Leeds United defender Max Wober has opened up about the mental health issues he experienced while out injured at Ajax that almost led him to quit football altogether.
The 25-year-old Austrian international has been a regular for Leeds United since joining from Red Bull Salzburg in January, but he admits he would never have made it to Elland Road if he had not sought support for his struggles with depressive symptoms during his time in the Netherlands.
Speaking as part of the Premier League’s Inside Matters mental health campaign, Wober said: “I had just started to come to the first team at Rapid Vienna and suddenly in the summer transfer period Ajax Amsterdam called me and said ‘OK, we really want to buy you’. The first few months were amazing – to play regularly in front of 50,000 people was my dream.
