"I'll be honest: When this story with Woltemade and then the demand from Stuttgart came up, I, as well as Uli, Herbert Hainer, Jan Dreesen, and Max Eberl, said - folks, we're slowly getting to a level that I simply don't find acceptable anymore,"
"We shouldn't fulfill every demand to make someone happy, especially the financiers at VfB Stuttgart."
"I can only congratulate those in Stuttgart for finding - I'll use quotation marks here - an idiot who paid that much money. Because we certainly wouldn't have done that in Munich."
Karl‑Heinz Rummenigge criticized Newcastle United for paying £65 million to sign Nick Woltemade from Stuttgart, calling those who paid the fee 'idiots'. Newcastle completed the club‑record signing late in the transfer window, shortly before Alexander Isak moved to Liverpool for £125 million. Woltemade has scored two goals in his first three Premier League appearances. Bayern Munich had pursued Woltemade as back‑up to Harry Kane and submitted three bids that Stuttgart turned down. Stuttgart initially ruled out selling Woltemade before agreeing the transfer, provoking public displeasure from several Bayern officials.
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