Kenneth Perez does not understand why such a fuss is being made about Brian Brobbey’s return to Ajax. The striker was brought back to Amsterdam on New Year’s Eve, after he was not assured of a base place at RB Leipzig either. The transfer was accompanied by a storm of media attention, which did not go down well with Perez, he told Monday evening. football talk.
“It is being done as if this has never been seen before in the Eredivisie,” said Perez. “It’s just an Ajax substitute who has become a substitute at RB Leipzig and is now going to be a substitute at Ajax. And there is still a fuss about it, god man. It looks like an ESPN campaign film,” the analyst refers to himself. . Perez played the lead role in a new commercial on Monday, after he extended his contract with the pay channel. In any case, Brobbey seems assured of a basic spot in the first weeks of January and February, when Sébastien Haller is to the Africa Cup. “The Africa Cup is only a month,” concludes Perez.
Sjoerd Mossou, who also joined the football talk show, does not fully understand Brobbey’s transfer. “It is a strange transfer,” said the journalist of Algemeen Dagblad. “Somehow I understand the fuss. A player who with his full mind refuses a contract extension not once, but ten times… It is a bit crazy on both sides. If you look at it pragmatically, it makes a lot of sense”, Mossou refers to the Africa Cup. Haller will be absent from January 9 to February 6, provided Ivory Coast makes it to the final of the African country tournament.
Borbbey himself is happy to be back at Ajax, he said when the deal was finalized. “I am happy to be back, to see my friends again and I will give everything to contribute to the success – just like early season -,” said Brobbey. RB Leipzig picked him up transfer-free from Ajax last summer, but the striker came to only 124 playing minutes in Germany in the past six months, spread over 9 matches. “I don’t regret that. The story was good, but after the trainer (Julian Nagelsmann, ed.) and TD (Markus Krösche) left and André Silva was brought in as the new striker, everything was different in one fell swoop.”