DFB star before a surprising change
FC Bayern reacts and teases against Newcastle
29.08.2025 – 12:45 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The upcoming transfer from Nick Woltemade to Newcastle causes excitement. Now FC Bayern is also speaking up, who originally wanted to hire the player.
Bavaria’s sports director Christoph Freund sees the upcoming move from Nick Woltemade to England as another signal for the different balance of power in European football. The German champion also tried intensively for the 23-year-old shooting star of VfB Stuttgart. However, it is now facing a transfer for up to 90 million euros to Newcastle United.
“How many players have switched from the Bundesliga to the Premier League in the past twelve months and also during this transfer time”, and “which sums are flowing”, you can see what “brutal possibilities” the English league, said the 48-year-old friend on Friday. Newcastle is “a good club”, but has not belonged to the “top category” over the past few years. A small tie in the direction of the English.
Woltemade agreed with the Munich team this summer. With his offers, however, the record champions flashed at VfB. Much indicated that the striker remains at least this season in Stuttgart. Then came the turn – the move to Newcastle is imminent. Previously, Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen and Hugo Ekitiké from Eintracht Frankfurt had gone to FC Liverpool in England this summer.
The competition from England attracts sums that are hardly imaginable in the Bundesliga – but at FC Bayern you can still see no reason to restlessness. Christoph Freund made it clear that players could not only feel comfortable with the German record champion, but also win titles. The club is a “very, very big” and “very, very attractive” club, says Freund. As far as transfers are concerned, however, however, it is always the personal decision of a player where he sees the next step.
The Premier League games “financially in a different league,” said the Austrian. “But we as Bayern Munich are also very, very strong and are aware of our role.” You just have to go your own way, cannot copy that of the English clubs. It has long been like that the Premier League clubs have more money. Nevertheless, there are always teams that could keep up in terms of sport.
Bayern coach Vincent Kompany mentioned the enormous TV revenue as the reason for the financial overweight of the Premier League. When his former club Burnley got up, the Belgian said that there was suddenly received 100 million euros in television money.