Idiotic remark: Newcastle hit back at Rummenigge’s jibe | OneFootball

The transfer saga surrounding Nick Woltemade continues to make waves. While Karl-Heinz Rummenigge recently described the multi-million deal with Newcastle United as a “fool’s business,” the Premier League club remains completely unfazed. Coach Eddie Howe praises his new signing and rejects the criticism.

On the show “Blickpunkt Sport” on BR, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge recently chose clear words. The former CEO and current supervisory board member of FC Bayern explained, with regard to the missed transfer of Nick Woltemade: “I can only congratulate those in Stuttgart for finding an idiot who paid the money that we in Munich didn’t want to pay.”

Bayern had courted the 23-year-old for a long time but failed due to VfB Stuttgart’s transfer demands. While the Swabians reportedly demanded around 60 to 65 million euros from Munich, Newcastle United offered up to 90 million euros shortly before the transfer deadline—a sum that ultimately made the difference.

Rummenigge emphasized that he, together with Uli Hoeneß, Herbert Hainer, Max Eberl, and Jan-Christian Dreesen, had clearly opposed such a deal internally: “We’re entering dimensions that I no longer find acceptable. We shouldn’t meet every demand.”

Eddie Howe defends new signing

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In England, the head of Bayern’s supervisory board is taking it all in stride. Before the Champions League match at Union Saint-Gilloise, Newcastle coach Eddie Howe spoke about the comments—and dismissed them as “irrelevant”.

“The market determines transfer fees, not necessarily a single club,” Howe clarified. Much more important to him is what Woltemade brings to the team: “We are very happy to have Nick with us. He has started very strongly during a difficult time for him, because he was thrown straight into action without training, really without any significant time with us.”

Despite the late transfer at the end of the window, the 1.98-meter-tall striker quickly found his footing. In three league games, he has already scored two goals. Howe does not believe that the immense transfer fee could be a burden: “I don’t think he overthinks things, which is a really big strength. What he will be measured by is how he plays in the team and what he gives to the club in the future.”

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