How Newcastle United are signing Nick Woltemade ahead of Real Madrid, Chelsea and Bayern Munich | OneFootball

Some intriguing insight into how Newcastle United managed to succeed with Nick Woltemade, ahead of interest from Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid and Chelsea.

The insight provided in an excellent piece from Goal on United’s latest (imminent) signing.

Just the formal announcement waited for after Nick Woltemade passed his medical and with personal terms agreed.

Newcastle United having agreed a transfer fee of £65m plus £4.3m potential future add-ons.

After the 2024/25 season ended, Goal report that there was interest from Real Madrid, Chelsea and Atletico Madrid in signing Nick Woltemade.

However, all three clubs ended their interest, when it emerged that the 6ft 6 striker had told Bayern Munich that he intended to join them. The usual route for emerging young German talent at other Bundesliga clubs, Bayern Munich in the fortunate position usually of having their pick of the best young German players.

Bayern Munich clearly seeing Nick Woltemade as the long-term successor to Harry Kane, who has now turned 32.

However, Stuttgart took exception to Bayern Munich trying to land their star striker on the cheap.

Goal reporting that Stuttgart had set a valuation of €65m (£56m) on Nick Woltemade but then Bayern made a number of lowball offers. Only bidding a derisory £35m which was rejected out of hand, then the same when they raised that to £48m.

Angered by the way the Bundesliga champions were behaving, Goal state that Stuttgart told Bayern Munich in July to stop contacting their striker who had unsurprisingly become unsettled by Bayern messing him and his club around.

An eventual third offer of £52m was eventually received i mid-August as Bayern Munich started to panic. However, that once again was less than Stuttgart’s initial £56m valuation, which then anyway had become now £65m.

Stuttgart’s CEO then stating publicly that ‘the file was closed’ on Nick Woltemade this summer, sick of Bayern Munich believing they had a free run on the player, rivals having backed off and thinking the striker only wanted to sign for them.