Bayern Munich Executive Calls Newcastle United‘s Woltemade Feeโฃ ‘Unacceptable’
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, a member of Bayern Munich’s supervisory board, sharply criticized Newcastle United’s โฌ80 million transfer โขfeeโ for VfB Stuttgart’s โNick Woltemade, labeling the expenditure excessiveโฃ and โsuggesting Newcastle overpaid substantially. โThe โcomments,made during an appearance on BR24,highlight a growing concern โwithin Bayern Munich regardingโ inflatedโ transfer fees in the current market.
Rummenigge,alongside Uliโ Hoeneร,Herbert hainer,Jan Dreesen,and Max Eberl,reportedlyโค expressed discomfort with the โขpriceโ tag,stating,”I’ll โขbe โhonest,when this story with Woltemade and then the demands of Stuttgart came up,I,as well asโฃ uli,Herbert Hainer,Jan Dreesen,and Max โฃEberl,said: ‘Guys,we are reaching figures that I no longer find acceptable.’ โขWe shouldn’t โmeet โฃevery demand to make someone happy, especially the financiers at Stuttgart.” He โwent on to say, “Iโฃ can only congratulate โthe people in Stuttgart for finding – let me use quotation marks โคhere – ‘an idiot’ โคwho paid that much money, because we certainly wouldn’t โhave done that inโ Munich.”
Newcastle United secured Woltemadeโค for โฌ75โ million with an โadditional โฌ5 million in potential add-ons, a โฃfigure that exceeded Bayernโ Munich’s valuation of theโข player.โ Whileโค Bayern Munich is currently performing strongly andโฃ preparing for another Champions League campaign, the transfer โฃfeeโข has clearly registered as โa point of contention withinโ the club’sโฃ leadership, signaling a potential reluctance to engage in similar bidding wars in the future.
