While Newcastle United were called ‘idiots’ by some at Bayern Munich for paying £69m for Nick Woltemade, the big German has continued to silence his doubters.
Newcastle’s Premier League form had been a concern prior to our 2-1 win over Man City, with us 14th in the Premier League, consistently poor away from home and still adjusting after a chaotic summer left us with a completely different strike force.
However, it’s becoming very clear that we signed a top-class footballer, superb technician and potential goal-machine in Woltemade, who may be a superb link man but also knows how to put the ball in the back of the net.
His three goals for Germany over the international break offered a reminder of his quality in front of goal, adding to what has been a sensational 2025 for the striker after doing some digging.
Having looked at his numbers over his end to the 2024/25 season at Stuttgart, his prolific run at this summer’s Under-21s Euros, his start to life at Newcastle and record with Germany since breaking into Julian Nagelmann’s senior team, his output has been outstanding.
Factoring in all of the above, Woltemade has scored 31 goals for club and country so far in 2025; and he will no doubt add to that over our final 10 games of the calendar year.
This calendar year, he’s scored:
- 12 goals for Stuttgart in the Bundesliga and DKB-Pokal
- 3 goals for Germany Under-21s in friendlies (hat-trick vs Spain)
- 6 goals for Germany at Under-21 Euros (golden boot)
- 4 goals for Newcastle in the Premier League
- 1 goal for Newcastle in the Champions League
- 1 goal for Newcastle in the Carabao Cup
- 4 goals for Germany in World Cup qualifiers
Since ending the second half of 2024/25 with 14 goals for club and country, Woltemade has followed that with another 17 goals over the first half of 2025/26 for club and country, if we’re including his six at the U21 Euros in the latter.
For a 23-year-old who was not a Stuttgart regular in the early stages of 2024/25 and has since moved to a new country, new league and stepped into Alexander Isak’s shoes at the end of a turbulent summer on Tyneside, his rise has been nothing short of incredible.
The challenge now for Eddie Howe and Newcastle is to create more for our 6ft 6″ striker, who is clearly clinical if he and his teammates find him in the box more often.
It was good to see him miss a few chances against Citeh, if you know what I mean. On another day he could have scored a hattrick, but their keeper is a great shot stopper, so there wasn’t really a glaring miss. The important thing was that he was getting into positions to score, and he was being given chances.
Kevin(Quote)
Totally agree. Getting him in the box and creating chances for him is a positive sign!
Olly Hawkins(Quote)
… and give him more of Murphy’s assists!!! Look at Isak … he would deny that without Murphy’s assists he is not world class anymore!
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