Rummenigge on Woltemade deal: "Stuttgart have found a mug" | OneFootball

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge comments on FC Bayern's transfer policy. He has a clear opinion on the failed transfer of Nick Woltemade.

In the Bavarian Broadcasting, the supervisory board member of the record champions spoke about missed top deals and in particular about the failed negotiations for Nick Woltemade.

"We're a bit sorry about Florian in particular. He is a great player, he would have fit perfectly to Bayern. But he decided differently and we have to accept that," Rummenigge said on "Blickpunkt Sport". Midfield star Florian Wirtz transferred to FC Liverpool in the summer for a mega fee.

In the poker for DFB striker Nick Woltemade, however, it was mainly the price that was not manageable for Bayern from Rummenigge's point of view. "When the story with Woltemade and Stuttgart's demand came up, I told Uli, Herbert Hainer, Jan Dreesen and Max Eberl at some point: 'Guys, we're slowly getting into dimensions that I simply don't find acceptable anymore. And we shouldn't fulfill every demand at the end of the day to make someone happy, especially the financiers at VfB Stuttgart'," he explained openly.

Rummenigge: "I can only congratulate Stuttgart"

Then the transfer finally fell through. Rummenigge: "Afterwards, Woltemade went to England for even more money. I can only congratulate Stuttgart for finding - in quotation marks - an idiot who paid so much money, because we certainly wouldn't have done that in Munich."

The striker transferred to Newcastle United in the summer, which paid up to 90 million euros for the German national player. A sum that Bayern was neither willing nor ready to invest according to Rummenigge's presentation.

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Compared to Wirtz, for whom FC Liverpool will reportedly transfer up to 150 million euros, Woltemade was cheaper, but Rummenigge still views the deal critically. For the Munich team, such a transfer fee was "no longer within an acceptable range".

The sporting interim balance is mixed: Woltemade scored for the second time for Newcastle on Sunday, but could not prevent the defeat against Arsenal. Meanwhile, there are initial critical voices in Liverpool about Wirtz after a mixed start phase.

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