Bayern Munich Supervisory Board idiot provokes official Newcastle United response | OneFootball

Newcastle United have given an official response to idiotic comments made by Bayern Munich Supervisory Board member Karl-Heinz Rummennige.

The embarrassing comments from such a key figure at Bayern Munich, their former Chairman and star ex-player, are absolutely ridiculous.

To call Newcastle United ‘idiots’ because they paid £65m (plus a potential £4.3m in future add-ons) for Nick Woltemade, is quite extraordinary language for somebody like Karl-Heinz Rummenigge to use about another club AND player.

The bitterness is transparent, a number of important Bayern Munich figures making clear just how gutted they are, that their cheap bullying tactics failed to pay off this summer.

Stuttgart refusing to fold as Bayern Munich made a number of lowball offers well below their valuation.

Newcastle United then swooping in and paying the £65m that Stuttgart wanted for their star striker, Bayern Munich having made three bids and the highest of those only £52m for Nick Woltemade, who they wanted to be Harry Kane’s long-term replacement.

At his pre-Union Saint-Gilloise press conference, Eddie Howe giving an official NUFC response when quizzed on the idiotic comments from Bayern Munich Supervisory Board member Karl-Heinz Rummenigge about the transfer fee Newcastle United paid for Nick Woltemade – 30 September 2025:

“It [Nick Woltemade transfer fee] is irrelevant.

“The market forces dictate transfers fees, not necessarily any one club.

“We are very pleased to have Nick with us and I think he has started very strongly, in what has been a difficult period for him. because he has been thrust straight into action with no training time of note with us.

“He has done really well.

“We are really pleased to have him with us and the transfer fee is absolutely irrelevant.

“What he is going to be judged on is how he performs in the team and what he gives to the club going forward.

“I have seen players myself be weighed down by either the fee, or the expectation, but he is very relaxed.

“He looks like he is enjoying his football, enjoying being here, and ultimately that is key.”

The Mag report – 29 September 2025:

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has been talking about Nick Woltemade signing for Newcastle United and not Bayern Munich.

It was taken for granted that the serial Bundesliga winners would be signing the young up and coming striker this summer.

Nick Woltemade had made clear he wanted to sign for Bayern Munich as his preferred destination and that made other top clubs back off, having been interested in the young forward who’d just had a massive breakthrough season at Stuttgart. The striker scoring 17 goals in the Bundesliga and in the German Cup despite only 22 starts in the two competitions, plus a number of sub appearances. That form seeing Nick Woltemade get his first senior caps for Germany in the summer.

However, Bayern Munich tried to abuse their powerful position, that position being the fact they were Woltemade’s preferred destination and also their status as by far the most dominant club in Germany.

Instead of meeting Stuttgart’s €75m (£65m) valuation, Bayern Munich made a number of lowball offers that infuriated Stuttgart, as they and their star striker were messed about by Bayern.

A third and what turned out to be last offer by Bayern Munich of £52m, turned down by Stuttgart. Eddie Howe and Newcastle United then seizing this surprise opportunity gifted to them by Bayern refusing to meet the valuation of a striker they were desperate to sign as Harry Kane’s longer-term replacement. United paying the required £65m (plus up to a possible £4.3m in future add-ons if targets are hit).

Bayern Munich have been furious at their inability to compete in the summer transfer window as the financial power of the Premier League, has seen them miss out on Florian Wirtz as well as Nick Woltemade.

This has manifested itself in a series of unprofessional lacking integrity comments and interviews from major Bayern Munich figures, those both inside and outside of the club, especially with regard to Newcastle United outbidding them for Woltemade.

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is a Bayern Munich legend, a decade as a player there and in later times has been a key figure off the pitch, a long-time chairman and currently a board member.

The former (West) Germany international now the latest major Bayern Munich figure to embarrass himself with these cringeworthy comments aimed at Nick Woltemade and in particular, Newcastle United.

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge talking to Bayernisch Rundfunk about Newcastle United outbidding Bayern Munich to sign Nick Woltemade:

“When this story with Nick Woltemade and then the demands of Stuttgart came up, I, as well as Uli Hoeness, Herbert Hainer, Jan Dreesen, and Max Eberl, said: guys, we’re reaching figures that I no longer find acceptable.

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

“I can only congratulate the people in Stuttgart for finding…let me use quotation marks here, ‘an idiot’ who paid that much money, because we certainly wouldn’t have done that in Munich.

“We have to find a solution [to being able to compete with the financially all powerful Premier League].

“We can’t keep going higher, further, every year.

“Salaries and transfer fees have been rising rapidly in recent years.

“We can’t continue to operate seriously in this way.

“In England, they now have billionaires.

“Or sometimes even states, that own clubs, like Saudi Arabia, Qatar…