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Nick Woltemade is Newcastle\u2019s new record signing (Owen Humphreys\/PA)<\/p>\n
Bayern Munich chief Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has branded Newcastle as \u2018idiots\u2019 for stumping up such a sizeable fee for German striker Nick Woltemade, despite his bright start to life in the Premier League.<\/p>\n
Woltemade was brought in from Stuttgart in the final days of the summer transfer window for a club-record fee of \u00a369m, acting as the replacement for Alexander Isak, who would get his \u00a3125m move to Liverpool on deadline day.<\/p>\n
The Germany international has kicked into gear quickly on Tyneside, with the 23-year-old notching two goals in three league appearances to date.<\/p>\n
His fast start acts as sore viewing for Bayern, who were themselves interested in signing the frontman and saw three bids rejected from their Bundesliga counterparts before watching the Magpies snap him up.<\/p>\n
But Rummenigge, who acts in a supervisory role on the Bayern board, has made a jibe at Newcastle for meeting Stuttgart\u2019s lofty asking price.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ll be honest: When this story with Woltemade and then the demand from Stuttgart came up, I, as well as Uli Hoene\u00df, Herbert Hainer, Jan Dreesen, and Max Eberl [Bayern board members], said \u2013 folks, we’re slowly getting to a level that I simply don’t find acceptable anymore,\u201d he told BR Sport.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe shouldn’t fulfill every demand to make someone happy, especially the financiers at VfB Stuttgart.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can only congratulate those in Stuttgart for finding \u2013 I’ll use quotation marks here \u2013 an idiot who paid that much money. Because we certainly wouldn’t have done that in Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n
In response to Rummenigge’s comments, Stuttgart executive Alexander Wehrle told Bild: “We are always happy when we get congratulations from Munich.”<\/p>\n
Bayern were said to have been left \u201csurprised and disappointed\u201d by Woltemade\u2019s move to Newcastle, having been told by Stuttgart that he was not for sale.<\/p>\n
Woltemade scored 17 goals for Stuttgart last season in 33 appearances in all competitions, including 12 goals in 28 matches in the Bundesliga, and was then the top scorer in the summer\u2019s European Under-21 Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Woltemade is Newcastle\u2019s new record signing (Owen Humphreys\/PA) Bayern Munich chief Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has branded Newcastle as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,1270,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-94798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-newcastle-united","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}