Brian Brobbey will earn three million euros a year at RB Leipzig, reports The Telegraph. The newspaper briefly entered into a conversation with Marc Overmars, who is reports on the transfer-free departure of the nineteen-year-old striker at Ajax. The director of football affairs even visited Monaco in vain to talk again with his agent Mino Raiola about a contract extension.
“I am devastated,” says Overmars. “Also because we had a really good sporting plan with him, as we did earlier with Ryan Gravenberch.” After long negotiations with Raiola, Ajax did succeed in getting Gravenberch to sign up in the summer. The eighteen-year-old midfielder received a substantial salary increase in Amsterdam and signed a contract until mid-2023.
Arnold Bruggink, who played four seasons in the Bundesliga during his football career, also reacts to Brobbey’s choice to go to Leipzig. “I have heard that Brobbey will earn a lot in Germany,” said the former attacker opposite The Telegraph. “Then as a Dutch club you have to say at some point: this is what we offer and that’s it, we will not go further.”
Bruggink hopes that the decision is based on sporting grounds. “If Brobbey had made the decision for himself that he wanted to look further, then RB Leipzig really is a very good choice. It is a club with a very clear philosophy. Leipzig has a plan with young footballers and is making them better. But I also think it would be better for him at the moment if he would develop further at Ajax. “
According to Bruggink, the fact that he comes across free of transfer is not an advantage for the center forward. “Brian ends up in a much more mature league than the Eredivisie. If you are attracted to a high transfer fee, then you come in differently. Now it is being checked whether Brobbey is good enough. Not? Then he just wait. The guys from Leipzig will now know him through his goals against Lille and Young Boys, but also see him as a player who sat on the bench at Ajax. “