Last window’s ‘ugly duckling’, giant scores stunning backheel goal, watch 📹 | OneFootball

Who would have thought that among Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitike, the big names of the last transfer window, it would be the German Nick Woltemade standing out in the Premier League?

Signed for around 75 million euros, the 1.98-meter-tall striker arrived amid skepticism, but already has four goals in five matches for the Magpies in the English Championship.

His latest goal, in fact, was a stunner—scored with a backheel—in the 2-1 defeat to Brighton in the Premier League. The play went viral on social media and even drew comparisons to Zlatan Ibrahimovic. 👇

'Ugly duckling?'

Woltemade’s performance in the Premier League has already surpassed the two most talked-about names from the last window, who made Liverpool open their wallets.

While Ekitiké, signed for 90 million euros from Frankfurt, has three goals in six games, and Isak, who came from Newcastle for 150 million, has three games and no goals in the English league.

The former Stuttgart player even found himself at the center of controversy after Karl-Heinz Rummenigge criticized the amount paid for his transfer.

In an interview with Blickpunkt Sport, the former Bayern executive mocked the deal Newcastle made with Stuttgart.

“Congratulations to Stuttgart for finding an ‘idiot’ willing to pay that much,” he concluded.

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