{"id":255294,"date":"2025-09-26T04:30:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/255294\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T04:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:30:22","slug":"eddie-howe-frustrated-with-overused-nick-woltemade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/255294\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Howe Frustrated with Overused Nick Woltemade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Eddie Howe has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-15125161\/Eddie-Howe-Newcastle-admission-Nick-Woltemade-Yoane-Wissa.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">admitted<\/a> his frustration at being forced to overuse Nick Woltemade during Newcastle United\u2019s opening matches, with the \u00a369million record signing pressed into action sooner than planned following the late departure of Alexander Isak and the injury to Yoane Wissa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Woltemade, 23, scored on his debut against Wolves but has since been asked to shoulder the bulk of Newcastle\u2019s attacking workload, something Howe\u2019s not too happy about..<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Howe said the German forward was not ready for such heavy demands in the Premier League and warned that his adaptation must be managed carefully.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI think Nick has made a really strong start,\u201d Howe said. \u201cHe will improve the fitter he gets. That\u2019s a huge thing. He\u2019s come to us with not being used to the demands of Premier League football. This league is relentless physically and our schedule is relentless. A lot of what we\u2019re doing with him in the short term is to try and keep him fit by not putting him in dangerous positions by playing too many successive 90 minutes too early.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Howe admitted that losing Wissa immediately after his \u00a355m move from Brentford left Newcastle with few alternatives. The DR Congo international sustained a knee injury on international duty before playing a single minute for his new club, leaving Woltemade as Howe\u2019s only specialist striker, and won\u2019t return until late October or early November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIf Yoane was available now, he\u2019d be allowing us to work with Nick\u2019s fitness in between games and sharing some of the load,\u201d Howe said. \u201cIt was huge. You go into the new season with your squad settled and you have a plan and then we didn\u2019t even see Yoane. He\u2019s come back injured and that was a difficult one. We knew Yoane was Premier League ready. Hopefully he\u2019ll be back after the international break.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Newcastle have scored only three league goals so far this season, underlining the pressure on Woltemade to adapt quickly and the huge expectations placed on him to carry the Magpies up the table and forward into the UCL and the domestic cups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Howe has admitted his frustration at being forced to overuse Nick Woltemade during Newcastle United\u2019s opening matches,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":255295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[134594,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-255294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-newcastle-united-team-news","9":"tag-soccer","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115268722618390085","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}