Final season’s UEFA Europa League top-scorer joined Die Werkself in a deal price over twenty million euros in the summertime switch window.
Tremendous Eagles striker, Victor Okoh Boniface, has described Bundesliga aspect, Bayer 04 Leverkusen as the right membership for him, Soccernet.ng studies.
The Nigerian loved a stellar season in Belgium with Union Saint-Gilloise, and his performances noticed him transfer to a much bigger membership in Leverkusen.
Below the tutelage of Xabi Alonso, Boniface has scored ten targets and arrange one other 4 for his teammates in simply fourteen outings for the Reds.
Chatting with UEFA, the 22-year-old talked about how his performances in opposition to German groups might need earned him a transfer to Germany.
“I had a great season with Union Saint-Gilloise and with them within the Europa League, fortunately for us, we performed in opposition to two German groups. Union Berlin, and Bayer Leverkusen, and I feel I did fairly effectively for myself,” the 1.91m tall striker instructed UEFA.com.
Boniface had provides from a number of high golf equipment throughout Europe, however the Nigerian opted to play for Leverkusen due to excessive expectations and the strain that comes with enjoying soccer on the highest stage.
“I had good choices from totally different golf equipment, however for my soccer journey, it’s step-by-step. I didn’t need to leap from the Belgian league to the Premier League, as a result of it’s an enormous step and the expectation is excessive, and Leverkusen, is a good workforce, with the way in which they play soccer, they’re one of many greatest golf equipment in Germany,” the 22-year-old added.
With ten targets in fourteen video games, Boniface feels Leverkusen are an ideal match for him, and the perfect workforce for him to develop as a younger participant.
“Once I was in Nigeria, my agent instructed me about Leverkusen’s curiosity and he instructed me they develop younger gamers,
and I stated to myself, I like the way in which they play. I spoke to the director and he defined every little thing to me and I believed, that is the right membership for me.”
With Boniface in assault, Leverkusen are unbeaten on all fronts, and have been the primary membership to attain fifty targets in Europe this time period, remaining stable at each ends of the pitch.