Premier League strugglers Newcastle United look set to miss out on Wout Weghorst due to an unfortunate injury blow at Bundesliga giants VFL Wolfsburg, as reported by Sport Buzzer.
It never rains but it pours at the Volkswagen Arena.
Wolfsburg season has not just stalled, the wheels have come off. Some would even write it off for good. Totalled.
Die Wolfen were top of the table one month into the Bundesliga season, winning every one of their first four games under Mark van Bommel.
The former Dutch international was sacked a few weeks later, however, paying the price for a dramatic decline in performances and behind-the-scenes issues.
His successor, Florian Kohfeldt, also saw a ‘new manager bounce’ make way for a collapse of epic proportions. Seven defeats in a row in all competitions mean Wolfsburg will spend Christmas in the bottom half of the table.
It could be worse though. You could be Newcastle United.
Only two teams in Premier League history have survived after picking up so few points at this stage of a season. And any hopes Eddie Howe might have had of dipping into the club’s endless reservoir of resources for a new centre-forward appear to have gone up in smoke.
Are Newcastle missing out on Wout Weghorst?
BILD and Kicker reported last week that Newcastle were keen on 6ft 6ins man-mountain Wout Weghorst. What’s more, the Netherlands international is intrigued by the prospect of a Premier League move.
Weghorst’s status as Wolfsburg’s goalscoring talisman has come under threat from Lukas Nmecha this season. He’s even been outscored, eight to seven, by the former Man City youngster.
But an ill-timed injury which has ruled Nmecha out until the spring means Weghorst looks destined to stick around until the summer now. Wolfsburg are in no mood to sell one of their strikers after losing the other to injury.
“(There is) nothing to worry about,” sporting director Jorg Schmadtke said when asked about Weghorst’s future.
“(Nmecha’s injury) is extremely annoying for both parties. But we will have to deal with that too. We have to accept the situation and make the best of it.”
Newcastle have all the money in the world but no one wants to sell.
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