Leeds can land Max alternative in Sosa

Leeds United have just lately been linked with a transfer to deliver PSV Eindhoven left-back Philipp Max to Elland Highway this summer season.

Nonetheless, regardless of Victor Orta reportedly submitting an €8m (£6.7m) bid for the Germany worldwide, additional reports have prompt that it will take an incredible deal extra to prise the 28-year-old away from the Eredivisie aspect, whereas the Dutch membership’s supervisor Ruud van Nistelrooy additionally just lately claimed that he wouldn’t be open to letting the defender go away the membership this summer season.

In feedback cited by Leeds Live, the previous Manchester United centre-forward stated: “There may be not a hair on my head fascinated with letting Max go. And the way in which he [performs], I’m very happy with that.”

As such, with a transfer for Max trying more and more unlikely as we edge ever near the closure of the summer season switch window on September 1, Orta will little doubt have turned his focus elsewhere available in the market in his bid so as to add a brand new left-back to Jesse Marsch’s first staff squad.

There would look like one standout candidate with whom the Whites have already been linked this summer season, within the form of VfB Stuttgart left-back Borna Sosa.

With Orta clearly searching for a left-sided defender who likes to get ahead – as evidenced by the Spaniard’s reported curiosity in Max, who has scored eight objectives and registered 18 assists over his 93 appearances for PSV – Stuttgart’s Croatian worldwide would very a lot look like one thing of a dream different to the German.

Certainly, over his 28 Bundesliga appearances final season, the £20.7m-rated full-back greater than proved his potential within the closing third, scoring one purpose, offering eight assists and creating 9 massive possibilities for his team-mates, along with averaging 2.2 key passes, 2.5 crosses and 1.3 dribbles per sport.

These returns noticed the £15k-per-week defender common a fairly outstanding SofaScore match score of 7.26, not solely rating him as Pellegrino Matarazzo’s best performer within the league but additionally because the joint 13th-best participant within the German prime flight as a complete.

Moreover, with Ben Jacobs revealing on Twitter final month that Stuttgart can be keen to half with the participant who Sven Mislintat dubbed a “weapon” for a determine within the area of £20m this summer season, it will very a lot seem that, if Orta can match the Bundesliga membership’s asking value, a deal for Sosa won’t be troublesome to recover from the road.

As such, contemplating his similarities to Max, coupled together with his availability available in the market, it will appear advisable for Leeds to launch a bid for the six-cap worldwide within the coming weeks, as Sosa would very a lot look like a participant who ticks a number of Orta’s bins for the signing of a brand new left-back this summer season.