Everyone is talking about Nick Woltemade. The striker of VfB Stuttgart absolutely wants to switch to Bayern. The million-dollar poker begins. Does it come to the Gomez scenario in the end?
The Bundesliga talks about the poker around Nick Woltemade. FC Bayern wants to bring the attacker into the team. The player also wants to join the Munich team.
Internally, he is said to have deposited the VfB bosses the change of change. The record champion made the Swabian a first offer. According to reports, the ideas of the two clubs are still very further apart about the transfer. Stuttgart sits on the longer lever. The attacker’s contract runs until 2028, has no exit clause. The transfer fee is therefore freely negotiable.
According to information from RTL/NTV and Sport.de the player side wants to sit down with the DFB Cup winner in the near future in order to reduce the VfB demand and to prepare the way for a change from the two-time national player to the Isar.
A young German striker from VfB to Bayern – that awakens memories of Mario Gomez. At the end of the 2000s, the national player at VfB made the breakthrough, became German champion (2007).
As early as 2007 and 2008, the Munich team showed great interest in Gomez. At that time it was about a transfer fee of around 20 million euros. VfB initially remained hard.
Veh convinced Gomez from whereabouts
The then coach Armin Veh explains in the “Bild”: “It’s a bit similar. Mario also wanted to go to Bavaria, who doesn’t want it as a young player? We met on vacation in a restaurant near Ulm, between Stuttgart and Augsburg. I then spoke to Mario for a long time and told him: Mario, we still need you, you just have to stay with us!”
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Gomez has a “flawless character, is a super-kerl. Even if he wanted to go, he said: Okay, coach, if that is that I don’t get away, I accept it and stay there.”
So Gomez stayed a season and then snapped 35 times in 44 competitive games. It almost even enough for VfB to the championship again, the Swabians finished third behind Bavaria and Wolfsburg.
After this season, the striker switched to the Isar for 30 million euros.
Could Woltemade be similar now? “I can imagine that,” says Veh.