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Faced with 70 million blackmail, Bayern admits defeat, 55 million cannot buy local new stars, but actually has another move

12:28pm, 16 August 2025【Football】

According to Tobias Otschaf, deputy editor-in-chief of German Bistro, German local star Walter Mad is gradually drifting away from joining Bayern Munich because Bayern executives believe that Stuttgart's asking price is too unreasonable and far exceeds the players' due value, so they take the initiative to withdraw from negotiations.

On Wednesday, Bayern and Stuttgart each attended a match for about 20 minutes. The three executives attending Bayern were CEO: Christian Deresen, sports director: Marx Eber, sports director: Christopher Floyd. Stuttgart is also very high in specifications, with CEOs: Alexander Villerle, sports director Fabian Walgmut, sports director Christian Gentner.

From the players who appear, you can understand the importance of this meeting. According to exclusive disclosure by Biography, Bayern's bid for Walter Mad reached 55 million euros, with a payment method of 100% cash and no installment terms. In order to join Bayern, Walter Made's agent team also agreed to give up the broker commission, which was originally as high as 10% of the transfer fee.

However, the Stuttgart team's attitude was firm and they had to kill 70 million euros to take away the local star. When Bayern senior executives found that the other party had no interest in bargaining, they decisively ended the meeting and the negotiations fell into a state of breaking down.

Objectively speaking, this transfer negotiation itself is still too arrogant. Waltermad's current turnover in Germany is 30 million euros. According to most transfer estimates, a quotation of 20% exceeding Germany's transfer is considered a normal premium. If players urgently need it, there is also a possibility of 30%-40%. But the current asking price for Stuttgart has reached 230%, which is a full premium of 130%, which seems too outrageous.

Judging from the players' technical characteristics and performance, Walter Made started 22 games in 33 games last season, scoring 17 goals and assisting 3 times. Although the data is still efficient, many new stars in the Bundesliga are not very outstanding.

Although he is 198CM tall, he is not a traditional powerful center, but a skilled player. It is really hard to predict what kind of effect this type of player can play in the giants.

In fact, the real value of Waltermaid lies in his German nationality. After Werner's fall, Germany was thirsty for an excellent shooter forward, and he was an orthodox Germanic white man, which made him very popular in Germany. It was also the reason why Bayern was still willing to invite him to join the team even though it was difficult for him to place his position in the tactical system.

Of course, Stuttgart dared to speak out because the team has the opportunity to participate in the Champions League next season. Considering that this season, the Bundesliga has sold high-priced centers such as Ekitic and Seshko, if Waltermad can play in the Champions League, the Bundesliga can still maintain around 20 goals, and it is possible to sell 70 million, or even 100 million euros next season. With such expectations, they dare to quote such a high price to Bayern.

In fact, the media believes that Bayern's retreat this time is not really giving up the competition for players. At least in terms of the players' own wishes, Walter Mad hopes to join Bayern, which can be seen from the fact that his agent team gave up commissions to facilitate the transaction, and Bayern is also good at letting players put pressure on the club. Considering that Waltermaid only has Bayern’s next home this time, there shouldn’t be a situation like Wilz’s failure to put pressure on him and was poached by foreign tycoons, so Bayern should not give up on this method.