Eddie Howe says Karl-Heinz Rummenigge's claim that Newcastle United were "idiots" for paying £69m for Nick Woltemade is "irrelevant".
The Bayern Munich supervisory board member congratulated Stuttgart for "finding an idiot who will pay that much money" and stressed "we would have certainly not done that" during an interview with Blickpunkt Sport.
The Bundesliga champions had previously failed with multiple bids to sign the Germany
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