Newcastle United loan star prepares for cup final after guaranteeing Champions League qualification | OneFootball

What a season this has been for Yankuba Minteh.

This season just gets better and better for the Newcastle United loan star.

His raw talent and pace increasingly leading to goals and assists as the season has went on, which has combined with now becoming a regular in the starting eleven for Feyenoord.

As well as scoring for the Dutch side in the Champions League against Celtic, this season Yankuba Mineth has thirteen direct goal involvements for Feyenoord in the league, scoring nine and four assists.

However, ending the season very strongly, the 19 year old NUFC loan star now has eight direct goal involvements (six goals and two assists) in just his last nine matches for Feyenoord. The three most recent direct goal involvements, two goals and an assist, coming in his 75 minutes on the pitch during the 6-0 thrashing of huge rivals Ajax 10 days ago.

Sunday saw the latest start for Yankuba Minteh, no goals or assists on that occasion, BUT the Newcastle United teenager helped Feyenoord win 1-0 away at Fortuna Sittard, which now leaves the Dutch league table looking like this:

Mathematically PSV could be caught but in reality they have ran away with the league and only need to win one of their last four to be crowned deserved champions.

However, Feyenoord have still performed at a high level and Sunday’s victory has guaranteed them second and Champions League football. With four games to play they are 12 points clear of Twente and with a 28 goals advantage on goal difference over the third placed team.

All thoughts for Yankuba Minteh and his loan club teammates now turn to Sunday, the Newcastle United loan star set to hopefully pick up the first major honour of his career.

It is the Dutch Cup final and Feyenoord are up against NEC, who are 25 points behind them in the league.

Happily, Minteh and his teammates have another small advantage, as the cup final will be played at their home ground!

This isn’t some special one-off advantage they have been awarded, as the Dutch Cup final since 1989 has always been played at De Kuip.

Good luck to Yankuba Minteh on Sunday and in the remaining four league games, then over to Eddie Howe and Newcastle United, as they decide what to do next season with the exciting young winger.

Last week, Yankuba Minteh talked to Algemeen Dagblad over in Holland, saying he was loving his progress this season and now just a case of seeing what NUFC will decide ahead of the 2024/25 campaign:

“Things are going well with Feyenoord.

“I am developing myself here.

“You look at the bigger picture.

“I am young and I am here to learn.

“Sometimes my decisions [on the pitch] were terrible [earlier this season with Feyenoord] but you learn quickly.

“I can’t say anything about my future [for next season] yet.

“However, another year at De Kuip [with Feyenoord], I wouldn’t mind that of course.”