Nick Woltemade makes public how much Newcastle United actually paid for him – True figure | OneFootball

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.

“How awesome is that?

“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].