Augsburg manager Stefan Reuter criticizes transfer fees: “This is madness”

Manager Stefan Reuter from FC Augsburg has criticized the enormously high international transfer fees. “When you see what is partially being spent there, that’s madness,” said the 55-year-old Augsburger Allgemeine: “If Paris allegedly rejects a transfer of 200 million euros for Mbappe for a one-year remaining contract, the player will cost the player a total of 250 million euros for this season. That gives one pause.”

In the Bundesliga you noticed this summer that Corona had changed business. But internationally “the big clubs often don’t have to earn the money”.

A move from a superstar like Lionel Messi to Germany is currently unimaginable for Reuter. “Because the big clubs in Germany, like us, need a certain hierarchy and hygiene within the squad,” said Reuter: “If you pay a player twice as much as the current top earner, who is also a world footballer, you can wait for the top Five in the squad come and say, I want more now. “