Victor Boniface has made an excellent start to his career at Bayer Leverkusen, scoring eight goals and providing three assists in seven games.
Former Germany international and Bayern Munich midfielder Lothar Matthäus has revealed that given the chance, he would have signed newly-signed Super Eagles striker Victor Boniface with his old club, Soccernet.ng reported.
Boniface has been a revelation for Bayer Leverkusen since joining the club from Belgian club Royale Saint Girioz in the summer, scoring 11 goals in his first seven appearances and scoring all of his goals. Contributed to the official games.
Boniface has scored six goals and provided two assists in five Bundesliga games, helping Leverkusen move into first place alongside champions Bayern Munich.
He also contributed a goal in the 8-0 win over Germany Ottensen in the DFB Cup and in the opening game of the last Europa League, he scored 1 in Werkself’s 4-0 win over Swedish club BK Hacken. He had a goal and one assist. Thursday.
As a reward for his excellent start to his career in Germany, Bonifatius was named both Bundesliga Player of the Month and Newcomer of the Month for August.
After a good start with Leverkusen, former Ballon d’Or and FIFA World Cup winner Lothar Matthäus was not surprised by the Nigerian striker’s great performance at the beginning of the season, and it was incredible for him. He revealed that it was wonderful. It took some time before Boniface attracted the attention of German clubs.
It was only through the Europa League match between Union Berlin vs. Leverkusen vs. Royale Union St. Girioz that Boniface’s name came to prominence in Germany.
Matthew praised the great job done by Leverkusen’s scouting department in signing the Nigerian striker for a whopping £20m, adding that he would have signed the player from his former club Bayern Munich if given the chance. revealed.
He said: Congratulations to Leverkusen – I say this for the rest of the scouting departments in the Bundesliga: 17 in grade 5 for not bringing this player from Belgium for this amount of money That’s twice as much Mateus wrote in his Sky column as quoted by Spox
Perhaps some clubs were concerned because he has already torn his cruciate ligament twice, said the record international.
But after seeing him a couple of times, I thought I’d run from Munich to Belgium for this player.
Boniface will aim to continue his impressive goalscoring form when Xabi Aloncho and his squad travel to Mainz 05 on Saturday for their next league match.
