Nick Woltemade

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19 hours ago, HMSIllustrious said:

https://www.stern.de/sport/nick-woltemade---herr-hoeness-hat-mir-eine-whatsapp-zukommen-lassen--36915160.html
 

extensive Interview in a big German news magazine (1€ paywall).

Nick says he delibaretly chose NU over Bayern to compete in the best league in the world and that he felt right at home from the beginning. 
Furthermore, he is not content with his game, says that in many games he is involved too little but thats because the the team had so few training sessions together and the others are used to playing with a completely different type of rodent uh striker.

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[et tu brute]

Service to him has been absolutely shocking the last few games where not even involving him when he's dropping deep for the ball. He was in the box more than enough and fuck all was coming in

[Lotus]

Mmmmmm……

Maybe he’ll handle Leverkuesen better as it’s what he’s used to.

Not really in the game today, though.

[et tu brute]

3 minutes ago, Lotus said:

Mmmmmm……

Maybe he’ll handle Leverkuesen better as it’s what he’s used to.

Not really in the game today, though.

No surprise when he's getting fuck all played into him

[Lotus]

He didn’t move much when facing play in their box. No clever spins, not even a quick step to the side to get a bit of separation and give the ball player the option.

[et tu brute]

4 minutes ago, Lotus said:

He didn’t move much when facing play in their box. No clever spins, not even a quick step to the side to get a bit of separation and give the ball player the option.

Bollocks he was making runs all over and just wasn't getting the ball

[Kid Icarus]

Looks like Wissa's back at the right time in terms of Nick's tiredness. He's grafted his arse off and put in a fantastic shift  Hopefully he can rest up a bit and come back on fire. 

[Mr Misery]

Nick had 16 touches in seventy odd minutes - why aren't they getting the ball to him more?

[Magpie Mover]

3 minutes ago, Mr Misery said:

Nick had 16 touches in seventy odd minutes - why aren't they getting the ball to him more?

Because our coaches have no idea how to get him involved in most of our play and he's surrounded by players with virtually no technical ability. 

[Casey]

Just now, Mr Misery said:

Nick had 16 touches in seventy odd minutes - why aren't they getting the ball to him more?

We don't build up or make final passes via the centre of the pitch. We're almost exclusively reliant on width and playing balls in from wide or cutting-in, both of which basically don't work with where Wolte operates.

 

You could see the difference with Wissa. Subbed in at 74' minutes and had 10 touches vs the 16 from Wolte. Wissa is basically a classic box operator #9 so will fit more naturally.

 

Not convinced our coaching staff know what to do with Nick. I can't imagine it helps to have had no real preseason and inability to train due to fixture congestion. 

[Fak]

5 minutes ago, Magpie Mover said:

Because our coaches have no idea how to get him involved in most of our play and he's surrounded by players with virtually no technical ability. 

 

[Mr Misery]

Well they need to sort it out. Hopefully, once through fixture congestion, a midfield of Bruno, Tonali and Miley have enough nous to play patterns that Nick can get involved with.

[Displayname]

It will be great to have Wissa available going forward. 

Hasn't been working out with Woltemade lately, whatever the reason is.

Being able to be rotated a bit certainly can't hurt.

[Weezertron]

He’ll be keen to move in the future if we don’t start giving him service. 

[Big Geordie]

Needs a bit of a rest, IMO. Wissa being fit should help. 

[TRon]

At least with Wissa back we don't need to be so reliant on him, he's got us through a third of the season so done a great job for us. 

[joeyt]

Would have been madness to play through the middle to him when he was marked by 3 centre backs and they had 10 men.

 

First rule of playing against 10 men is to stretch the play as wide as possible

[The Prophet]

4 minutes ago, Weezertron said:

He’ll be keen to move in the future if we don’t start giving him service. 

 

He's been here five minutes

[Weezertron]

4 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

He's been here five minutes

🤣

[Mountain]

We need to build the team around him, he needs to be a number 10 feeding in the ball to Wissa.

 

We need him on the ball as much as possible.

 

Also Livramento (as much as i love him) is allergic to crossing the ball, he could have crossed it 10 times today, Nick would probably have scored one of them.

 

It feels like we have the ingredients but don't know the recipe yet.

 

If we find it, we'll be very good.

[Gawalls]

15 hours ago, Casey said:

We don't build up or make final passes via the centre of the pitch. We're almost exclusively reliant on width and playing balls in from wide or cutting-in, both of which basically don't work with where Wolte operates.

 

You could see the difference with Wissa. Subbed in at 74' minutes and had 10 touches vs the 16 from Wolte. Wissa is basically a classic box operator #9 so will fit more naturally.

 

Not convinced our coaching staff know what to do with Nick. I can't imagine it helps to have had no real preseason and inability to train due to fixture congestion. 

You think there's room for both on the pitch with nick playing behind Wissa?

[Groundhog63]

15 hours ago, Magpie Mover said:

Because our coaches have no idea how to get him involved 

 

15 hours ago, Casey said:

Not convinced our coaching staff know what to do with Nick. 

 

15 hours ago, Mr Misery said:

Well they need to sort it out. .

 

 

[jackyboy]

I really rate the guy. I know he's tall but when he goes to head the ball his feet hardly seem to leave the ground

[sixx]

Maybe it’s just nostalgic 4-4-2 revisionism but I’m really desperate to see him play behind or alongside Wissa. The more I see of him the less I see of Berbatov and maybe more of Bergkamp?

[Jewel]

He's obviously not the finished article yet. He is still improving and trying to work out how to play in this league, but he has all the tools to be a success for us. I mean, he's already shown flashes of brilliance.

 

I'm confident Eddie can find a way to utilise him to the fullest.