The 28-year-old Klose - top-scorer at last year's World Cup - has been under pressure since failing to score in Germany's 6-0 rout over minnows San Marino on Saturday and has been linked with a multi-million euro transfer to Bayern Munich.

But Frings, 30, stirred things up by saying he believes Klose wants to leave Bremen and his priorities lie elsewhere, which drew his teammate's wrath on the eve of Germany's Euro 2008 clash with Slovakia. But after Germany's 2-1 win in Hamburg on Wednesday - which fired the home side to the top of Group D and five-points clear of rivals the Czech Republic - Klose and Frings both said the matter had been put to bed.

"The press always make a big deal of these thing, there is no problem between Torsten and I," said Klose, who looked to have scored Germany's first goal until a replay confirmed the ball came off a Slovakian defender.