"I can only congratulate the people in Stuttgart for finding - let me use quotation marks here - 'a fool' who paid that much money, because we certainly wouldn't have done that in Munich."
"Market forces dictate transfer fees, not necessarily any one club. We're very pleased to have Nick with us. I think he's started very strongly in what has been a difficult period for him. It's frustrating for him to have had no training time with us of any note. I think he's done really, really well. We're really pleased to have him with us, and the transfer fee, for me, is absolutely irrelevant."
"It's great to see him score with his head. As I said when we signed him, we know he's a big player. That has to be a source of goals for him, with the height that he brings. It's something we felt we could really improve. The two headers were his own work, and he deserves the praise for them because they're two outstanding moments. Once the team services him and gives him better balls in and around the box, there are other ways he can score as well. But that's definitely a promising start."
Bayern Munich board advisor mocked Newcastle's club-record £69m signing of Nick Woltemade, calling the buyer 'a fool' after Bayern's own offers reached only £53m. Newcastle's manager defended the transfer as irrelevant to criticism, attributing the fee to market forces and expressing satisfaction with Woltemade's arrival. Woltemade has scored twice in three starts despite limited training time with the squad and an initial reputation for being better with his feet. Both goals came from headers, which Howe highlighted as a positive use of Woltemade's 6ft 6in height and a sign of further scoring potential once service into the box improves.
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