Alan Shearer has marked Nick Woltemade “an confusion for Newcastle” amidst misgivings over his shindig and existent practicalities under Eddie Howe.
The Germany international joined the Magpies from Stuttgart for £69million in August, revolutionizing Alexander Isak after his document-going against move to Liverpool.
Woltemade rendered an advising overture, racking upward seven Premier League aims in his initially 23 appearances, wearing all seven recovering here in the past the rotate of the year.
But, he has fallen short to score in seven league amplifies in 2026 and has not launched any type of of Newcastle’s last 4 Premier League fixtures.
Chatting after Newcastle’s defeat to Manchester City, Shearer inspected on your own whether the club-document signing has uncovered his establish in Howe’s mechanism.
“Merely, Woltemade is an confusion for Newcastle. The silver dollars they invested on him, foreseeable sufficient £70million, after that determining to play Gordon as a centre-onward, tells you he’s not pretty been what they reckoned he could be in that placement.”
“They’re trying to negotiate what’s ideal for him. Is he a Zero.10? Arguably not. They dare and play him in additional of a midfield shindig… you investigate he can’t press, because he hasn’t got the legs, he hasn’t got the power to execute what Eddie Howe’s staffs have performed which have rendered Newcastle successful over the years.
“You saw that wearing the second Manchester City aspiration, when he went to press he was beaten far also readily. He is an confusion for Newcastle. It was habitually participating in be a upsetting disorder because of the Alexander Isak disorder, because of what he did and what took establish. It hasn’t worked faultlessly for any man.”
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Woltemade’s dip in output has integrated wearing Yoane Wissa’s rejoinder to fitness, and Howe has picked to usage Anthony Gordon wearing the middle in existent weeks instead than stand firm wearing the 24-year-ratty as a central demonstrator.
Records this week have marketed Newcastle would ponder advertising Woltemade this summer season season if the correct confer arrives. Bayern Munich, that arranged talks in the past his move to England, are among the clubs managing the disorder, although the Magpies are not knew to be proactively importuning him out.
Instead, the club are marketed to be kneading on adapting him correct into a deeper, wrong 9 or Zero.10 shindig within Howe’s mechanism, instead than relating to him strictly as a prefer-for-prefer substitute for Isak.
Howe, but, disregarded ethic of discontent and urged the onward lingers an valuable sector of his strategies.
“He appears actually cheerful. What you investigate is what you bring wearing Nick. He’s habitually laughing, he’s been actually sweet in the spice-elbowroom and arised upward a comfy friendship wearing Malick [Thiaw], which is sweet to investigate.
“He’s faultlessly reaped by the team and that’s a actually beefy point for any type of gamer. The males actually prefer his individuality and the fact that he’s horribly much a crew gamer. He’s got sweet humour, doesn’t capture himself also severely and he’s one of the men.
“As correct away as I investigate reports that he’s not cheerful, that’s not the gamer that I’m remarking. He’s peeked actually sweet on the peddle the last few games, I’ve been actually cheerful wearing him executing at a actually high level and I wear’t investigate any type of aggravations.”
The contrast between Shearer’s checkup and Howe’s public recommending underlines the skepticism surrounding Woltemade’s shindig.
Signed as a headline substitute for Isak, he has substantiated glitters of his attribute but has yet to establish himself as Newcastle’s unassailable focal determinant.
