Yankuba Minteh: Football Profile, Brighton, Gambia Caps and Net Worth

Yankuba Minteh is a Gambian right winger, born on 22 July 2004 in Serekunda, who joined Brighton & Hove Albion in July 2024. He represents Gambia internationally, bringing his direct running into Premier League football, also known as soccer, and giving supporters across the continent a Gambian player to follow. His route from Bakoteh to England explains the player more clearly than a transfer price alone.

His net worth is undisclosed, and the estimates circulating online are unverified. For his international record, check the live national team module and its update date for Gambia appearances and goals. His career story traces how a winger spotted on sand reached a reported £30 million transfer.

Who Is Yankuba Minteh?

Minteh is a right winger whose senior career began in Gambian football before taking him through Denmark and the Netherlands to England. His move to Brighton Hove Albion became effective on 1 July 2024, following a season on loan at Feyenoord. The dated move establishes his club connection; the squad and appearance modules carry later developments. For readers discovering him through the Premier League, the Gambian beginning deserves equal attention.

Among African footballers followed across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda, his appeal is easy to understand: he carries the possibility of a direct route from local football into a major European competition.

The Road From Bakoteh: Clubs, Years and Reported Fees

Minteh’s route began at Bakoteh United, continued at Steve Biko and reached European football with OB in Denmark in 2022. His senior breakthrough came with Steve Biko during the 2021/22 Gambian league season, when the club finished third. Fees for those early moves were not reported.

The human beginning comes from The Standard’s September 2024 account: his father, Buhari Minteh, is a chef, and his mother, Mam Jassey, sells vegetables. He is one of seven children, and the family lived in a rented house with two rooms. Former OB player Bakary Bojang spotted him playing on a sand pitch in Bakoteh and helped arrange his European opportunity. Trials followed in summer 2021 and early 2022 before the Danish move.

OB signed him in summer 2022 on a contract lasting two years, and his introduction supplied an early defining match. On 10 September 2022, he scored the winner on his Danish Superliga debut as OB beat Copenhagen 2 to 1. Newcastle then signed him effective from 1 July 2023. The Standard reported a £6 million fee, while the encyclopaedic career record cites reports of about €7 million; these are reported descriptions of the same move.

He could not join the Newcastle squad that season, so he spent 2023/24 on loan at Feyenoord. No loan fee was reported. Newcastle subsequently agreed his Brighton sale in June 2024, with the move effective on 1 July for a reported £30 million and a contract lasting five years. The Standard linked the sale to Newcastle’s financial planning.

What Does Minteh Do on the Pitch?

Minteh is a quick, direct right winger who gives an attack a route forward through carrying the ball. Watch his starting position, the space ahead of him and the defender’s response before judging the final action. When a full back retreats, the winger can advance his team; when another defender comes across, a passing lane may open elsewhere. That is why his contribution needs more attention than a goals column alone.

His Feyenoord season supplies a firm historical measure of that attacking role. To the end of the 2023/24 season, he had scored 10 goals in 27 Eredivisie appearances, with 11 goals across 37 appearances in all competitions. He also won the KNVB Cup that season. Keep those totals separate when comparing records: the league line measures his domestic league work, while the larger total includes the other competitions Feyenoord played.

His first Premier League goal offers another useful reference. On 6 October 2024, he scored in Brighton’s 3 to 2 victory over Tottenham, following his club debut in the 3 to 0 win at Everton on 17 August 2024. For Nigerian readers comparing African wingers in England, the useful question is how each player advances an attack. Minteh’s direct running gives that comparison a clear starting point without asking every winger to play the same way.

For a closer reading of the Gambian winger’s decisions, follow a possession from the pass into his feet. Does he receive facing the defender, or must he turn first? Is a teammate offering a pass inside, and is there someone arriving in the penalty area? Those details help explain whether a dribble, an early delivery or a return pass suits the situation. Then watch his movement after releasing the ball. A run beyond the defender can create a second opening even when the first pass does not produce a shot. This offers a useful viewing checklist alongside the appearance and scoring records.

Minteh and the Scorpions: Caps, Goals and AFCON

Minteh’s international breakthrough came in 2023, after his first Gambia call up on 4 November 2022. He scored his first senior international goal in the 2 to 2 draw with DR Congo on 10 September 2023. That goal belongs near the centre of his story because it connects the European career with the Scorpions shirt. For a young Gambian attacker, recognition abroad and responsibility at home develop alongside each other.

He represented Gambia at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast, which was played in January and February 2024. The edition name and playing dates can cause confusion, so both belong together. His appearance was a tournament participation, while the KNVB Cup with Feyenoord in 2023/24 was a trophy win. Keeping those categories separate gives readers a clearer account of his honours and international experience.

Read the live national team module for Minteh’s Gambia caps and goals, checking its update stamp before quoting the totals.

When comparing his club and Gambia appearances, look at the role as well as the competition. Check whether he starts wide, receives closer to the centre or enters from the bench, then consider how much playing time the record covers. A brief substitute appearance and a full match each add an appearance, but offer different opportunities to influence the attack. For supporters across the five countries, that distinction makes international comparisons more useful and keeps attention on what Minteh is being asked to contribute for the Scorpions.

Yankuba Minteh net worth

Yankuba Minteh’s net worth is undisclosed. The figures below are published wage reports, and no net worth estimate is confirmed. Online estimates remain unverified, so they do not provide a sound figure to repeat. Net worth requires information about assets and liabilities that a transfer announcement or wage report cannot supply. A footballer can have widely reported earnings while the amount of personal wealth remains unknown.

The Nerve Africa reported on 19 January 2024 that his Feyenoord loan salary for 2023/24 was about €260,000 annually before bonuses, roughly €5,000 a week. It also reported about €31,316 annually at OB in 2022/23. These are published wage estimates, rather than personal accounts or a statement of his Brighton earnings. Their dates matter, especially when a search result presents an earlier salary beside the name of a later club.

His Brighton move in July 2024 came with a reported contract lasting five years, but that contract length does not establish his salary. Read any salary module alongside its source, reporting date and explanation of bonuses. No endorsement deal or separate image rights payment was reported. Likewise, no supported market valuation is available to quote, and his reported transfer fee should retain its own label.

The reported £30 million transfer payment concerned the transaction between clubs; it was not a £30 million payment into Minteh’s personal account. Wages are income over a period, while net worth depends on what someone owns and owes. Converting an unsupported wealth estimate into naira, shillings, rand or cedis would only make the uncertainty look more precise. For readers comparing earnings, retain the original currency and the reporting year first.

How to Watch Minteh From Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Uganda

To watch Minteh, start with the fixture module and identify whether the match is Premier League football, another club competition or a Gambia international. The competition determines which viewing listing to check. Use the country viewing module for Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana or Uganda, then confirm that the individual match appears in the broadcaster’s schedule. A channel carrying club football does not automatically carry the Scorpions’ international fixtures.

Read the local kick off conversion alongside the match date: WAT for Nigeria, EAT for Kenya and Uganda, SAST for South Africa, and GMT for Ghana. For example, a listed 15:00 GMT start means 16:00 WAT, 18:00 EAT and 17:00 SAST. That is a conversion example rather than a fixture announcement. Use the module’s local time instead of assuming every English afternoon match starts at the same hour throughout the year.

For a shared viewing plan, send the competition, both teams, match date and all four time zones together. Check whether the programme listing gives the start of coverage or the actual kick off, particularly when arranging to watch with friends in another country. Before settling in to follow Minteh, check the team sheet as well: a fixture involving his club or Gambia does not establish that he will start. The line up and substitutes provide the match specific information needed to follow his involvement.