Leeds United have been dealt a blow of their bid to convey Ivan Toney to Elland Road this summer time.
What’s the discuss?
That’s in response to a report by iNews, who declare that, regardless of the centre-forward being linked with a transfer to all of Leeds, Manchester United, Newcastle United and West Ham United in current weeks, Brentford are reluctant to half with the 26-year-old forward of the 2022/23 marketing campaign.
However, the report does goes on to state that, ought to a suggestion of £40m be submitted for the previous Peterborough United striker this summer time, the Bees’ proprietor, Matthew Benham, could possibly be tempted into cashing in on the Northampton-born hitman within the present transfer window.
“Underrated”
Considering simply how spectacular Toney was for Brentford final season, it isn’t troublesome to why Victor Orta could be eager to convey the ahead to Elland Road this summer time, nor it’s arduous to grasp why Thomas Frank is determined to retain the companies of the 26-year-old forward of the brand new season.
Indeed, over his 33 Premier League appearances in 2021/22, the £31.5m-rated expertise was in devastating type for the Bees, scoring 12 objectives, registering 5 assists and creating ten large possibilities for his teammates, in addition to taking a mean of two.7 pictures, making 1.3 key passes and profitable 8.6 duels – at successful fee of 53% – per recreation.
These returns noticed the £21k-per-week striker who Rob Blanchette labelled “underrated” and Layth Yousif claimed “will play for England” common a fairly astonishing SofaScore match ranking of 7.31, not solely rating him as Brentford’s second-best performer within the league but in addition because the 15th-best participant within the prime flight has an entire final trip.
As such, whereas £40m is undoubtedly a particularly massive payment to pay for a striker with only one full Premier League marketing campaign beneath his belt, contemplating the output Toney proved he can ship within the league final season, the 26-year-old may nicely be price this hefty payment for the Whites – as we might not wager in opposition to the goal man happening to turn out to be an England worldwide in 2022/23, as Yousif suggests.
AND in different news: Orta begins Leeds talks for “wonderkid” with an £85m clause, it’d be an enormous coup