Yankuba Minteh on fire with goals and an assist as Feyenoord smash Ajax | OneFootball

What a performance by Yankuba Minteh on Sunday.

The Newcastle United loan star on fire.

Feyenoord up against big rivals Ajax but it was absolutely one-sided, with Yankuba Minteh at the heart of so much of it.

With now fourteen league starts as well as nine appearances off the bench, Yankuba Mineth has thirteen direct goal involvements for Feyenoord in the league, scoring nine and four assists.

However, ending the season very strongly, the NUFC loan star now has eight direct goal involvements (six goals and two assists) in his last eight matches for Feyenoord.

This afternoon Yankuba Minteh superbly setting up the first goal…

Then scoring the second himself…

Before scoring the fourth, a hat-trick of direct goal involvements today…

Minteh subbed off after 75 minutes with the score 6-0, which is how it finished.

Later this month, Yankuba Minteh could be set to pick up a medal, as Feyenoord play in the Dutch Cup final.

Minteh’s raw pace and talent has been increasingly leading to creating and scoring goals.

Last month, the 19 year old winger said (see below) that he was really enjoying his time at Feyenoord but that it was a case of not if, but when, he would reach his intended eventual destination, playing for Newcastle United in the Premier League.

That was then followed by Feyenoord boss Arne Slot speaking (also below) about the winger’s progress, worrying that that progress is now happening too quick!

The Feyenoord boss saying that Minteh’s raw talent and sheer natural pace, is now ever more rapidly getting enhanced with better decision making in the final third, when it comes to creating and scoring goals.

So much so that Arne Slot has indicated that the Dutch club’s chances of getting Yankuba Minteh back on loan next season are now swiftly diminishing. With the teenager ever more likely to be involved with the Newcastle United first team squad next season.

Arne Slot talking to Dutch media, Rondo, about Yankuba Minteh – 26 March 2024:

“Yankuba Minteh has mainly played a lot in his native country, where very few tactics are involved.

“If you are that fast, it is a huge weapon.

“One action and he is gone, then you will not catch up with him again.

“I think that his choices are already improving in the final phase.

“The bad thing for us is that if his choices become really good, he will probably no longer play for us.”

The winger speaking to Voetbal International – 13 March 2024:

“I believe very much in myself, in my qualities. In addition, you just have to go for your career, stay focused.

“There is no point in thinking that it is all going so quickly. I better be happy with it.

“That two years ago I played for Steve Biko FC in Gambia and this year I made my debut in the Champions League.

“Playing at Feyenoord, I made my debut in the Champions League, but at the same time I also think that I could perhaps have shown a little more. Okay, I scored against Celtic and recently against PSV and Heracles Almelo, but also opportunities missed. I am not easily satisfied.

“I really want to win the cup. That is a tangible prize.

“A second place (in the league), I know that it will qualify us for the Champions League and in that respect it is worth as much as a trophy, but that’s not how it feels to me.

“I want to become a champion, that’s what you play for. The cup would give our season extra shine.

“My parents sit in front of the television, like everyone else in Gambia. The whole country (backs me). It can become the first real prize for me as a footballer. If it were up to me, the first of many.

“Ultimately though, the Premier League is my goal.

“Newcastle United is the club that have a lot of confidence in me.

“I have no idea what the future looks like.

“I was in Newcastle once, when they played against Borussia Dortmund.

“I will hear soon what plans the club has for me.

“I’m still young, I have time, maybe they want to loan me out again.

“I don’t know yet, I’ll hear about it.

“I’ll let everything happen to me.

“I know only that one day I will play in the Premier League (for Newcastle United).”