Why don't Magpies use Woltemade properly?
Much is being made of Nick Woltemade and how he fits into Newcastle's system. For some reason, Woltemade has split opinion - a little in the fanbase but more so in the local media. An argument is made that we aren't able to score goals, and that we lost that element of our game last year with Alexander Isak's departure.
[BBC] [Getty Images] Come on now. Let's play our tall German man up front. The season is basically over.
The stakes are reasonably low. Give it another chance? Much is being made of Nick Woltemade and how he fits into Newcastle's system.
That sort of chatter, I think, is all well and good if he was a sort of bargain bin find or an academy graduate or something, but we paid upwards of £70m for this guy less than a year ago. We did that for him to come to the club as a centre forward. For some reason, Woltemade has split opinion - a little in the fanbase but more so in the local media.
I can't really understand it. An argument is made that we aren't able to score goals, and that we lost that element of our game last year with Alexander Isak's departure. I'd hold that argument in a little more reverence if Woltemade hadn't scored about six goals in his first 10 games for us.