Retrief poker with Stuttgart
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In the transfer poker around young international Nick Woltemade, FC Bayern, according to sports director Max Eberl, has “not yet a real conversation with VfB Stuttgart”. The sports director of the German record champion complained on the sidelines of the round of 16 against Flamengo Rio de Janeiro at the club World Cup in the USA (4: 2) the transfer journalism and speculations with high million sums.
Also with regard to a dispute between honorary president Uli Hoeneß and ex-professional Lothar Matthäus, Eberl spoke of states like on a “bazaar” and, after the game in the Hard Rock Stadium of Miami, asked the question with the reporters: “Is Nick Woltemade worth 80 million?” Matthew had spoken of such an amount, which in Eberl’s opinion is driving the price up. Allegedly, VfB should even imagine 100 million euros as a transfer fee for the 23 -year -old attacker.
The young star is under contract with the DFB Cup winner until June 30, 2028. Eberl had made it clear before the game that FC Bayern would pay “no moon prices”. So far, FC Bayern had only paid 80 million euros or more for Harry Kane and Lucas Hernández (to the most expensive Bavaria transfers).
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Bayern want Woltemade, and the player apparently wants to go to Munich. “I don’t think Stuttgart wants to pull us over the table,” said Eberl about the sums in the room. There is “a budget, a frame,” said the 51-year-old. “And budget is calculated.” In view of the departures of Thomas Müller and Leroy Sané, there is a need for action.
“I have to save, I have to save”
“I don’t know how often I have been told, I have to save, I have to save, I have to save. And then I am told that I have to buy a player for 80 or 100 million euros. This is absurd,” Eberl noticed: “I can’t be a flag in the wind. We have to have a plan, sometimes you can not.”
In Munich, Woltemade would have to face the greatest sporting competition. But he could also play Champions League and earn significantly more than in Stuttgart. “Nick Woltemade is an incredibly intelligent boy. He will not like it if something like that was installed with an astronomical sum,” said Eberl.
Woltemades market value had already recorded an extreme increase in the last half of the year. Compared to the end of 2024, when the Bremen native was estimated at 7.5 million euros, he is now better off by more than 22 million euros. The value of 30 million euros that Woltemade reached in the Juni update is the third highest in the VfB squad. The increase of EUR 4 million since Woltemades moving from Werder to Stuttgart-an increase of 650 percent-is the largest of the past Bundesliga season at this market value level (to the largest market value winners within the 2024/25 Bundesliga season).