Bayern Munich chief calls Newcastle ‘idiots’ over club record transfer

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·29 September 2025

Bayern Munich chief calls Newcastle ‘idiots’ over club record transfer

Bayern Munich legend Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has labelled Newcastle United “idiots” for shelling out a club-record transfer fee for Nick Woltemade.

The Magpies signed the German striker from Vfb Stuttgart for £69 million in the summer window, beating the Bundesliga champions to his signature.

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Woltemade has since scored three goals for Newcastle in the Premier League, while Nicolas Jackson, whom Bayern signed on loan from Chelsea, is yet to find the net in four appearances.

Bayern chief calls Newcastle ‘idiots’ over club record Woltemade transfer

Rummenigge, who is a member of the Bavarian outfit’s supervisory board, evidently harbours bitterness over missing out on the 23-year-old centre-forward, given his latest comments.

The two-time European Cup winner congratulated Stuttgart on convincing “an idiot” like Newcastle to stump up such a large fee for the player.

“I’ll be honest,” he told SportBild (via Sport Witness). “When this story with Woltemade and then the demand from Stuttgart came up, I, as well as Uli, Herbert Hainer, Jan Dreesen, and Max Eberl, I said: ‘folks, we’re slowly getting to a level that I simply don’t find acceptable anymore’.

“We shouldn’t fulfil every demand to make someone happy, especially the financiers at VfB Stuttgart.

“I can only congratulate those in Stuttgart for finding – I’ll use quotation marks here – an ‘idiot’ who paid that much money. Because we certainly wouldn’t have done that in Munich!”

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