Bayern Munich secured that signing of Luis Diaz from Liverpool for a fee of around 75 million euros, but the move for VfB Stuttgart striker Nick Woltemade still hangs in the balance. After having their first two bids quickly rejected by Stuttgart, Bayern had temporarily paused their pursuit of the German striker to focus on getting the Diaz deal over the line and looking at other areas of the transfer market, but now there’s added impetus again.
The Swabians want to keep hold of Woltemade, but the
striker has expressed his desire to leave, and only for Bayern. That makes things look rather easy on paper, but Stuttgart do not want to let their man go for anything shy of 100-million euros, whilst he is valuated in the market around 30-million. Stuttgart have been reluctant to sit down with Bayern at the negotiating table, and their front office is maintaining their stance that the striker won’t leave this summer.
In a very recent interview with tz (via @iMiaSanMia), Stuttgart CEO Alexander Wehrle remained resolute in the club’s stance that Woltemade is not for sale right now. “I stick with what I said five weeks ago: We want to go with Nick into the new season - and if something extraordinary happens, we are ready to sit on the table. Nothing has changed regarding that. The first competitive game takes place on 16 August - and then we want to have a team together, with which we go to the new season,” he stressed.
“Extraordinary” is the operative word with what Wehrle said, though. Would that mean an offer in excess of 100 million from Bayern? Would it be somewhere in between what Bayern has already bid and 100-million? Even Wehrle could not come up with a concrete answer when he was asked, specifically, what it would take for Stuttgart to even consider selling Woltemade to Bayern.
“It’s [extraordinary] not definitive. Because we don’t want to sell him. The situation has not changed (no new offer),” Wehrle said.
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