Leeds United are closing in on their fourth signing of the summer season switch window as a transfer for Darko Gyabi edges in direction of completion…
What’s the phrase?
The Manchester City starlet is set to endure a medical at Thorp Arch as we speak (Friday 1st July) forward of his swap from the Premier League champions, who’re anticipated to signal Whites academy graduate Kalvin Phillips within the area of £45m.
That’s in keeping with Yorkshire Evening Post reporter Graham Smyth in a latest column for the web site.
The 18-year-old central midfielder, capped at England U18s degree, is predicted to price round £5m and can quickly link up for pre-season coaching in a bid to battle for a spot in Jesse Marsch’s first crew.
Will Darko Gyabi grow to be a star at Leeds?
YES!
NO!
Marsch will see the potential
Whilst the Yorkshire aspect and the American head coach are shedding certainly one of their standout performers to considerably a top-flight rival, they’re getting a massively promising expertise in return.
Marsch has experience in creating younger gamers, largely seen throughout his spell at RB Salzburg, the place he coached the likes of Erling Haaland, Patson Daka, Takumi Minamino, Dominik Szoboszlai, Brenden Aaronson and plenty of extra.
Therefore, the duty at hand of evolving Gyabi right into a future star is one which is able to excite the previous RB Leipzig boss. In the Man City gem, he’ll be getting some participant.
The teenager has grow to be one thing of a stalwart for the U18s and U23s on the Etihad Campus, registering 39 appearances throughout the 2 groups since his transfer from Millwall in 2018.
Gyabi has been lauded as an “exceptional young player” by former Lions supervisor Neil Harris, in addition to a “wonderful talent” by skilled soccer coach Harry Brooks, who additionally claimed:
“He will have made his Premier League debut by the end of the season, I have zero doubts. If you’re building an ideal number 8 in a lab, you’d come up with something like him.”
If that seems to be the case, then he may nicely be the long-term inheritor to Phillips’ throne in west Yorkshire, although it’ll be on Marsch to attain such a feat, one thing he’ll undoubtedly relish.
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