Nick Woltemade wants to leave VfB Stuttgart in summer to join FC Bayern. Former VfB sports director Fredi Bobic does not believe in it.
“I would not advise him to leave the club now. An interest in Bavaria or other top clubs is of course always tempting. In my view, it would be too early, and it doesn’t run away,” said Fredi Bobic in an interview with “ran.de”.
Instead, the 23-year-old, who is currently the best goal scorer of the tournament at the U21 European Championship and with his team on Saturday evening (9:00 p.m.) in the final against England, should “play constantly at a top level for a year or two”. The 53-year-old pushed after: “Then he would be ready for a big club.”
VfB Stuttgart alone is currently “the right club” for Nick Woltemade, because: “They are well there, play European, Sebastian Hoeneß relies on him and he gets his minutes. That would not be so safe with Bavaria.”
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Bobic: Woltemade from Kanes level “A little bit away”
Nick Woltemade has already agreed on a contract with the Munich team after talks about a new working paper at VfB Stuttgart have not been expedient in the past few weeks. There he is actually still bound until 2028.
In the system of Bayern Munich’s head coach Vincent Kompany, Nick Woltemade could act in the middle storm and on the ten. In both positions, however, the German record champion has absolute top stars: Harry Kane and Jamal Musiala. In any case, the U21 star from the level of a Harry Kane is “a bit away,” said Bobic.
“Sure, as now written, he could also be the successor to Thomas Müller in the position behind it – but Müller was just backup from Jamal Musiala,” Bobic noted: “And Nick Woltemade is too bad for the replacement bank, especially in his young age.”
Fredi Bobic has a long cooperation with VfB Stuttgart. As a player, he kicked for the Swabians between 1994 and 1999, won the DFB Cup in 1997. Between 2010 and 2014 he worked as a sports director and board member for VfB Stuttgart.