Leeds must land Philipp Max transfer deal

Leeds United have seen quite a few players make strikes away from the Yorkshire membership throughout their latest summer season and winter switch home windows.

One large identify that waved goodbye to Elland Street in the course of the 2021 summer season switch window was Ezgjan Alioski.

After making 169 appearances for the Whites, over which he racked up 22 targets and 19 assists, the left-back joined Saudi membership Al-Ahli SFC.

Though the Yorkshire membership brought in Junior Firpo as Alioski’s substitute, the full-back had a troublesome debut season with Leeds wherein he solely managed to offer one help in 23 appearances in addition to racking up 11 yellow playing cards and quite a few harm points.

Now, the remaining few weeks of the present market might give Victor Orta the prospect to usher in a better-suited substitute and potential subsequent model of the north Macedonian to Elland Street.

One potential candidate for this function that the Whites have been linked with just lately is PSV Eindhoven left-back Philipp Max.

With 247 mixed appearances beneath his belt for PSV and his previous membership FC Augsburg, the £19k-per-week defender has racked up 23 targets and 37 assists, highlighting his clear attacking expertise.

In truth, with 25 league appearances to his identify final season, the 28-year-old delivered the second-highest variety of crosses at PSV (92) in addition to having 23 pictures at objective.

Allowing for how Alioski managed to ship 536 crosses in 161 league appearances for Leeds throughout the Championship and Premier League, it’s secure to say that Max has the attacking capabilities to be a greater model of the previous Leeds full-back than Firpo.

From a defensive perspective, the German confirmed his mettle by profitable 31 tackles and making 17 interceptions, proving how stable he will be with out the ball in addition to on it going ahead.

Previously hailed as being “among the best left-backs in Germany,” in accordance with former Augsburg teammate Tin Jedvaj, Max will surely be an enormous asset for Jesse Marsch, particularly when it comes to serving to the facet assault their opponents.

Bearing in mind how Firpo just lately picked up an injury that may reportedly see him miss the primary few weeks of the brand new Premier League season, now may very well be the right time for Orta to launch a transfer for the PSV dynamo and convey him to Elland Street.

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