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After having two opening bids rejected by VfB Stuttgart, Bayern Munich has briefly tabled their pursuit of striker Nick Woltemade. The striker has made it clear that he wish to go away for Bayern however Stuttgart have confirmed that they’ll stay resilient in driving a tough cut price and never letting their striker go for lower than they need to. His present market worth is 30 million euros, however even Bayern’s newest supply of simply shy of fifty million was not sufficient to get Stuttgart to budge.
As such, Bayern’s focus for now’s on attempting to land Liverpool winger Luis Diaz, however the Premier League champions have additionally been insistent that the Colombian just isn’t on the market, although that language popping out of Merseyside was previous to them securing Hugo Ekitike from Eintracht Frankfurt.
Sarcastically sufficient, nicely earlier than the summer time switch window ends, Bayern face Stuttgart within the DFL-Supercup on August sixteenth, which is now generally known as the Franz Beckenbauer Cup. Per info from Bild journalist Julian Agardi (through @iMiaSanMia), Stuttgart supervisor Sebastian Hoeneß could be very a lot contemplating the thought of not taking part in Woltemade within the Supercup towards Bayern on the MHP Enviornment. Even that does wind up occurring, there’s definitely alternative ways of decoding it.
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For starters, Woltemade is barely anticipated again in coaching on the twenty eighth of this month after a while off following his involvement with the German U-21s on the U-21 EUROs, so he gained’t have a lot coaching time in his legs previous to the Supercup. In what could be a extra cynical strategy to viewing this, Hoeneß may very well be, in a approach, punishing his participant for being so brazen about his want to affix Bayern, however a lot of the noise popping out of the press is solely due to that truth that he’s linked with the German Rekordmeister and is on the coronary heart of switch information in Germany this summer time.
Both approach, there may be nonetheless rather a lot that might transpire prior to now and August sixteenth. Bayern might wind up coming in with a suggestion that Stuttgart will need to take heed to, or Bayern might wind up deciding to only stroll away altogether and maintain focusing their switch efforts elsewhere out there.
