Leeds Could Land “Outstanding” £9m Ayling Heir

Leeds United are establishing for a transformative summer season with the 49ers takeover completed and the brand new house owners eager to shortly repair the various points at Elland Highway to make sure a fast return to Premier League soccer.

The Whites are nonetheless with out a supervisor and a sporting director at current which can be an more and more urgent concern for the membership as they should make investments as a lot time as they will into rebuilding the squad, particularly with quite a lot of departures anticipated after struggling relegation final month.

Leeds are eager on quite a lot of managerial candidates together with Scott Parker, Brendan Rodgers, Daniel Farke, Steven Gerrard and Carlos Corberan, however are but to place a foot firmly ahead for one among them as they proceed to deliberate.

While the brand new supervisor will doubtless play an enormous half within the recruitment over the summer season switch window, the dearth of a number one determine has not stopped Leeds from being linked with quite a lot of gamers who may turn out to be a part of the brand new chapter at Elland Highway.

One participant who was linked to a transfer to West Yorkshire final week is Fenerbahce ace Vivid Osayi-Samuel; a flexible expertise who may turn out to be an enormous asset to the membership of their Championship marketing campaign subsequent season.

Who’s Vivid Osayi-Samuel?

The 25-year-old expertise isn’t any stranger to the second tier after rising by means of the ranks of Blackpool’s youth academy earlier than making the transfer to Queens Park Rangers the place he spent 4 years.

Now, Osayi-Samuel is plying his commerce within the Süper Lig with Fenerbahce the place they completed second this season and simply yesterday the Istanbul-based membership won the Turkish League Cup.

The Nigeria worldwide has a wealth of experience on the proper flank – whether or not that be proper midfield, right-back or proper wing – providing large flexibility in positioning which could possibly be massively helpful to the subsequent Leeds supervisor when establishing his workforce over a really lengthy Championship marketing campaign and making certain there may be sufficient depth in key positions.

Not solely that, the 25-year-old whiz – who has a reported price ticket of €10m (£9m) – could possibly be the perfect inheritor for Luke Ayling if he can step into the 31-year-old’s sneakers comfortably within the deeper right-sided place.

A necessity for a long-term substitute for Ayling is an actual precedence because the Englishman “just isn’t good enough” – in keeping with journalist Tomi Oladipo – with the previous Bristol Metropolis dud having recorded a mean match score of simply 6.60 in 2022/23, in keeping with Sofascore, rating him twentieth among the many present Leeds squad.

Over 23 league appearances, Osayi-Samuel – in contrast – has proven glimpses of his expertise, regardless of restricted sport time, with an 85% cross completion charge and nearly all of his duels received (51%), in addition to averaging 39.4 touches and 20.2 correct passes per sport.

Earlier than heading to Turkey, the Nigerian was the topic of excessive praise from his former QPR supervisor Mark Warburton, who highlighted a few of the participant’s belongings following a powerful efficiency towards Cardiff Metropolis:

“He was excellent. He is received that sheer tempo which terrifies defenders and when he makes use of it correctly like he did right this moment he appears to be like an actual handful.”

With that being stated, a possibility to return to England will certainly be a beautiful prospect for Osayi-Samuel and if Leeds can safe an inexpensive deal this summer season there isn’t a cause why he could possibly be a invaluable squad member subsequent season, offering competitors for Ayling subsequent season and probably creating into his successor.