Newcastle bonus payments to Stuttgart for Nick Woltemade – Now made public what will trigger them | OneFootball

There had been a lot of debate about how much exactly Newcastle United had paid Stuttgart for Nick Woltemade.

As usual these days, no exact figure given by either club.

However, Newcastle United did say that the transfer fee for Nick Woltemade was a new club record.

With Alexander Isak having previously held the record in 2022, a widely reported £59m plus potential £4m in future add-ons, when he signed from Real Sociedad. We at least knew it was something in excess of that.

Whilst the more credible journalists in the UK were universally reporting that Newcastle United had paid Stuttgart a guaranteed £65m plus £4.3m in potential future add-ons. Much of the media in Germany, especially those happy to push the Bayern Munich agenda, were desperate to claim it was a far higher fee paid by United for Nick Woltemade.

Bayern Munich far from happy that Newcastle had swopped in after they had tried and failed to lowball Stuttgart with three offers, the highest of which was a reported £52m.

After Nick Woltemade made his move to Tyneside, claims in Germany of Newcastle United paying a minimum of £78m (€90m).

Last week, Nick Woltemade himself made clear (see below) that Newcastle United had paid a guaranteed £65m, not the £78m+ so many in Germany were trying to claim.

Now we have had some figures made public on exactly what will trigger the bonus future add-on cash, what will need to happen to trigger Newcastle United paying up to the best part of a further £5m to Stuttgart.

Julian Agardi works for German media outlet Bild and he has revealed what his sources have told him, regarding what the breakdown is, of these potential future bonus payments from Newcastle to Stuttgart:

If Nick Woltemade wins the Premier League with Newcastle United – €2m (roughly £1.7m)

If Nick Woltemade reaches the Champions League semi-finals with Newcastle United – €1m (roughly £0.85m)

If Nick Woltemade wins the Champions League with Newcastle United – €2m (roughly £1.7m)

If Nick Woltemade becomes the top Premier League scorer in England with Newcastle United – €0.5m (roughly £0.43m)

I think fair to say that if any of these bonuses are triggered, nobody associated with Newcastle United will be complaining about paying the extra cash!

Looking back, interesting to see that when Nick Woltemade signed for Newcastle United, Bild also reported then on the player’s contract.

They stated that their information was that the Germany international striker had signed a six year contract that takes him up to 30 June 2031.

Whilst as for wages, the German media outlet saying that Nick Woltemade was on a €1.5m (approx £1.3m) a year deal with Stuttgart. With his new Newcastle United contract paying up to around €8m (approx £7m). So an increase in weekly terms from £25k a week to £140k a week with Newcastle United.

The Mag report – 12 September 2025:

When Nick Woltemade became Newcastle United’s record signing in the closing stages of the summer transfer window, it also prompted much debate and headline in Germany.

It had been taken for granted that the young German international striker was going to sign for Bayern Munich.

After a breakthrough 2024/25 season at Stuttgart where Nick Woltemade started 22 games in all competitions and scored 17 goals, the reigning Bundesliga champions then made clear they were determined to sign the striker as another forward option and the longer-term replacement for Harry Kane.

Whilst when Woltemade himself made clear that from the group of top clubs interested in signing him, he wanted to join Bayern Munich, these other clubs backed off.

Bayern Munich abused that position by trying to get Nick Woltemade for far less than Stuttgart valued the player at, trying to bully the rival Bundesliga club into selling him on the cheap. A series of lowball offers ended with Stuttgart turning down a third offer from Bayern Munich, widely reported as £52m. Indeed, so sickened were Stuttgart of Bayern’s antics, they refused to discuss the transfer further and stated there was no way they would be selling Nick Woltemade to them (Bayern Munich) in the summer 2025 window.

Newcastle United obviously then coming in and taking advantage of Bayern’s antics, signing Nick Woltemade and bringing him to the Premier League instead.

Ever since then, there has been a bizarre and desperate campaign across the German media to ridicule the fact that Newcastle United have signed Nick Woltemade. This largely fed by those connected to Bayern Munich, fighting a desperate rearguard action to justify how they failed to sign the striker themselves.

Whilst the credible media in the UK have repeatedly quoted the transfer fee as £65million (approx €75million) plus a potential £4.3million in future add-ons, over in Germany a figure of €90million (approx £78million) has been repeatedly pushed as the transfer fee. The less credible media in the UK also happy to push that far higher claimed transfer fee.

Nick Woltemade has now give his first interview to media in Germany since his transfer and has gone public with what the truth is on his transfer fee.

The new Newcastle United striker accepts that his transfer fee was ‘crazy’, which is of course something you could say about so many transfer fees paid this summer, as the Premier League clubs smashed all previous records with their transfer spend.

However, Nick Woltemade has now stated the true transfer fee, saying that the claimed £78million (€90million) in the German media is untrue and that Newcastle United did indeed pay £65million (€75million) as the guaranteed transfer fee. A figure that was higher than Bayern Munich’s lowball figures but nowhere near as high as claimed in Germany.

Nick Woltemade speaking to the German Press Agency about signing for Newcastle United and what his true transfer fee was, as reported by Spiegel – 12 September 2025:

“The Premier League is the best league in the world and we [Newcastle United] are also playing in the Champions League.

“I’m part of it.

“Even if it ended up being 75 million [Euros] instead of 90 million [Euros], it is obviously crazy [as are so many other transfer fees that are paid].