Bayern Munich are ready to cut their loses on Luca Toni and let the Italian leave the club for free in January.
The powerful striker, who is thought to interest West Ham, has been at loggerheads with his coach Louis van Gaal all season.
Bayern president Uli Hoeness has clearly grown exasperated by the situation and is ready to do everything he can to ensure his departure.
"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."
Bayern trail league leaders Bayer Leverkusen by only two points at the midway stage of the season while they look forward to a tie with Fiorentina in the last 16 of the Champions League, with Van Gaal's self-defined "holistic process" now beginning to yield results.
"I am very satisfied and happy, also about the way we won," added the Dutchman.
"That is how we at Bayern Munich always want to play and we can now celebrate a relaxed Christmas."
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