Leeds: Di Domenico drops Okafor update

Leeds United have found how a lot it’s going to price to carry Noah Okafor to Elland Street within the January switch window.

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In a latest interview with Italian radio channel Radio CRC (through Leeds Live), the Pink Bull Salzburg ahead’s agent, Gianluca Di Domenico, revealed that the reported goal of Victor Orta will set the Premier League facet again between €25m (£22m) and €30m (£26m), ought to the Whites want to make a transfer for the 22-year-old within the winter market.

Concerning the way forward for his consumer, the agent mentioned: “Those that have seen the match in opposition to Milan have definitely seen his traits. Do Napoli observe him? There are rumours that they’re following him and that additionally they preferred him in the summertime switch window. Salzburg have offered gamers value €493m since 2016. Okafor will likely be valued between €25-30m.”

“Very good expertise”

Contemplating simply how spectacular Okafor has been for Salzburg in latest campaigns, it’s not obscure why Orta can be enthusiastic about a transfer to carry the attacker to Elland Street this winter.

Certainly, over his 34 appearances in all competitions final season, the £16.2m-rated expertise scored a particularly spectacular 14 targets and registered 11 assists, whereas the 22-year-old has additionally began the 2022/23 marketing campaign in equally effective type.

Over his eight Austrian Bundesliga appearances – of which solely 4 have come as begins – this season, the £4.9k-per-week ahead has already scored 5 targets, supplied one help and created two massive possibilities for his teammates, in addition to taking a median of 1.9 pictures – 0.9 of which have hit the goal – making 1.1 key passes and finishing 1.4 dribbles per recreation.

These metrics have seen the Switzerland worldwide, who can also operate from central and attacking midfield, in addition to on both wing, common a merely sensational SofaScore match score of 7.08, rating him as Salzburg’s ninth-best participant within the high flight of Austrian soccer to this point in 2022/23.

As such, with the 22-year-old, who journalist Josh Bunting dubbed a “superb talent“, evidently being extraordinarily lethal within the ultimate third, in addition to boasting an eye fixed for a defence-splitting go and being able to taking defenders on one vs one, it will seem extraordinarily advisable for Orta to launch a £26m transfer for the striker when January rolls round, as Okafor would undoubtedly characterize an excellent addition to Jesse Marsch’s present attacking arsenal in LS11.