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da dobrowin： [ad_pod ]This article is part of Football FanCast’s Transfer Focus series, which provides opinion and analysis on recent transfer news…Per a report from David Ornstein, Eddie Nketiah is now nearing a loan move to Leeds as he heads to Elland Road to wrap up a deal.
What’s the word?
After Kemar Roofe switched the white of Leeds for the purple of Anderlecht, the Yorkshire club were always going to need to look at bringing in another striker.
Besides the young Ryan Edmondson, Patrick Bamford was the sole forward at the club in terms of senior players so their attacking line was looking particularly thin on the ground.
A move for Andrea Petagna had been touted last week but nothing materialised. As such, Leeds look as though they’ve turned to the loan market once again.
Arsenal’s Nketiah seems as though he could be the latest to arrive, according to Ornstein, who claims he is travelling to Leeds to put pen to paper on a loan move for the duration of the 2019/20 campaign.
Orta comes up trumps
Leeds have had a topsy-turvy transfer window, struggling to bring in players of note to improve the team both in attacking and defensive phases of play.
They landed Helder Costa and Ben White earlier in the window but any striker looked to be thrown out the window when Victor Orta said they were 90% done in terms of their plan this summer.
However, that has taken a twist in the final days of the window with Leeds bringing in goalkeeper Illan Meslier.
Yet it’s Nketiah who Leeds have demonstrated their pulling power with.
Orta has been somewhat questionable during the transfer window but he’s finally come up trumps with this latest reported move.
Ornstein claims that he was able to make an impressive late pitch which convinced him to reject Bristol City and two other clubs in order to push through a temporary move to Elland Road.
Selling the Marcelo Bielsa vision is huge. After all, this is a manager who has managed some top clubs around Europe and under the Argentine, there could be no better place for someone like the 20-year-old to learn.
We’ve already seen the impact he’s had on the likes of Jack Clarke and Tyler Roberts last season.
If there were any ever doubts over whether the Whites could still attract top talent, this will surely put them to bed. For once, Orta is on the verge of truly delivering for Leeds.
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