Fresh Wissa injury update for Newcastle as Howe praises “first class” Woltemade

Newcastle United manager Eddie Howe has provided a caller update connected the fittingness of summertime signing Yoane Wissa, who is inactive waiting to marque his debut for the club.

The 29-year-old striker was signed by the Magpies from Brentford for a reported £55m connected deadline day, but helium has been sidelined for the past 7 weeks since sustaining a genu wounded connected planetary work with DR Congo.

Howe initially revealed connected October 3 that Wissa would target a instrumentality to first-team enactment astatine the opening of November, with the Magpies travelling to the London Stadium to look West Ham United successful the Premier League connected Sunday.

However, Howe past called for patience and insisted that Wissa indispensable attack his betterment “one measurement astatine a time” aft confirming that the striker has begun airy grooming connected the grass.

The Newcastle brag has since revealed that Wissa volition miss the travel to West Ham and helium is not adjacent to making a first-team return, though helium is “working hard” to physique up his fittingness successful training.

Howe delivers pessimistic wounded update connected Wissa

Speaking astatine a property league connected Friday, Howe said: “It volition decidedly not beryllium West Ham. He is moving precise hard, and helium is connected the writer and getting the fittingness enactment successful helium needs.

"I’d accidental he’s not adjacent to grooming with the radical owed to fitness. I’m not trying to beryllium evasive, but I don’t cognize erstwhile the infinitesimal volition beryllium erstwhile he’s backmost with the squad."

Howe has nevertheless praised Wissa’s tone during this challenging period, adding: "He has a precise beardown character, and that comes across. He's bully with the players, he's precise positive. He's a leader. You tin spot that already.

"He's trying to animate and assistance the players, which is sometimes precise hard erstwhile you travel to a caller nine and you're injured consecutive away. That's a existent pugnacious intelligence situation for him to instrumentality on, particularly with his transportation fee.

"There'll beryllium a batch of emotions going done him, but each helium tin absorption connected is trying to get acceptable and trying to marque a quality connected the pitch. I deliberation we tin truly assistance him erstwhile we get him fit."

“First class” Woltemade has made agleam commencement to Newcastle career

In Wissa's wounded absence, chap caller enlistee Nick Woltemade has delivered the goods successful beforehand of extremity for Newcastle, scoring six goals successful 11 appearances, including 5 strikes crossed his past 7 games successful each competitions.

Woltemade, a nine grounds £69m signing from Stuttgart, has already scored much Premier League goals (four) than immoderate of the 18 different strikers signed by English top-flight teams during the summertime transportation window.

"It is aboriginal days. Time volition tell. We are pleased with Nick, connected and disconnected the transportation helium has been archetypal class,” said Howe. "The mode helium has conducted himself, handled the move, embraced his teammates, his squad ethics. He has an quality to people goals and beryllium successful the close position.

"Technically precise good. We inactive person to bring retired much successful his crippled but the aboriginal signs are truly positive. He has assortment successful his game. He is not 1 dimensional. His tallness makes him antithetic but past you person his method ability.

"Teams volition enactment retired plans for him, but helium has to proceed to find a mode to people goals."

Meanwhile, Howe has besides provided the latest update connected the fitness of Lewis Hall, Sandro Tonali and Will Osula up of this weekend’s travel to West Ham.

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