Nick Woltemade is enduring the first dip of his Newcastle United career - but no player in the world is progressing as quickly as him.

That is the verdict from European football broadcaster Andy Brassell, who believes the striker is becoming one of the world's absolute best .

Woltemade scored five goals in his first six starts for Newcastle following his club record £69million move from Stuttgart in August.

However, the German has found the net just once in his last six appearances, which included Sunday's 3-1 defeat to Brentford.

Bayern Munich's honorary president, Uli Hoeness, claimed the Magpies overspent on their replacement for Alexander Isak .

Yet the latter, who completed a British transfer record £125m move to Liverpool on deadline day , did

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