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This article was first published on March 27 at 4:10 p.m. and was now added with further information.
Nick Woltemade is one of the great winners of the Market value updates In the Bundesliga and shines at VfB Stuttgart and in the U21 national team. His former coach Ole Werner also sees this development: “I believed that. I was very happy to work with him. As far as the sporting assessment is concerned, we all saw him right away.” In the current squad of Werder Bremen, the 23 -year -old attacker would be the most valuable professional.
A year ago, Woltemade decided not to extend his expiring contract on the Weser and switch to Stuttgart. In the same summer, VfB signed the two with Deniz Undav and Ermedin Demirovic most expensive new additions in club history. In addition, El Bilal Touré was loaned by Atalanta Bergamo, so Woltemade went into the season as striker number four and was not even reported for the Champions League. In the meantime, the Bremen native has developed a regular place and has become an integral part of Sebastian Hoeneß’s team.
In Bremen, Woltemade, who switched to the youth of the green and whites at the age of eight, would have liked to be kept. “He got a very, very good offer here. He would have been at the top. But he decided on a different way. I only wish him the best – except twice a year – and I’m happy for him,” said Werner at the press conference before the away game at Holstein Kiel. The top earners on the Weser include Marvin Ducksch, Mitchell Weiser and Leonardo Bittencourt, whose rumored annual salary is to be gross at 2 million euros.
When Woltemade returned to his youth club last summer, its market value was 4 million euros. In December, he climbed to 7.5 million euros and his good performance since the turn of the year led to it being upgraded to EUR 17 million. This would make it the most valuable professional in the current squad of the Bremen – this status has Romano Schmid, who is rated 15 million euros. “In the rating period, Woltemade caught a very strong phase, took a big step forward again and is now displacing Demirovic and Undav to the bench. After the U21 European Championship, he will be a candidate for Julian Nagelsmann,” explains market value expert Frédéric Hillmann.
Update 5:28 p.m.: After FC Bayern, apparently other clubs have expressed their interest in Woltemade. As the “Picture“Reports, the Premier League clubs FC Everton and Brighton & Hove Albion also have the attacker on the piece and watched him on site in Stuttgart several times. The Seagulls with coach Fabian Hürzeler are said to have already contacted the Woltemade camp. However, the 23-year-old would only have its price from a replacement of 40 million. Euro willing to talk – it would be a record sum for the Stuttgart.
At Werner, Woltemade completed 35 games in which he scored two goals. The U21 international posted a large part of his twelve starting work in the final sprint of last season. For VfB he was on the pitch 24 times, 15 times from the start and he scored nine goals in the league and three in the DFB Cup. The most accurate Bremener this season is midfielder Jens Stage, who was successful seven times.