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Stuttgart to break bank for Klaas

16 Jul 2009 - 07:07:36

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Stuttgart chairman Erwin Staudt has said the club are willing to part with "extraordinary money" to sign Klaas-Jan Huntelaar from Real Madrid.

Real have confirmed that negotiations are ongoing over the sale of the player, who only arrived in Spain in January.

The Netherlands international is seen as surplus to requirements at the Bernabeu following the arrivals of Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka and Karim Benzema.

Huntelaar had been linked with a move to the Premier League, but the Bundesliga club are keen to sign the former Ajax player to replace Mario Gomez.

"Extraordinary players require extraordinary investments as they cost extraordinary money," Staudt told Stuttgarter Zeitung.

"We will not be buying a substitute because we are also developing very good players in our own academy.

"We need a key player, a top-class man for the future.

"Such signatures require time and money, and we are willing to invest time and money into buying this player."