It is very hard to pinpoint a player’s true value.<\/p>\n
The bottom line, like anything, is what someone is willing to pay.<\/p>\n
So Woltemade is worth what Newcastle paid for him: \u00a369m.<\/p>\n
One of the only reference points publicly available in football to assess valuations is the comprehensive database of website Transfermarkt, which provides transfer data for BBC Sport.<\/p>\n
Now there is a catch in this case. Woltemade’s last valuation \u20ac30m (\u00a326.1m) was at the start of June.<\/p>\n
What happened next? He had a breakout few months.<\/p>\n
His last Transfermarkt valuation came a day after winning his first senior cap with Germany.<\/p>\n
He then spearheaded Germany’s front line at the Under-21 Euros, winning the Golden Boot and being named in the team of the tournament.<\/p>\n
Undoubtedly that would add to his value, but would those exploits add \u00a343m?<\/p>\n
Among other players to feature in England’s win over Germany at the Euros, Nottingham Forest signed Omari Hutchinson and James McAtee for a combined \u00a367.5m, while Bayer Leverkusen signed Jarell Quansah for \u00a335m from Liverpool.<\/p>\n
Woltemade was the seventh most expensive arrival to the Premier League in the summer.<\/p>\n
But of the 26 most expensive new signings by top-flight clubs, Woltemade’s valuation was the lowest on Transfermarkt.<\/p>\n
The same website values striker Nicolas Jackson, signed by Bayern on loan from Chelsea, at \u20ac50m (\u00a343.5m). Bayern signed Jackson for a \u00a314.3m loan fee with a conditional obligation to buy for \u00a356.2m.<\/p>\n
Wissa, 29, who was signed by Newcastle from Brentford in August, joined Eddie Howe’s side for \u00a355m and has a \u20ac32m (\u00a327.8m) valuation on the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is very hard to pinpoint a player’s true value. The bottom line, like anything, is what someone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-196856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}