Bayern Munich chief brands Newcastle ‘IDIOTS’ for stumping up £65m for Nick Woltemade – despite his impressive start with Magpies

Bayern Munich legend Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has insisted Newcastle are ‘idiots’ for paying a £65million price to signal Nick Woltemade in the summertime switch window.

The Magpies signed the ahead from Stuttgart in a membership report deal within the last days of the switch window, with Alexander Isak then finishing a protracted £125million transfer to Liverpool.

Woltemade has made a powerful begin to life on Tyneside with the 23-year-old having scored two targets in his three Premier League appearances thus far.

The German worldwide had been a goal of reigning Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich through the switch window, with expectation he would function back-up to Harry Kane.

Bayern board member Max Eberl had publicly confirmed their curiosity in finishing a deal, with the German giants then seeing three bids turned down by Stuttgart.

Stuttgart had dominated out Woltemade’s departure from the membership, just for Newcastle to swoop within the last days of the switch window.

Woltemade has impressed to date at Newcastle with two in his first three league matches

Rummenigge branded Newcastle ‘idiots’ for agreeing to Stuttgart’s calls for for Woltemade

Rummenigge, a supervisory board member at Bayern, has continued the membership’s latest digs at Newcastle and Woltemade for the reason that deal was accomplished.

‘I will be trustworthy: When this story with Woltemade after which the demand from Stuttgart got here up, I, in addition to Uli, Herbert Hainer, Jan Dreesen, and Max Eberl, stated – people, we’re slowly attending to a stage that I merely do not discover acceptable anymore,’ he advised the BR programme ‘Blickpunkt Sport’.

‘We should not fulfill each demand to make somebody pleased, particularly the financiers at VfB Stuttgart.

‘I can solely congratulate these in Stuttgart for locating – I am going to use citation marks right here – an fool who paid that a lot cash. As a result of we definitely would not have completed that in Munich.’

Stories from Germany following Woltemade’s transfer to Newcastle had claimed Bayern had been left ‘stunned and disenchanted’ by his transfer.

Woltemade’s choice had been referenced by a number of Bayern officers, with Rummenigge’s feedback following earlier digs made by honorary president Uli Hoeness and sports activities director Christoph Freund.

‘He [Woltemade] is not well worth the price. That solely occurred due to the cash flowing from Saudi Arabia,’ Hoeness claimed final month.

Freund had prompt Woltemade had been attracted by the funds on provide within the Premier League, as he tried to elucidate why a Bayern goal had moved to Newcastle.

Uli Hoeness, left, and Rummenigge are amongst Bayern chiefs to criticise Woltemade’s transfer

‘Bayern Munich is Bayern Munich, a really, very massive membership,’ Freund stated final month. ‘The boys can win titles right here, we are able to provide them very attention-grabbing choices internationally, and domestically as properly.

‘It is all the time the participant’s choice. We at Bayern Munich are very, very engaging, we discover that repeatedly after we discuss to gamers. Financially, the Premier League is in a special league. You’ve gotten discussions, you might have a sure relationship.

‘Finally, it is the participant’s choice as to what’s one of the best step for his profession. We’re not concerned in that.

‘The sums of cash concerned; how a lot cash is at stake; that they’ve brutal alternatives within the Premier League. Not simply two or three golf equipment, many golf equipment. Newcastle is an efficient membership, however not the highest tier.’

Woltemade had joined Newcastle on a six-year deal after a powerful season at Stuttgart, the place he had scored 17 targets in 33 matches in all competitions.

The ahead’s efficiency had seen him break into Germany’s nationwide staff with the 23-year-old having earned 4 caps for his nation.