Brian Brobbey's Breakthrough in Amsterdam

He’s unstoppable, has an insatiable appetite for goals, and wants a move away from Amsterdam. In the 2018/19 season, Brian Brobbey scored 49 goals for the Ajax youth teams. He was playing against players up to four years older than him. It’s fair to say he turned a few heads, even back then. Now 18, and in his debut season with the senior squad, he averages a goal every 54.5 minutes in the Eredivisie. But there’s two things you need to know out Brobbey. First of all he has six months left on his contract. And second, Mino Raiola is his agent. 

“I think it’s sad when players decide to leave too early here, especially when they spend their entire youth here. We really want to keep him. He can sign a nice contract and have a bright future here. He is young, eager, and has all the qualities you wish to see in an Ajax striker,"-Erik Ten Hag, Ajax Head Coach.

A cute in-to-out manoeuvre on Willem II’s Jordens Peters saw Brobbey break free in the area. Credit has to be given to Nicolás Tagliafico’s inch-perfect cross that found him, but the cool side-footed volley, on his ‘weaker foot’ no less, left little to be desired. It’s the second goal in four appearances for the Ajax and Dutch youth international. 

Despite starting Sébastien Haller in attack, who arrived for a club-record fee of €22.5 million from West Ham on January 8, Ajax found themselves headed for a draw against Willem on Wednesday. In desperate need of a solution, Ten Hag subbed on the teenage forward for Noussair Mazraoui, and the results quickly followed. Brobbey scored within a minute of coming on, and four minutes later, he set up Dušan Tadić's goal to seal the victory.