‘Not worth it’ – Newcastle told they overspent on Alexander Isak replacement

Bayern Munich’s honorary president, Uli Hoeness, has delivered a scathing swipe at Newcastle over the signing of Nick Woltemade.

The Bundesliga champions had been closely within the German striker previous to his club-record £69million transfer to the Magpies.

The deal eclipsed the £63m Newcastle forked out to signal Alexander Isaac in 2022, who mockingly accomplished a British switch report £125m transfer to Liverpool on deadline day.

The arrival of Woltemade ended Eddie Howe’s summer-long hunt for a striker after lacking out on a number of targets.

The 23-year-old seemed to be one of many names on that listing, having been earmarked to remain in his homeland by becoming a member of Bayern Munich.

Nonetheless, Vincent Kompany’s facet didn’t agree a price with rivals Stuttgart, which opened the door for Newcastle to hijack the transfer.

Throughout negotiations, Hoeness was left angered by Bayern legend Lothar Matthaus seemingly driving up Woltemade’s price ticket by publicly claiming €80-100m (£69-86m) was a good valuation when the Bavarians had been providing lots much less.

The decrease finish of that estimation finally proved to be precisely what Stuttgart managed to extract from Newcastle.

Throughout an interview with German TV channel SPORT1, Hoeness was requested about Matthaus’ appropriate prediction and replied: “He was simply fortunate.

“He [Woltemade] is not definitely worth the €90million”, Bayern’s honorary president continued in a dig at Newcastle and their PIF house owners.

“That solely occurred due to the cash flowing from Saudi Arabia.”

The signing of Woltemade represented an enormous coup for Newcastle, given Bayern noticed three bids rejected for the 6ft 6ins ahead.

5

5

‘Bayern had been ready to go all in for him’

European soccer skilled Andy Brassell was beforehand filled with reward for Woltemade forward of his arrival on Tyneside.

Talking on The Switch Insiders final month, he mentioned: “I believe he’ll be a very good addition, and it’s actually spectacular how they’ve saved this on the down-low as a result of they preserve getting gazumped by different golf equipment.

“Bayern had been ready to go all in for him. They had been very, very eager. He was eager to go there. They would not get to the quantity that Newcastle have, and it has been a meteoric rise for him as a result of he arrived on a free switch from Werder Bremen, the place he wasn’t a daily, and Stuttgart have turned him into this participant within the house of lower than a yr.

“In case you are searching for somebody who is sort of a devoted alternative for Isak with a excessive upside, I’m not positive you can have signed many higher gamers than him.

“He is 6ft 6in, however he isn’t your typical goal man. He likes to drop and dribble.

“When Bayern needed him, and Bayern had been very eager, they thought he may play with Harry Kane.

5

“I do not know if there are numerous larger compliments than that as a result of he is bought a really excessive soccer intelligence. He would not lose the ball fairly often, and he is always progressing.”

‘Not very best that the very best German gamers are transferring to England’

Woltemade started final season merely nicknamed ‘Huge Nick’ on account of his 6ft 6in body, however ended it known as the ‘Two Metre Messi’.

In 2023/24, he broke by means of at Werder Bremen, however solely scored two objectives in 30 video games, they usually each got here in the identical match.

Stuttgart noticed sufficient to see him make the step as much as a Champions League crew, and had been rewarded with 17 objectives and a club-record sale.

Whereas the chance to switch Isak at Newcastle is a big one, Woltemade’s nationwide crew supervisor expressed his one massive concern.

The striker adopted Liverpool’s Florian Wirtz in surprisingly snubbing a transfer to Bayern for a Premier League switch from the Bundesliga.

5

Julian Nagelsmann mentioned: “I am pleased after they play a number of video games and get a number of minutes, that is an important factor for me.

“It is not very best for the German Bundesliga that the very best German gamers are transferring to England. However that is how it’s.

“It is type of regular at this time period.”

Nagelsmann’s feedback come within the wake of Germany’s shock 2-0 loss in Slovakia – their first ever World Cup qualifying away defeat.