Newcastle United’s Nick Woltemade responds to Karl-Heinz Rummenigge’s controversial ‘idiot’ comment following €75m summer move

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Speaking to Bild am Sonntag (via @iMiaSanMia), Newcastle United striker Nick Woltemade has responded to comments about him in the summer.

Following his move to Newcastle from Stuttgart for €75m, Bayern Munich’s Karl-Heinz Rummenigge called the Premier League side ‘idiots’ due to the fee that they paid for the 23-year-old on deadline day. 

In his response to the comment, Woltemade said:

“My teammates commented on it, I didn’t. I think that was the right thing to do. A lot was made of my name, Bayern, and transfer fee during the summer; that was the story of the summer. To answer your question: the headlines everywhere said “idiots.” – But I read Mr….