Leeds: Orta interested in Pirie

Leeds United are excited by a deal to convey Lewis Pirie to Elland Highway.

What’s the speak?

That’s in accordance with a latest report by the Daily Record, who declare that every one of Leeds, Brighton & Hove Albion and Fulham are preserving a detailed eye on the Aberdeen ahead forward of launching a possible transfer for the 15-year-old additional down the road.

The report goes on to state each the Whites and the Cottagers watched the striker in motion for Scotland U16s’ 4-2 victory over Denmark – a fixture by which {the teenager} scored twice – earlier this month, whereas the Seagulls are additionally believed to have taken a take a look at the attacker in motion for Aberdeen final week.

Lastly, it’s claimed that Championship aspect Sheffield United are additionally within the Scottish sensation, whereas the Dons are considered extraordinarily desperate to tie the teenager all the way down to skilled phrases on his sixteenth birthday in January subsequent yr.

Orta’s subsequent Perkins

Whereas it’s true that Pirie remains to be an extremely younger expertise, contemplating how a lot curiosity there seems to be within the 15-year-old’s signing, ought to Orta handle to get a deal over the road for the participant who DD Superior Teaching dubbed “unreal” forward of the likes of Brighton, Fulham and Sheffield United, the Spaniard may properly have unearthed his subsequent Sonny Perkins.

Certainly, having arrived on a free transfer this summer season, the previous West Ham United centre-forward has been in sensational type for the Whites’ U21 aspect, having already bagged six targets in simply 5 Premier League 2 appearances for Michael Skubala’s youth group – returns that noticed the 18-year-old win the division’s Player of the Month award in August.

And, with the intention to seal the England U19 worldwide’s signature again in July, the Whites’ director of soccer needed to combat off the curiosity of numerous Leeds’ Premier League rivals, together with golf equipment equivalent to Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa.

As such, whereas Pirie appears to have slightly option to go earlier than he’s attaining the returns of a participant who has already made his Premier League and Europa League debuts, contemplating the sheer quantity of pleasure surrounding the 15-year-old’s potential, the Aberdeen starlet may properly show to turn out to be Orta’s subsequent Perkins-esque discovery in youth soccer – a prospect that’s certain to thrill everybody concerned with the Elland Highway membership.