Leeds United are out there for a brand new left-back within the January switch window.
That’s based on journalist Pete O’Rourke, who claimed that strengthening the place is a high precedence for supervisor Jesse Marsch and director of soccer Victor Orta after the World Cup.
“I think left back is definitely a top priority,” he revealed to GIVEMESPORT.
“If they can go and find a new left-back and maybe if a centre-half did become available on the market, it’s something that they might look at to try and shore up their defensive woes.”
The arrival of a brand new left-back could truly clear up the central defensive subject too, seeing because the towering presence of Pascal Struijk has been shifted on the market for almost all of the season.
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One identify that has been linked with a change to Elland Road is Valencia teenager Jesus Vazquez.
Reports in Spain (as relayed by Sport Witness) declare that the Yorkshire giants are within the race for his signature heading into the brand new yr, although they face competitors from the likes of Inter Milan and AZ Alkmaar.
Vazquez’s development at Los Che has been stunted by the truth that he has two different gamers forward of him within the pecking order, the long-serving Jose Gaya and Toni Lato.
The 19-year-old gem has been lauded as an “exciting prospect” by expertise scout Jacek Kulig and did begin Valencia’s opening two LaLiga video games of the season, so their supervisor actually trusts him to be referred to as upon at such an early stage of his profession.
Whether it’s Vazquez or one other left-back, it is going to permit the American head coach to place the 23-year-old again in his pure central place, the place the aspect look weakest – even skipper Liam Cooper appears to be like a shadow of his outdated self. It wants that youthful injection and that’s what the Dutchman can present.
LeedsStay reporter Beren Cross as soon as lauded Struijk as “the future” at Elland Road, while journalist Daniel Fraiz-Martine has beforehand dubbed him a “monster.”
Not solely does he stand a whopping 6 foot 3 in top however the £29k-per-week titan had topped the passing accuracy charts up to now two seasons, as per WhoScored, however now on the left, he’s the seventh-best passer.
Meanwhile, by way of FBref, the previous Ajax graduate sits amongst the highest 3% for aerial duels gained, the highest 7% for tackles and the highest 12% for blocks per 90, when in comparison with his positional friends throughout Europe’s elite 5 divisions.
He’s clearly able to mixing it with the very best, which is why he – and subsequently Leeds – would profit from a left-back addition reminiscent of Vazquez in January.
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