Jamie Carragher hits out at Bayern Munich chief for disrespectful remark about Newcastle hero Nick Woltemade

Jamie Carragher dubbed Bayern Munich government Karl-Heinz Rummenigge ‘a joke’ for his incendiary feedback about his membership’s former goal, Newcastle striker Nick Woltemade.

Newcastle stole a march on the Bundesliga giants of their pursuit of the 23-year-old over the summer time switch window, breaking Stuttgart’s document promoting charge to safe his providers for £65million.

Woltemade’s arrival on Tyneside then allowed Alexander Isak to finish his dreamed-of £125m transfer to Liverpool amid a hostile stalemate between the 2 entities.

However regardless of Woltemade making a promising begin within the Premier League by netting two objectives in his first three appearances in black and white, Rummenigge poured chilly water on the concept he would show a worthwhile funding final week.

The Bayern chief known as Newcastle ‘idiots’ for accepting charge from Stuttgart he implied was outlandish, and steered that Woltemade’s former membership had been making ‘unacceptable’ calls for of their negotiations with the serial champions.

Because the feedback, Woltemade has scored an extra two objectives in each Champions League and Premier League motion.

However Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has been eager to sow doubt over whether or not he was value his charge

And it was the German’s run-out in Newcastle’s 2-0 victory in opposition to Nottingham Forest on Sunday afternoon that had Carragher seeing pink over Rummenigge’s gracelessness.

‘I actually like (Woltemade), and I really noticed that quote a couple of days in the past and it angered me and I’m not a Newcastle United supporter,’ Carragher stated on punditry responsibility for Sky Sports activities.

‘I feel it is a joke actually, coming from somebody who’s a part of a soccer membership, when it comes to Bayern Munich, a very revered soccer membership.

‘He should not be talking about, particularly, one other German participant like that so disrespectfully. That might have been all around the information in Germany, and his household and mates are there.

‘That is our job, we’re pundits, not any individual related to such a unbelievable membership. That’s actually disrespectful, and once I noticed that, I assumed ‘Have you learnt what? I actually hope that lad shoves these phrases down his mouth.’

‘And in the beginning of his Premier League profession, it appears like he’s going to.’

Rummenigge was not alone in seeming to have taken umbrage with Woltemade’s transfer to Newcastle at Bayern, with honorary president Uli Hoeness and sporting director Christoph Freund additionally making jibes within the German press.

‘(Woltemade) is not well worth the charge,’ Hoeness stated in August. ‘(His switch to Newcastle) solely occurred due to the cash flowing from Saudi Arabia.’

Jamie Carragher fumed on the disrespect he believed that Rummenigge had proven in his phrases

Woltemade has been specializing in acting on the pitch and netted two extra objectives this week

Bayern in the meantime drafted in Chelsea’s Nicolas Jackson in a deal value £14.3m for the time period

Freund equally steered that financials had performed a big function within the choice, claiming: ‘It is at all times 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 distinct league. You could have discussions, you could have a sure relationship.

‘In the end, it is the participant’s choice as to what’s the most effective 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.’

After lacking out on Woltemade, Bayern opted to decide on an understudy for Harry Kane from Premier League ranks, making a season-long mortgage transfer for Chelsea’s Nicolas Jackson for £14.3m.

Bayern have an obligation to purchase the Senegal worldwide for £56.2m ought to he make a set variety of appearances.

Woltemade was defended too within the wake of the feedback by his team-mate Anthony Gordon, who said that he discovered Rummenigge’s assertion ‘bizarre’.

‘I do not know why you’d touch upon a participant who just isn’t at your membership,’ Gordon stated after Newcastle 4-0 win in opposition to Union Saint-Gilloise. ‘It’s kind of silly to be trustworthy, particularly when the participant has began rather well.

‘Had he began actually poorly then you definately make that remark, however he is scored three objectives in 4 video games, so it was a little bit of a bizarre remark.’