Yankuba Minteh, a Newcastle United loanee, scored his fourth goal in three games for Feyenoord over the weekend.
Yankuba Minteh’s Feyenoord goal-scoring spree continued on Sunday, as he scored again in a 3-0 win over Heracles in the Dutch Eredivisie.
The Newcastle United loanee opened the scoring with a first-time strike off a clever dummy from Lutsharel Geertruida, his eighth goal of the season in only 14 appearances. It was the 19-year-old winger’s fourth goal in his previous three games, following a 2-2 draw with PSV Eindhoven last weekend and a brace in a 2-0 victory against Almere City the week before.
Seven of his goals have been in the league, and he also scored in the Champions League group stage defeat to Celtic in December.
Minteh joined Newcastle from Odense in the summer for about £7 million, before being loaned to Feyenoord for the 2023-24 season. During the January transfer window, there was speculation that Newcastle would re-sign Minteh due to an injury crisis. However, because there was no recall clause, the club did not attempt to shorten his loan period. Minteh will spend the season at Feyenoord before returning to Tyneside at the end of the season for further evaluation.
The club will then decide whether to loan him out again or keep him in Eddie Howe’s Premier League first-team squad.
However, Feyenoord technical director Dennis te Kloese has indicated that the club will discuss the idea of loaning Minteh for another season.
“Newcastle United will discuss this in April,” he told Dutch newspaper AD. “He is getting better. His speed is astounding, yet he’s still so young.
Minteh is also considering another season at Feyenoord. After scoring over the weekend, he stated, “If I have the opportunity to stay here, I will. Feyenoord is an excellent club.”
Feyenoord won the Dutch league last season, but are presently second in the table, 10 points behind leaders PSV with nine games remaining. The Rotterdam side has been eliminated from the Champions League and Europa League, but they have advanced to the KNVB Cup final, where they will face NEC Nijmegen on April 21 at De Kuip.
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