Nick Woltemade

[HMSIllustrious]

43 minutes ago, GEFAFWISP said:

Except Elanga of course the geet big minge he is.

He makes it really hard not to be frustrated…

[brummie]

3 hours ago, Hanshithispantz said:

Germany have had some of the best poachers ever, surely you've seen this 

 

Gerd Muller, the absolute finest poacher of all time. Practically invented poaching.

[Collage]

Hopefully he can build on the performance against Chelsea where his movement looked much better. Nick seems a great guy, but too often he's looked slow to react in the box and it's been frustrating watching him halting attacks by dropping and wanting the ball to be played to his feet rather than stretching play and attacking the goal. Still, his qualities are obvious and so far he's scored a goal every second game in his first PL season, can't complain really. To me he looks like an unconventional #10 although I have to say, I can't really get my head around him as a player. He looked much better v Chelsea obviously and let's not forget he's still young, at a new club, in a new country.

 

 

Edited December 22, 2025 by Collage

[AyeDubbleYoo]

He said in his interview with TNT, there’s an adjustment period to the speed and intensity of PL defences. 
 

If he was on penalties he’d be in the conversation for signing of the season. 

[madras]

1 hour ago, Collage said:

Hopefully he can build on the performance against Chelsea where his movement looked much better. Nick seems a great guy, but too often he's looked slow to react in the box and it's been frustrating watching him halting attacks by dropping and wanting the ball to be played to his feet rather than stretching play and attacking the goal. Still, his qualities are obvious and so far he's scored a goal every second game in his first PL season, can't complain really. To me he looks like an unconventional #10 although I have to say, I can't really get my head around him as a player. He looked much better v Chelsea obviously and let's not forget he's still young, at a new club, in a new country.

 

 

 

Could some of it be because not only is he fitter but he's now being told (as Isak was), give it both burners and we can sub ypu when you're done instead of trying to nurse him through 90mins as we have nothing on the bench.

[Kanj]

I like the mix-up of his play v Chelsea. Very clear what he was doing. I think it would be nice if our players delayed the ball or continued to work on communication with him on where the ball should be played as he's working his way into the box after dropping deep. But also there are times when we have the overlapping or underlapping midfielder making the low cross (see Ramsey in 2H hit a perfect low ball to the penalty spot and Nick wasn't there) that he has to gamble on the near post run and hope that the opposite winger or LCM/RCM is making up the space at top of box and back post. That is something he HAS to improve on.  Having said that, if he's dropping deep - then the opposite winger needs to attack the back post/make central run, and a midfielder needs to get beyond Nick to make up #s. 

 

Feed him good crosses and the bloke is nearly unplayable, particularly dangerous driven ones that are bouncing or foot/volley height in addition to heading chances. 

 

 

Edited December 22, 2025 by Kanj

[PauloGeordio]

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[Holloway]

On 22/12/2025 at 19:12, brummie said:

 

Gerd Muller, the absolute finest poacher of all time. Practically invented poaching.

Him and Ian Rush

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Love him so much I’m tempted to buy a green football top, something I vowed never to do. 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

50 minutes ago, PauloGeordio said:

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It’s a great response but also funny that he thought we would hate him because the ball randomly deflected into the net off his bonce

[Jack14Bojangles]

7 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

Love him so much I’m tempted to buy a green football top, something I vowed never to do. 

I never would have thought I'd end up with two Big Nick jerseys in my wardrobe.

The Toon jersey is already in use at every game, and tomorrow I'll have the national team jersey under the Christmas tree.

That'll be for international matches. I'm really looking forward to the World Cup.

[PauloGeordio]

12 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

It’s a great response but also funny that he thought we would hate him because the ball randomly deflected into the net off his bonce

He knew the magnitude of that match. He gets it. Bless him. 

[GEFAFWISP]

23 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

It’s a great response but also funny that he thought we would hate him because the ball randomly deflected into the net off his bonce

Seen how we've treated Elanga so far tbf to him.

[Holloway]

19 hours ago, Jack14Bojangles said:

I never would have thought I'd end up with two Big Nick jerseys in my wardrobe.

The Toon jersey is already in use at every game, and tomorrow I'll have the national team jersey under the Christmas tree.

That'll be for international matches. I'm really looking forward to the World Cup.

You know we're meeting at some stage,with Tommy at the helm

[jack j]

21 hours ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

It’s a great response but also funny that he thought we would hate him because the ball randomly deflected into the net off his bonce

Plenty hatred for Eddie Howe cos we lost one football match so can see why he thought that to be fair

[Holloway]

Eddie has spoken about him getting in the box on the end of things. He can notch 20 plus ,like 

[Ronson333]

 

[gbandit]

You’re damn right, he’s absolutely immense 

[Mike]

On 23/12/2025 at 10:30, GEFAFWISP said:

Seen how we've treated Elanga so far tbf to him.

 

In Elanga's defence he's been fucking dreadful.

[Jack14Bojangles]

From KICKER, Germany's leading sports magazine:

 

Woltemade outshines everyone: How the 28 Germans are faring in Europe's top leagues

 

Several German players are currently playing in Europe's top leagues. In the first half of the season, Nick Woltemade particularly stood out with an impressive goalscoring record.

But lesser-known names also diligently accumulated playing time in England, Italy, Spain, and France.

 

Premier League
In the summer of 2025, two Germans attracted attention with their multi-million-pound transfers to the Premier League. Florian Wirtz and Nick Woltemade, however, experienced completely different first six months in England: Woltemade is Newcastle's top scorer with seven goals in his first 14 Premier League matches. Wirtz, on the other hand, has yet to score a single goal for Liverpool in over a thousand minutes of playing time and only managed his first league contribution shortly before Christmas.

 

Perhaps somewhat under the radar in Germany, but all the more frequently on the pitch in the Premier League were Kevin Schade and Bernd Leno. The Brentford international and the Fulham goalkeeper have by far the most German playing minutes (Schade: 1323 minutes/Leno: 1440 minutes) in the world's best league, while Merlin Röhl and Kai Havertz have been plagued by injuries. Also remarkably good: Malick Thiaw, who followed Woltemade to Newcastle in the summer, recorded an outstanding tackle success rate of 70.6 percent, even if he did make one unfortunate error recently.

 

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Edited December 25, 2025 by Jack14Bojangles

[splinter]

With a pre  season behind him  ,I think we will see a fitter and faster Nick.

[brummie]

He looks good to me. I'd swap him for Watkins right now.

[Geordie Ahmed]

3 hours ago, splinter said:

With a pre  season behind him  ,I think we will see a fitter and faster Nick.

I think we have already seen big improvements from the start of the season in terms of his running 

 

He's never going to be rapid but he seems a bit quicker and he isn't gassed as early as he was at the start

[SteV]

2 hours ago, brummie said:

He looks good to me. I'd swap him for Watkins right now.

With the obvious benefit of hindsight, would you rather have sold Watkins and kept Duran?

[Erikse]

6 minutes ago, SteV said:

With the obvious benefit of hindsight, would you rather have sold Watkins and kept Duran?

 

Hasn't exactly set the world alight after his move from Villa. His attitude is a problem, and they got loads of money for him.