Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 07:26• Yanick Vos

Myron Boadu was determined to make a transfer last summer because he wanted to challenge himself. He did not like another season in the Eredivisie and so he exchanged AZ for AS Monaco, which paid seventeen million euros for him. The twenty-year-old striker often plays in the first months in the Ligue 1 and Europa League, although he is still waiting for his first goal.

Boadu was assured of a base place at AZ and scored on the assembly line. Like his AZ teammate and friend Calvin Stengs, the striker opted for a move to the south of France. Where the winger was picked up by OGC Nice, Boadu is the new striker of Monaco. “I thought: am I going to stay another year to score 20 goals or am I going to challenge myself? Do I step out of my comfort zone and go to Monaco to try to become a big player there? I think I need this step and chose the latter,” Boadu said in an interview with The Telegraph.

At rush hour, the Côte d’Azur lacks nothing. Through his agent Mino Raiola he rents a beautiful apartment with a view over the Mediterranean Sea and a harbor with luxury yachts. “If I want to buy the apartment, I have to score fifty goals a year. In the Champions League,” said Boadu, who, according to the newspaper, is not or hardly impressed by all the pomp and circumstance around him. Looking at the Yacht Club from his balcony, he says: “Mino has arranged for me to join it too. Whatever. I mean: I don’t even have a yacht,” said the striker, who plays with Monaco against Girondins de Bordeaux at 3 p.m. on Sunday.

Boadu has a lot to do with his agent in Monaco, who also lives in the principality. Also in practical matters. For example, the talent currently has an electric shopping car from Raiola on loan. “My Porsche is at the garage and Mino had a few more cars. I said: give me one that will drive me from place A to place B,” says Boadu, whose contract with Monaco runs until the summer of 2026. “You have to be careful here with speeding, huh. Before I knew it, I already had a ticket. Really: if you speed somewhere, the police will be next to you two minutes later. I now stick to the speed, you can hardly go faster than fifty kilometers per hour.”