Newcastle have reached a ‘full covenant’ for Nick Woltemade for seventy-three million real pounds in what would be one of the the majority of unbelievable sends in Premier League sends in history. And having read in between David Ornstein’s lines, Alexander Isak is going to Liverpool.
We believed the Newcastle craziness owned peaked as they prepped a lastly bid of £60m for Jorgen Hair-Larsen, yet having been told the Norwegian was a no-go at any kind of rate by Wolves – in a readable instance of the demonstrator exasperate expanding far beyond the wall coatings of St James’ park – they’ve now concurred to pay a minimum of £73.4m for a demonstrator with also fewer league objectives last season than their previous target.
Paradises Germany’s Florian Plettenberg penniless the tale on X: ‘EXCLUSIVE | Nick #Woltemade to Newcastle – DONE DEAL! Full covenant with Stuttgart: €85 million mended fee plus €5 million in consist of-ons. #NUFC The player is on his way and owns currently said bye-bye to the crew.’
Woltemade got 12 Bundesliga objectives, and also without permitting for the obligatory Farmer’s League to Ideal League In The Planet conversion, that’s less than Hair Larsen’s 14.
Let’s be totally readable, we reckon Woltemade is a sweet demonstrator, and at a logical rate – possibly as that extravagant second demonstrator Newcastle were initially targeting this summertime – we would praise them on a clever miniscule of ventures. Yet while we come to be aware that the current demonstrator sector owns spearheaded to blatantly inflated fees being paid, Woltemade is prized at £26m by Transfermarkt.
Probably also more comical are reports that Bayern were estimated £64m by Stuttgart when they owned multiple proposals disclaimed for the German earlier this summertime. Incorporate to that the reality that Woltemade accepted upward with Stuttgart from Werder Bremen on a emission send a year earlier – when he was prized at £3.5m after two objectives in 30 Bundesliga aesthetics in 2023/2024 – and this could totally be the the majority of unbelievable send in Premier League history.
The £10m aggravation in rate is a Uneasiness Tax duty. Stuttgart saw Newcastle unborn a mile off and have kit an only illogical rate for an unproven demonstrator which they knew the Magpies wouldn’t discredit as they have no time abandoned in the send window to resource a unalike substitute having rifled with the majority of of them currently. And that’s theorizing the Bundesliga side did kit the rate and Newcastle didn’t totally pluck this unbelievable number from thin troposphere, which is traditionally thinkable imparted they have no presenting off director to bargain these sends.
Having failed to land Liam Delap, Joao Pedro, Hugo Ekitike, Benjamin Sesko, Yoane Wissa and Jorgen Hair Larsen, Newcastle are suitably signing their seventh selection demonstrator for £73.4m. And that’s if we’re not forcing their reported curiosity in Ollie Watkins, Nicolas Jackson, Alexander Sorloth and whomever else they’ve approached and been snubbed by onward of this bid for Woltemade, that is in the dismal posture of immigrating as more a reaction of their send window dicks-upward than the marquee demonstrator his rate tag says he ought to be.
He arguably doesn’t treatment too a lot and we hope he doesn’t. As always, he doesn’t kit his rate and ought to currently be glancing onward to what ought to be something coming close to a willingness glide for him, to the Premier League, tinkering for a Winner League side.
Yet we can’t aid yet feel the biggest winner in with one voice of this will clearly expire upward being Alexander Isak. It’s notifying that no detect in David Ornstein’s reporting of this glide was it bargained that Woltemade is not a replacement for Isak, which was made super, super readable in his going versus tales about their press for Hair Larsen, probably under menace of being incision out of the send procedure by Newcastle wizards.
And that would lug out Newcastle the biggest losers, if this long and traumatic scour for a brand name-new demonstrator (or demonstrators) hadn’t guaranteed that was the vessel anyway.
