Myron Boadu made the switch from AZ to AS Monaco for seventeen million euros last summer, but he did not score for the Monegasques yet. The goal drought is gnawing at the striker, although the youth international keeps confidence in himself and speaks to him NUsport the expectation that it will be okay.
After a disappointing start at AS Monaco, Boadu returned to the Netherlands this week for the international match with the Dutch Juniors. The attacker had just landed in Amsterdam when his sister, in his own words his biggest critic, told him it was time for his first goal for the French club. “She tells me to keep faith and play with the brakes less. Because if I score, the brake is completely off and I’m through the barrier.”
René van der Gijp: ‘Now he has the stamp: ‘I can’t give a shit”
René van der Gijp foresees a tough period for Myron Boadu at AS Monaco.
Boadu came to ten official duels at AS Monaco in the first months, of which he started four in the starting lineup. In the 367 minutes he got from coach Niko Kovac, he was unable to get rid of the zero. “Every striker wants to score, it’s that simple,” he indicated on Tuesday at a press moment of the Dutch Juniors. Boadu admits the goal drought is gnawing at him. “The zero hurts me. Of course I am. I was made to score goals. But I have every confidence in myself, so I think it will be fine.”
The youth international had a hard time especially in the first weeks at his new club. “Of course you think in the beginning: they paid something for me. But after the second game I thought: you’re just Myron, you have to show who you are. That is getting better and better. I feel the goal is coming.” Boadu recently received criticism from, among others, René van der Gijp in Veronica Inside. “That is a boy who goes from AZ to AS Monaco,” said Van der Gijp. “You come in there like a nobody. Those players are not crazy and they wait. Now he has the stamp: I can’t give a shit.”
Boadu says he is not affected by negative reviews. “What other people say, such as analysts, doesn’t matter. The analysts who understand it can only be counted on one hand, I think. The only ones I listen to are my parents, brother and sister, and agents. I’m almost out.” Boadu was good for 38 goals in 88 matches at AZ. In the coming international period, the striker will have the opportunity to score his first goal of the season at Jong Oranje. The team of national coach Erwin van de Looi will compete against Young Switzerland on Friday, after which a home game against Young Wales is scheduled for next Tuesday.