Has there ever been a bigger Newcastle United riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma than Nick Woltemade?
In all my time watching the Magpies, I’m not sure I’ve seen a player so doomed to fail from the minute he walked through the door. Weirdly, I’m not sure the German international really foots much of the blame for it.
In a world where, with the ink barely dry on his deal at Juventus, every man and his dog is keen to pounce on the narrative that Woltemade was not fit for purpose at NUFC, or the Premier League, I want to give a more contextual, nuanced view of what is hard to argue against a failed 12-month stint on Tyneside.