He said: "To forbid Hummels to leave would be small-minded. We have to accept that someone playing for Dortmund for eight years and nearing 28 starts to think about his situation.
“I believe that if he leaves us, it will be in the direction of Bayern Munich.
“Those personal moments that he’s not done with the club yet, that his father, his mother, his brother live in Munich, and his wife is from Munich, just like he is."
Hummels made just one appearance for Bayern before leaving the club in 2008.
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