in a matter of weeks. Manchester City, meanwhile, is offering Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o staggering personal terms of $16.4 million a year, which would make the Cameroon international the highest-paid player in world. “We will do something. We are working on it. But it will take a bit of time, maybe two or three years,” Platini said Thursday in an interview with sports daily L'Equipe. UEFA is backing plans for players' salaries and transfer fees to be proportionate to a club's income in a bid to curb excessive spending in football. UEFA, meanwhile, on Thursday approved new guidelines for match officials to deal with racist chants or other behavior in stadiums which includes stopping the game. The new rules would allow the referee to first stop a match and issue a warning over the public address system requesting that the racist behavior cease. If this did not work, he could suspend the game for 5 to 10 minutes. “As a third and final step, if the racist behavior does not cease after the game has restarted, the referee shall as a last resort, definitively abandon the match,” UEFA said in a statement. The body also decided that any consequences, such as forfeit, stadium suspension, fines or others, from the racism outbreak “will be dealt with by the UEFA disciplinary bodies”.
