Leeds must sign Ben Brereton Diaz

Leeds United averted relegation again all the way down to the Championship by the pores and skin of their enamel as they achieved survival within the 2021/22 marketing campaign.

The Whites sacked Marcelo Bielsa and introduced in American head coach Jesse Marsch to make them security as they completed three factors away from the underside three.

A constant difficulty for the membership all through the season was their struggles in entrance of purpose as they ended on 42 objectives in 38 Premier League matches.

Raphinha, who has since left to hitch Barcelona, was the only player who reached double figures for objectives and certainly one of three attackers with more than four strikes.

Leeds felt the influence of Patrick Bamford’s absence as harm issues left him out of motion for almost all of the marketing campaign – beginning seven matches in whole.

This got here after he produced an distinctive 17 objectives and seven assists in 38 outings the yr earlier than that, having scored 16 objectives within the Championship in 2019/20.

Victor Orta should now land the membership their subsequent Bamford by securing a deal to signal Ben Brereton Diaz from Blackburn this summer time, with the Whites reportedly thinking about £20m attacker.

Jaquob Crooke as soon as labelled him a “superstar” and his former supervisor – Tony Mowbray – beforehand heaped reward on his expertise, saying:

“You noticed what I noticed immediately; Brereton with the ball at his toes is a rare expertise. He’s a beautiful footballer who can dribble with each toes, take folks out of the sport.

“Sure they wish to see you dribble, rating and shoot, however they wish to see you struggle. He has to be taught that, however he nonetheless is just 20. He’s nonetheless a boy, however he has great skill and great expertise.”

The Chile worldwide loved a incredible season within the Championship with Rovers as he plundered 22 objectives and three assists in 34 begins, while additionally scoring three objectives in seven video games for his nation in 2022.

He has proven that he could be a prolific scorer within the second tier, identical to Bamford was for Leeds, and now deserves the prospect to point out what he can do within the top-flight.

On the age of 23, he’s nonetheless creating as a participant and, due to this fact, has the potential to make the step as much as the Premier League as he has time on his hand to hone his expertise and develop into an entire centre-forward.

Orta should now signal the Blackburn star to be the membership’s subsequent Bamford within the hope that he can carry his goalscoring type over to a better division and be the constant scorer that they lacked final time period.

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