Erik ten Hag wants young Brian Brobbey at Old Trafford

Erik Ten Hag pushing to sign Ajax forward Brian Brobbey.

The 21-year-old forward has been on the radar of Manchester United and Erik Ten Hag earlier wanted to bring the forward to Old Trafford in his debut season.

Brobbey came up the ranks at Ajax and was part of the U-21 team before joining RB Leipzig in the summer of 2021.

After his unsuccessful spell in Germany, he returned to his parent club next summer and has gone from strength to strength in the last two seasons.

The Dutch international had a positive spell under Ten Hag at Ajax during the back end of the 2021/22 season.

Brobbey already has 17 goal contributions from just 25 appearances for Ajax this term.

In a recent interview with Der Telegraaf, Brobbey revealed that Ten Hag asked the youngster to reunite with him at Old Trafford in the summer of 2022.

“Erik ten Hag called me and said that at United, my agent would get millions of euros and I could earn a multiple of my Ajax salary. But our decision was clear: we wanted to go to Ajax,” Brobbey revealed.

“Manchester United wanted to have me, but I insisted on returning to Ajax. To make that possible, my agent Jose Fortes Rodriguez even waived a hefty percentage of the sell-on clause.”

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