This is not quite the day when true sports hearts rejoice. It cannot be, it is not natural to be. It is not normal for a European football fan to celebrate an evening in which a 24-year-old player, at a time when he was slowly growing into a great football star, discarded the opportunity to become someone who would popularize his African continent and one of the most populous nations in the world, Nigeria, by giving himself the chance to reach his full potential and shine where the world’s greatest attention is always focused—European football, the Champions League, and the strongest leagues. In this way, Africa and Nigeria have lost the chance to gain another great star, as the Leverkusen player, on the verge of his career peak, moved to Arabia.🚨🇳🇬 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 | Victor Boniface (24) will join Al-Nassr! Medical is complete. 🟡🔵€60m fee to Leverkusen – plus, Boniface will earn a wage of €15m net per season, reports @Plettigoal. pic.twitter.com/LavXFAKTka— EuroFoot (@eurofootcom) January 28, 2025 Victor Boniface rejected all of that and chose to earn not just a lot of money, but an absurd amount of money in his career, while remaining a player who will have a smaller career in European football than his compatriots like Jay-Jay Okocha, Nwankwo Kanu, Finidi George, Emmanuel Amunike, Yakubu Aiyegbeni… He could have been a great star and a world-class player, but Boniface will never become that. The Nigerian, born in 2000, decided to move to Al-Nassr, and Leverkusen will earn “more than 60 milion euros” from the transfer, according to German Sky Sports. Boniface will earn 15 milion dollars per year in the Middle East (previously, he was making 2 milions per season at Leverkusen).Victor Boniface’s comment on one of Cristiano Ronaldo’s IG posts from last year.Always been his fan 🐐 pic.twitter.com/FC4FVBe4Zr— ESPN Africa (@ESPNAfrica) January 28, 2025 It wasn’t hard to break Boniface’s resistance, as he wanted from the start to grab a huge amount of money, and Leverkusen was just waiting for the transfer offer to exceed 60 milions, which happened on Tuesday evening. Boniface will finish his tenure in Germany with a record of 29 goals in 49 matches across all competitions, along with 11 assists. Boniface was just about to reach his maximum potential in the next year or two and, at the peak of his career, play for one of the biggest European clubs. In this way, Boniface will be the first player from Nigeria to get the opportunity to play alongside Cristiano Ronaldo, so this also could be the reason why the Nigerian decided to join the club from Saudi Arabia.UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE – MATCHDAY 8Wednesday 23.00: (1.60) Aston Villa (4.20) Celtic (6.00)23.00: (1.80) Barcelona (4.00) Atalanta (4.50)23.00: (1.02) Bayern (17.0) Slovan B. (75.0)23.00: (8.00) Brest (5.30) Real Madrid (1.40)23.00: (6.00) Dinamo Zagreb (4.30) Milan (1.53)23.00: (1.37) Dortmund (5.10) Shakhtar (7.75)23.00: (5.60) Girona (3.70) Arsenal (1.65)23.00: (1.70) Inter (3.90) Monaco (5.50)23.00: (2.20) Juventus (3.35) Benfica (3.35)23.00: (1.12) Leverkusen (12.0) Sparta Praha (19.0)23.00: (2.15) Lille (3.50) Feyenoord (3.60)23.00: (1.18) Man.City (7.75) Club Brugge (13.0)23.00: (3.05) PSV (3.70) Liverpool (2.35)23.00: (9.00) Salzburg (5.00) Atl.Madrid (1.35)23.00: (1.50) Sporting (4.30) Bologna (6.50)23.00: (3.90) Sturm (3.50) RB Leipzig (1.95)23.00: (3.60) Stuttgart (2.45) PSG (2.75)23.00: (2.60) Young Boys (3.50) Crvena Zvezda (2.80)***odds are subject to change***
