Article by Aurelian Botezatu – Published Friday, December 26, 2025, 1:05 p.m. / Updated Friday, December 26, 2025, 1:06 p.m.
Nick Woltemade, the striker who Newcastle paid €85m in the summer, has had a truly stellar rise in 2025.
Former Bayern chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has remained “strange” with his summer comments about Nick Woltemade's move to Newcastle United.
Nick Woltemade contradicts Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
Interested in the VfB Stuttgart striker, Bayern had only offered 65 million euros and bonuses, but the English won the duel from a distance with 85 million, money down! Furious, the former German international then commented: “Congratulations to Stuttgart for finding an idiot to pay so much money for Woltemade.”
So far, at least, time has proven that the 23-year-old German international was worth all the money VfB demanded and invested in him by the “cozofene”. The figures from transfermarkt.de are telling in this respect. In December 2024, after half a year at Swabia, the striker was quoted at 7.5 million euros, given that he had been taken for free from Werder Bremen in the summer of that year.
Nick Woltemade's market share increased by 62.5 million euros in one year
In December 2025, transfermarkt.de, the most important profile site in the world, increased its share by 62.5 million to 70 million euros. Which translates to an amazing 833%.
The rise of the Woltemade massif, which is almost two meters high (1.98 m), has been spectacular in recent months. He finished last season at Stuttgart with 17 goals in 33 appearances in all competitions, and then won the Golden Boot at the European Under-21 Championship, where he scored 6 times.
Nick Woltemade also passed his first Premier League tests with flying colours
In fact, he was already on his way to stardom when Newcastle won the battle with Bayern for his services. And the German continued his rise in the Premier League. Yet, he scored nine goals, seven in the league, one in the Champions League and one in the League Cup, and provided two assists in 23 games in all competitions.
Eddie Howe, the manager of the “Cotofenes”, is delighted: “Nick is very strong, he has great technical skills. He has a great shot, runs very well and has that vision that allows him to combine very well with his teammates.”
