Bayern Munich have a long tradition of buying their Bundesliga rival’s biggest stars. They lost the battle for Leverkusen’s Florian Wirtz to Liverpool, but have now set their sights on Stuttgart’s German international, Nick Woltemade. An agreement between Bayern and the 23-year-old was in place, but here it says stop. That does not mean that Germany’s most powerful club is giving up.
Bayern Munich management have decided to drain the club of the striker who was behind 12 Bundesliga goals in 28 games, but the €55 million bid for Woltemade has been quickly rejected by Stuttgart. Bayern’s sporting director was of course asked before the start of the Bundesliga about the status of the Woltermade process.
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“In this transfer window – there has been so much talk about it – it is simply out of the question (the transfer of Nick Woltemade),” Bayern’s sporting director Max Eberl begins at a press conference.
This does not mean that the Bundesliga giant has given up on the striker who has mentally prepared to put on the Bayern shirt.
– I have no idea what will happen before September 1. Maybe Stuttgart will loan him out to us, because we have the opportunity to bring in players on loan. Maybe we can be creative, I don’t know. And what happens next summer, that is still very far into the future, Eberl thinks out loud in front of German journalists.
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