Usually, it is Bayern Munich supervisory board member Uli Hoeneß with the razor-sharp tongue, but this time it was Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, who put Newcastle United on blast for the transfer fee it paid VfB Stuttgart for Nick Woltemade.
“I’ll be honest, when this story with Woltemade and then the demands of Stuttgart came up, I, as well as Uli, Herbert Hainer, Jan Dreesen, and Max Eberl, said: ‘Guys, we are 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,” Rummenigge said during an appearance on BR24 (as captured by @iMiaSanMia).
Per Transfermarkt, Newcastle United paid €75 million + another €5 million in add-ons, which exceeded the comfort level of the Bavarians.
Clearly, that irked Bayern Munich.
Bayern Munich is cruising and heading into another Champions League, so let’s take a look at the factors that have powered the team so far.
Harry Kane has been a beast, the squad is driven, and — by and large — personnel decisions have worked out well. Let’s get into all of that and more on this edition of the Bavarian Podcast Works Show. This is what we have on tap:
- Why has Harry Kane been better than ever? (Less need for him to work in build-up, better complimentary players around him — losing Sane and Coman was massive, more aggressive attacking game plan and sometime more direct, truly the focal point
- Is it possible that Harry Kane will stay at Bayern Munich? He is not dismissing the possibility.
- Yes! We avoided a #BayernKaren situation. We are rejoicing this in Philadelphia.
- Tying up some loose ends — let’s check in on Leroy Sane, Kingsley Coman, João Palhinha, Paul Wanner, Mathys Tel, and Adam Aznou.
