Leeds to part with best part of £3m for Nketiah's services!

Good Morning. It's the start of a new decade as we continue to to keep faith with the mighty Leeds United. Here are today’s headlines...


Billy Sharpe coming back to Elland Road?

Multiple sources are claiming that Leeds have been in touch with their (bitter) South Yorkshire Neighbours at Bramall Lane about the availability of veteran striker Billy Sharp.

The 33 year old has scored just the once for the Blades in 10 appearances since their promotion to the Premiership.

You'll recall that Sharp had an unsuccessful stint at Elland Road during the 2014/15 season scoring 5 times in 33 appearances. Unfortunately for the former Southampton hitman, he was feeding off scraps making it very difficult to show his potential.

The following Summer, Leeds agreed to assist Sharp with a cut price move to his boyhood club for just 500k, as the Blades could not afford any more.

Since then, he has scored 88 goals in 174, better than a one in two ratio, including 24 goals last season in the Championship, ultimately making the difference between promotion and play offs.

Unfortunately for the Whites, Blades Manager Chris Wilder has blocked any chance of Sharp having a second stint at ER, and was quoted as follows...

He’s a talented player, who has done fantastically well. He doesn’t want to go anywhere, I don’t want him to go anywhere.

So, as far as I’m concerned, that’s the end of the conversation with him.

Leeds to part with best part of £3m for Nketiah's services!

Yorkshire Evening Post journalist Graham Smyth has revealed that Leeds paid Arsenal 4m for the services of Eddie Nketiah; albeit with the 20 year old returning to the Emirates, the final balance will be closer to £3m.

It just shows that the Nketiah signing was Orta's idea, bot Bielsa's! During Bamfords 10 game drought, Nketiah barely had an opportunity to showcase his talent; its a lot more difficult to influence a game as a second half substitute when you're cold, and have to catch up to the pace of the game knowing you have limited time to make an impact!

If Leeds were happy to pay £4m on a season long loanee, why not sign Ryan Kent. The 23 year old has a one in two goal ratio for Rangers since his £6.5m permanent move to the Scottish giants in September and many MOTM awards.

I wonder who wanted Ryan Kent at ER? Bielsa or Orta?





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