No sooner had the New York Red Bulls been ruled out of contention for Bastian Schweinsteiger, then Lothar Matthaus was weighing in with his thoughts on the subject.
RBNY's lack of interest in signing Schweinsteiger was communicated by Red Bull's Head of Global Soccer, Oliver Mintzlaff, and fits very neatly with the team's apparent transfer policy since it started to vigorously align itself with the principles in place across the rest of the RB soccer family. RBNY plays RalfBall now, and that includes a policy of avoiding the sort of big-name, big-money transfers that can see a player forced into the team for commercial rather than competitive reasons.