Nick Woltemade

[Lush Vlad]

20 hours ago, Danh1 said:

Honestly, I find it crazy. One person who said that to me used to play for NUFC so I’d expect them to know football but clearly not (imo).

Mick Quinn? 

[ianbeany]

21 hours ago, Danh1 said:

Honestly, I find it crazy. One person who said that to me used to play for NUFC so I’d expect them to know football but clearly not (imo).

 

Alexander Isak?

[Kid Icarus]

21 hours ago, Danh1 said:

Honestly, I find it crazy. One person who said that to me used to play for NUFC so I’d expect them to know football but clearly not (imo).

Does he also not rate Miley? 👀

[gbandit]

6 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

Does he also not rate Miley? 👀

KI connecting dots. I hope this person gets outed to the top lads and lasses of the forum 

[midds]

With the way it's going it's looking like more and more teams are going long and hitting the target man #9, either with long throws or high balls centrally, that's certainly how it feels when I watch games these days. Nothing wrong with that either, it's an alternative to the ultra slow and precise possession game that's bored half of the public to death for the last 8 years or so. 

 

Just wondering if we're going to see teams revert back to the old 4-4-2 or certainly slight variants of it over the next 18 months. Formations and tactics seem to fade out of fashion only to come back again when everyone has forgotten how to defend it. Think we're ripe for a 4-4-2 or maybe a 4-4-1-1 with Wolt and Wissa centrally up top, Gordon/Barnes/Willock left, Elanga/Murphy right and any 2 of Tonali/Bruno/Joelinton/Miley/Ramsey in there. There's lots of flexibility for players to switch in game too. I'd certainly like to see it at some point - never know, it might just click. Just like last December when Howe moved Tonali to the base of the CM and we won about 9 in a row

[Whitley mag]

Early days but looks a much better all round player than Sesko. Cant say I’d swap him for Pedro, or Delap either to be honest.

[joeyt]

Aren't those Bayern quotes from Rummenige from August?

 

I might be wrong like

 

 

Edited September 29, 2025 by joeyt

[Ronaldo]

6 minutes ago, Whitley mag said:

Early days but looks a much better all round player than Sesko. Cant say I’d swap him for Pedro, or Delap either to be honest.

Pedro is a terrific player to be fair so that’s a bold claim. Really like the look of Nick so far obvs.

[Whitley mag]

1 minute ago, Ronaldo said:

Pedro is a terrific player to be fair so that’s a bold claim. Really like the look of Nick so far obvs.

Wolt will score more than Pedro this season nailed on.

[The College Dropout]

2 hours ago, Whitley mag said:

Wolt will score more than Pedro this season nailed on.

Agree with this. 

[Lucky]

He gets us further up the pitch currently but doesn’t seem to have any chemistry with the wide players or midfielders yet.

 

At times it feels like we’ve taken 2/3 years of a backwards step to when we signed Chris Wood, to get us further up the pitch.

 

Early days of course but that’s my first impression.

[Lush Vlad]

 except Chris Wood was terrible as a target man and that isn’t his role. Nor do I think it is Woltemade’s, TBF.

 

The ball barely stuck at all when he was up top and he was basically just up there to press and be a presence between the posts. His touch was atrocious and we just benefitted as a team due to the fact he had actually played there before and be wasn’t ASM. Always felt there has been a load of revisionism about Wood and what he actually did for us. 
 

Drawing parallels between Chris Wood and Nick Woltemade seems ridiculously harsh and not accurate in the slightest from what I’ve seen. 

[The College Dropout]

Chris Wood won his headers but was isolated.

 

IMO our team is setup for a pacey main striker.

[Fak]

Been named Sela player of the month for September. Not so cocky now are you, Rummenigge?

[huss9]

@Heronstill no flag?

[AyeDubbleYoo]

11 hours ago, Lucky said:

He gets us further up the pitch currently but doesn’t seem to have any chemistry with the wide players or midfielders yet.

 

At times it feels like we’ve taken 2/3 years of a backwards step to when we signed Chris Wood, to get us further up the pitch.

 

Early days of course but that’s my first impression.

Lucky you caveated that because it’s absolute balls. 

[PauloGeordio]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[Lucky]

1 hour ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

Lucky you caveated that because it’s absolute balls. 

He’s obviously a better player than Chris Wood, I wasn’t making direct comparisons with the players, more so how he’s being utilised which makes it feel like the team and style of play has taken a backwards step.

 

The team needs to be getting the ball to his feet in the box. I can’t remember him once having time and space on the ball to get a shot off.

[Harry 209]

12 hours ago, Lucky said:

He gets us further up the pitch currently but doesn’t seem to have any chemistry with the wide players or midfielders yet.

 

At times it feels like we’ve taken 2/3 years of a backwards step to when we signed Chris Wood, to get us further up the pitch.

 

Early days of course but that’s my first impression.

That's terrible comparison in my opinion - even without watching him play and seeing what he brings to us that Chris Wood didn't, surely you can see the goal scoring stats are better?

[Harry 209]

He's like Chris Wood was for us, but with goals and better build up play.

[Lucky]

1 minute ago, Harry 209 said:

That's terrible comparison in my opinion - even without watching him play and seeing what he brings to us that Chris Wood didn't, surely you can see the goal scoring stats are better?

See post directly above yours.

[Harry 209]

Just now, Lucky said:

See post directly above yours.

Okay fair enough - I jumped in without reading the whole thread.

[Vaj]

Saw someone on an earlier page say we could do with better players around him for link up play. Would love for us to go for someone like Ndiaye, think he would work really well with Woltemade, can play anywhere across the front, keeps hold of the ball really well and has the work rate of a Howe player. 

[andyc35i]

26 minutes ago, Vaj said:

Saw someone on an earlier page say we could do with better players around him for link up play. Would love for us to go for someone like Ndiaye, think he would work really well with Woltemade, can play anywhere across the front, keeps hold of the ball really well and has the work rate of a Howe player. 

I think there’s some talent there but it would cost £50m at least. The time to get him was before Everton 

[Kanj]

All quotes coming out of Germany is incredibly stupid - regardless of how they want to cut it, from Lahm being an ex big named-pro / legend to the Bayern board members -- this is a 23 year old German kid who is their future / current #9 and potential star of their national team. He never disrespected any of those clubs or people; he's a good and honest pro and kid. Fucking lifting behavior to say that about him and put unnecessary pressure on him. Should be bigging up his move and saying this is good experience for him and hopefully he comes back to Germany and puts in great results leading up to the WC.