Leeds United sold the Swedish centre-back on Monday night.
Former Leeds United man Andy Couzens is confused by Pontus Jansson’s parting message.
Leeds sold the Sweden international to Brentford in a £5.5 million deal on Monday night [Yorkshire Evening Post].
Jansson did an interview with Swedish media on Tuesday and claimed that his ambition is to play in the Premier League, and did not want to pass up the chance to sign for the Bees while waiting for a top-flight club to show interest later in the transfer window.
“My ambition is to play in the Premier League but I didn’t want to sit and wait for the right club in the Premier League to make an offer later in the summer and let this chance [to join Brentford] pass me by,” he told Aftonbladet.
“I felt early on that Brentford was right for me.”
But Couzens is perplexed by Jansson’s logic and claimed on Twitter that if playing in the top tier was really his ambition, the 28-year-old would have waited.
Couzens might have a point. Brentford are a good club, but they’re not exactly favourites to win Premier League promotion this season.
If Jansson is desperate to rub shoulders with England’s elite, waiting for one of the top-flight clubs to make a move was the right play.
By the end of his Bees’ contract, the likelyhood will be that he’s too old to get a move to the Premier League.
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