Brian Brobbey is in the Youtube program In the car with Andy van Andy van der Meijde commented on the reports that Ajax would be willing to buy the attacker back from RB Leipzig. According to Brobbey, it’s ‘not bullshit’. The striker chose a transfer to Leipzig over a new contract in Amsterdam and then saw trainer Julian Nagelsmann leave the Bundesliga club, among others. Erik ten Hag also announced earlier that he wanted to buy Brobbey back.
In recent months there has been much speculation about the annual salary that Ajax would pay Brobbey to stay with Ajax. “Valentine Driessen and Mike Verweij, they all know better,” Brobbey responds to Van der Meijde’s question how much Ajax has bid. “If they say one million, it must be right. They always talk things. Nine times out of ten the news is bad. After my goal against OSC Lille, Marc (Overmars, ed.) again made an offer to my agent. Then I said I would stay. After that it didn’t go well.”
Brobbey signed a four-year contract with Leipzig earlier this season. According to Ajax, they had done everything they could to keep him on board, but the difference between supply and demand was too great. An agreement on a new contract was not reached, after which the nineteen-year-old talent decided to move to the Bundesliga on a free transfer. “I also read it everywhere”, Brobbey says about the stories that Ajax would be willing to buy him back. “It’s not bullshit. I just want to play. I was told honestly that I wouldn’t play much next season. That’s honest to me. And if you don’t play, you have to make minutes at Jong Ajax.”
The striker came second to Ajax when the team from Amsterdam earmarked 22.5 million euros for Sébastien Haller last winter. “I already had a feeling that they would get Haller,” says Brobbey. “And that was true. When they got him I thought: shit, it’s true that they wanted to get a striker. Ajax had made promises to me that they would not pick a striker. Then I thought: okay. somehow always prove more.”
Brobbey also opens a book in the broadcast about his double surname. “My mother used to go for papers with a white man and his name was Luckassen,” said the attacker. “On paper. For the residence permit.” Van der Meijde reacts visibly surprised. “Have people never asked about that? Not even in the press and stuff? It’s strange that they don’t ask? They’re all such good journalists, aren’t they?” Brobbey cynically: “Yes, that’s right. Mike Verweij and stuff, Valentijn Driessen. Valentijn thinks he knows everything.”
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