Bayern eye Chelsea's Huth as Kovac replacement

Bayern Munich are interested in signing Chelsea defender Robert Huth to replace Robert Kovac, who plans to leave at the end of the season.

"We've spoken to the club and to the player's agent," Bayern's director of football Uli Hoeness told the club's website in regard to Huth.

Kovac, the Croatian international who has been at Bayern since 2001, told Munich-based newspaper tz that he was determined to leave at the end of the season, when his contract expires.

"Bayern Munich as a topic is over for me," Kovac was quoted as saying. "It's uncertain where I'm going but I will be leaving Bayern."

The 20-year-old Huth has made four international appearances for Germany since the arrival of Juergen Klinsmann as coach.

Tickets sell out fast

Meanwhile, tickets for Bayern Munich's Champions League game at home to Chelsea next month sold out within 90 minutes of going on sale yesterday.

Bayern announced that all tickets for the quarter-final, second leg on April 12 at the 59,000-capacity Olympic Stadium in Munich had gone before 10 a.m. (Malta time).

The Bundesliga club's allocation of 3,000 tickets for the first leg on April 6 in London was also sold out.