Newcastle’s $100 million Woltemade move forces rethink at boyhood club: ‘I’m killing myself with the transfer’

Bremen – Newcastle United may be happy to get their new striker after Nick Woltermade is affiliated with VFB Stuttgart in a deal worth $ 100 million, and Stuttgart will be happy with their compensation, but his youth team, Werder Bremen, has a different picture. Only a year ago Woltemade Bremen left a free transfer looking for playing time and found it with Stuttgart. It only took a year with the club, scored 12 goals and made a debut for the German national team at just 22, for him to get a massive move to the Premier League.

For Bremen, the only thing they will see from the move is a solidarity costs, and it is something that has caused a change with the German club. Bremen CEO Klaus Filbry spoke about the fall -out and how it led to further from manager Ole Werner despite ending in the upper half of the Bundesliga to concentrate on the youth.

“I kill myself with the Woltemade transfer. I am sure it is actually best to get a player for nothing, so congratulations to Stuttgart in fact a player for nothing and send him a year later, after seven or eight months of important playing time, for 85 or 90 million [Euros]”Filbry said.

“We get a solidarity fee, and I am happy for the player. He is a great guy, but at the same time it is one or two reasons why we felt the need to make a change, because we have to develop young players and we have to give them a chance to play here and now we all go in it.”

Under the new Horst Steffen manager, who managed Woltemade when he was on loan at SV Elversberg, Bremen released the youngest team in the competition, with an average age of 24.4 when they were confronted with Eintracht Frankfurt, and it is the first step to get the club back to the rich history of their academy. If you are not Bayern Munich or RB Leipzig in the Bundesliga, balancing sales and growing players is crucial for success and sustainability.

Frankfurt has become a Champions League club and a challenger for the top four of investing in development, and the sale of Hugo Ekitike to Liverpool is a good show. Stuttgart is another club that has used sales to reach the top of the Bundesliga, and although it hurts for someone like Woltermade to leave, it also offers cash that can help the team improve, together with funds to retain their players.

In a competition where the 50+1 rule requires that clubs majority are owned by members instead of companies – with a few exceptions such as Bayern Munich – it can be difficult to offer investments to run clubs without selling players. Because Werner prefers experienced players, while the Bremen pushed on the table, it hurt them to generate the sale of young players.

Performance can be important in football, but the business aspect is also crucial, and sometimes MidTable can be one of the worst places to be. Not strong enough to get the European qualification, but also not bad enough for relegation to force a complete rebuilding, it can be a slow march to purgatory. Bremen want to avoid that and return to their roots, but only time will learn whether it will also put an end to their drought of European football on the road. Anyway, having a vision and clear goals are better than none at all.