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| Thomas Muller is a transfer target for Manchester United |
BAYERN MUNICH chief Karl Heinz Rummenigge has admitted it is very difficult to keep hold of their best players due to the financial power of the Premier League.
The likes of Thomas Muller, Mario Gotze and Robert Lewandowski were all linked with moves to the likes of Man Utd, Arsenal and Chelsea during the summer transfer window.
Premier League teams spent £870m on transfers with £161.6m going on players in the Bundesliga.
And Rummenigge feels the financial gap between the two leagues has grown so much, the Bundesliga is increasingly vulnerable to top players moving to England.
He told Bloomberg Television: "We have an incredibly big gap between paid TV in England and paid TV in Germany. First of all, I believe we in the German league made big mistakes if we talk around 10, 12, 15 years ago when the paid TV market was established and then built and developed in England.
"We were very slow in believing that the clock maybe in Germany is going different than in England but it doesn't go different.
"So, that is a big, big problem in the transfer market, because the English clubs have so much money available in that market that it is not easy to defend.
"We keep our best players here in Bayern Munich like Thomas Muller or players from Real Madrid like Sergio Ramos because they have big requests from England, so it is very difficult to keep them."
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