Stan Collymore – ‘Nick Woltemade scores a header and he’s called the new Alan Shearer’ | OneFootball

Stan Collymore has been talking about Nick Woltemade and Alexander Isak.

Two summer transfers that have made a ‘few’ headlines.

Alexander Isak making his first appearance for and looking short of full match fitness still, lasting less than an hour and ineffective against Atletico Madrid.

Meanwhile, it is one game and one match winning goal so far for Nick Woltemade.

An excellent debut where the Germany international showed some good touches and link up play, as well as that superb headed winner for Newcastle United against Wolves.

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“I think that the difference between breaking the transfer record as I did 30 years ago (Stan Collymore joined Liverpool in 1995 for a then British transfer record of £8.5m), and now, is that it’s hard to adjust for inflation and work out how similar the deals were.

“Kieran Maguire worked out that an inflation (ED: This is football inflation NOT living expenses inflation) adjusted figure for all the transfers has Alan Shearer at £250 million to Newcastle, and my move to Liverpool was maybe £216m, so my transfer fee was really a massive outlier back then in a way that Isak’s isn’t. At the time, I was breaking the £7 million record for Andy Cole to Manchester United from the season before, and maybe Roy Keane before that from Forest to United.

“So, while there are incremental jumps these days, back then the increases were more like leaps, the equivalent of going from £150m to £300m within the course of a season or two.

“Now though I don’t think it (the size of the transfer fee) matters. Players are asked less often about their fees in press conferences and at games. Managers don’t get asked much about it either, the focus is more on whether the player is settling in. That is because we’re used to such astronomical riches in the Premier League. Those high fees are omnipresent. Look at the top 20 in the Premier League, they’ve all spent big. Birmingham dropped £10m on Jay Stansfield when they were in the third tier. Big fees are just par for the course in England.

“Look at the topflight German, Italian and Spanish clubs who are struggling to match the spending of lower-league English sides.

“All Isak really needs to do is to get fit. That’s the primary thing. And he needs to hit the ground running because if he hits the ground running, Liverpool fans will forget about all the shenanigans with Newcastle. In the same way that Nick Woltemade at Newcastle had an absolute stinker in the international break for Germany. Missed several chances. I was online seeing Geordies despair. But Nick Woltemade scores a header and he’s called the new Alan Shearer.

“It’s going to be about four to six weeks down the line when we’ll know how it’s going for Isak at Liverpool. He’ll be fit and ready to go. Hopefully he’ll have had three or four goals under his belt at that stage, and we will be talking about football.