Newcastle United have signed Germany striker Nick Woltemade from VfB Stuttgart in a club-record deal that sources have advised ESPN is price £64.9 million ($87.5m).
The 23-year-old was on the membership’s coaching floor on Friday to finalise a transfer to the Premier League membership and was subsequently confirmed as a Newcastle participant on Saturday.
“I am actually blissful to be at this superb membership,” Woltemade mentioned in an announcement. “From the primary contact, I felt just like the membership actually wished me and had massive plans for me.
“It is a massive step in my life to depart Germany however everyone has welcomed me so properly and it already seems like household. I’ve a extremely good feeling from chatting with the top coach that that is the suitable place for me to search out my greatest stage.
“I do know the stadium from watching video games on tv — it appears to be like superb and I do know the environment is loopy. I am actually excited to play and begin scoring objectives right here.”
He had initially been a goal for Bayern Munich however Newcastle jumped forward of the Bundesliga champions after having a bid accepted by Stuttgart.
Woltemade started his profession with Werder Bremen, spending 10 years of their youth arrange, earlier than becoming a member of the senior group in 2020.
There, he scored two objectives in 51 appearances in all competitions.
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The 6-foot-6 striker made the change from Werder Bremen to Stuttgart in the beginning of the 2024-25 season and was an important cog within the facet that received the DFB Pokal, scoring 17 objectives in 33 video games.
He has made two appearances for Germany and starred through the latest U21 Euros, scoring a hat-trick towards Slovenia within the group levels.
A serious stumbling block for Liverpool signing Alexander Isak from Newcastle has been their lack of success in signing a substitute, with Woltemade’s switch doubtlessly making a switch domino impact.
Sources have advised ESPN although that Liverpool have but to return with a bid larger than their preliminary £110m supply.
Newcastle have struggled to signal a recognised centre-forward all through the summer season and with Isak coaching alone, Eddie Howe resorted to taking part in Anthony Gordon as a makeshift No. 9 for his or her opening two Premier League matches towards Aston Villa and Liverpool.
They made efforts to signal Liam Delap, João Pedro, Benjamin Sesko and Hugo Ekitike, however all 4 selected to hitch Premier League rivals.
“We’re delighted to get Nick’s signing over the road so shortly,” Howe mentioned. “He suits the profile for precisely what now we have been trying so as to add to our attacking choices.
“He is robust in lots of areas — he has nice technical capability and has confirmed himself to be an actual risk in one in every of Europe’s high leagues — however he is additionally nonetheless at an age the place he has loads of room to develop and develop right here.”
Woltemade turns into Newcastle’s fifth acquisition of the summer season, after Anthony Elanga, Jacob Ramsey, Malick Thiaw and Aaron Ramsdale made the transfer to St. James’ Park.
Info from ESPN’s Mark Ogden contributed to this report.
