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Bayern future? “Otherwise you are doing something wrong”
Updated on June 20, 2025 – 9:29 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Is the future successor for Harry Kane at FC Bayern from Germany? Stefan Effenberg has a clear opinion.
Ex-international and T-online columnist Stefan Effenberg is enthusiastic about the rapid development of the young star Nick Woltemade. The 56-year-old sees the Stuttgart perspective as a possible successor to Harry Kane at Bayern. “This is a striker that Bayern Munich should be in focus-definitely. Not now, but when Harry Kane goes, at some point,” said the former Munich captain at a media appointment on the sidelines of the current club World Cup in Miami.
The English international is still under contract until 2027. At the latest, according to Effenberg, the club has to deal with alternatives: “Then Nick Woltemade is a player type and also this nine, in which Bayern Munich should worry.” And further: “Otherwise you will do something wrong.”
Woltemade has been under contract with VfB Stuttgart for a year and has so far “performed really well. How he plays football, with its almost two meters. He actually belongs to the basketball court. But that’s a really good footballer,” continued Effenberg. Especially his performance in the cup final against Arminia Bielefeld (4: 2) stood out for Effenberg: “Whoever performs as in Stuttgart as in the DFB Cup final and so on is already made for high ambitions.”
The 23-year-old currently trumps at the U21 European Championship in Slovakia. There he leads the goal scorer list after the preliminary round with four meetings and will meet Italy with Germany on Sunday in the quarter-finals (from 9 p.m. in the T-Online Live ticker). Before the European Championship, Woltemade had played his first two caps in the national team at the Nations League final tournament. He “logically” had many clubs in focus, said Effenberg: “This is a super development of the boy.”
Around a week ago, the “Bild” newspaper reported that scouts from Chelsea Woltemade were observed closely against Portugal and France at the Nation’s League duels. At the U21 European Championship, the English want to deepen the impressions of the attacker (you can read more about this here).