Leeds United may ramp up their efforts to convey Martin Terrier to Elland Road within the coming days.
What’s the speak?
That’s in accordance with Ben Jacobs, with the CBS journalist revealing in a latest interview with GIVEMESPORT that, regardless of it being believed that Victor Orta is in talks with Paris Saint-Germain concerning a deal for Arnaud Kalimuendo, the Spaniard may look to accentuate his curiosity within the Stade Rennais centre-forward this week.
Jacobs goes on to counsel that this might be all the way down to the truth that, alongside the Whites’ transfer for the 20-year-old PSG expertise showing to have stalled considerably, Jesse Marsch doesn’t need to begin the brand new Premier League season – that kicks off on Saturday – being overly reliant on Patrick Bamford.
Regarding Leeds’ curiosity in Terrier, the journalist mentioned: “This is a player that Leeds really like. It’s not as advanced as Kalimuendo at this point, but we’re getting to that stage now where Leeds don’t want to start the season over-reliant on Bamford, and as a consequence, they may well ramp up their efforts on Terrier.”
Perfect Kalimuendo various
While Kalimuendo is undoubtedly an extremely thrilling younger striker – having scored 21 objectives and registered six assists over 65 appearances throughout a two-year mortgage with RC Lens in 2020/21 and 2021/22 – ought to Orta find yourself lacking out on a deal for the 20-year-old, Terrier would very a lot seem like an ideal various to the France U21 worldwide.
Indeed, in accordance with FBref, the £22.5m-rated Rennes hitman ranks within the high 2% of forwards in Europe’s huge 5 leagues and European competitions for non-penalty objectives per 90, in addition to the highest 8% for non-penalty xG, the highest 7% for aerial duels gained, the highest 18% for pictures and the highest 27% for move completion over the past twelve months.
The £21k-per-week expertise additionally returns spectacular metrics in a defensive capability, with FBref additionally rating the 25-year-old within the high 28% of forwards for clearances per 90, along with the highest 30% for tackles, the highest 37% for strain and the highest 29% for blocks over the previous 12 months.
These returns see the web site listing a number of the Frenchman’s most comparable gamers because the likes of Bayern Munich’s Sadio Mane and RB Leipzig’s Christopher Nkunku, whereas European soccer author Tim Williams – talking on the Sky Sports Transfer Talk podcast – even went so far as to match Terrier to Arsenal legend, Thierry Henry.
Williams mentioned: “He’s a very quick, left-sided right-footed attacking player whose trademark is coming in off the left flank and whipping shots in, a-la Thierry Henry. Looking at his age and the phenomenal season he had last season, he will probably think that if he is ever going to make a big move to the Premier League, it’s probably going to be now or never.”
As such, whereas it’s plain that Kalimuendo is an especially thrilling prospect for the longer term, ought to Orta fail in his bid to temp the 20-year-old to Elland Road, the £30m Rennes sensation who Bruno Genesio dubbed “high-level” would seem like one thing of an ideal various – and maybe even an enchancment upon – the PSG starlet.