GFFN Awards | Why was Mika Biereth elected our Ligue 1 Signing of the Season? | OneFootball

Arriving in January, Mika Biereth (22) has fired AS Monaco back into the UEFA Champions League and has now been elected Get French Football News’ Signing of the Season. The Denmark international received a vote from all but two of GFFN’s journalists and also secured over a quarter of the total votes in the public vote; only Paris Saint-Germain’s João Neves got more. Here is why Biereth won the award:

Monaco found themselves in a sticky situation in January. Wissam Ben Yedder’s consistent output over past seasons was already hard to replace following his departure the previous summer and essentially his replacement, Folarin Balogun, was forced to undergo shoulder surgery in December. He would remain sidelined for several months and so Monaco needed a striker to come in and hit the ground running.

They turned to Mika Biereth. Arriving mid-season, at the age of 21, from the Austrian league, no one expected the Arsenal academy product to have the impact he had as he netted hat-tricks in three consecutive home games in Ligue 1. He would go on to end the season with 13 in Ligue 1; no Monaco player scored more.

“Of course, he has surpassed expectations. Nobody could predict that a young player would arrive and score so many goals, as he has,” Monaco CEO Thiago Scuro told us in an exclusive interview in March. The striker has since made his debut for the Denmark squad and he has been pivotal in helping the Principality club reach their objective in qualifying for next season’s Champions League. At a crucial time, he not only filled a gaping hole in the Monaco squad but also took their attack to another level. He may have only arrived a few months ago, and Scuro has stated that Biereth is a player he envisages being a part of the project for the foreseeable future, but interest in the prolific forward this summer feels inevitable.

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