Phil Hay not happy after “kick in the teeth” at ER

The departure of Leeds United defender Maximilian Wober on mortgage this summer season is “the primary actual kick within the tooth” for followers this window, claims journalist Phil Hay.

Is Maximilian Wober leaving Leeds United this summer season?

The previous couple of months have been undeniably robust for each Leeds and their followers. Not solely have the membership needed to take care of a final-day relegation again from the Premier League – a league they spent 16 years attempting to achieve – however they’ve additionally seen a flood of gamers abandon the crew within the aftermath.

To this point, the membership have seen eight gamers go away Yorkshire, together with their leading goalscorer for final season, Rodrigo, and three first-team gamers they solely signed final season.

The quantity may quickly be 9, although, as Austrian worldwide Wober is trying more and more like he will probably be becoming a member of Bundesliga aspect Borussia Monchengladbach within the coming days as a deal between the edges is ‘shut’, per The Athletic.

Akin to a number of of his Leeds teammates, the 25-year-old solely joined the aspect final season, shifting from Austrian outfit Pink Bull Salzburg in a deal that value the Whites a reported £11m.

This determination to mortgage out one other of the crew’s first crew gamers, particularly one which has solely not too long ago joined, has upset the followers, together with journalist Phil Hay.

He defined his emotions on The Sq. Ball YouTube channel, saying:

“Wober appears to me to be the primary actual kick within the tooth when it comes to departures from Leeds.

“I believe the opposite gamers who’ve gone, and there may be clearly this difficulty in regards to the loans and I believe sooner or later the membership are going to have to clarify, you realize, on the document about how that is working and what the upside is.”

How good is Maximilian Wober?

Sadly for Leeds followers, Wober appears to be like to be a fairly good participant and one they may definitely make good use of within the second tier subsequent season.

Regardless of final season being an unmitigated catastrophe for the Yorkshire membership, the Vienna-born defender got here out comparatively unscathed, incomes himself a mean score of 6.63 throughout his 16 Premier League video games, which, contemplating the crew round him, is sort of spectacular,

His underlying numbers are surprisingly spectacular and counsel that he may thrive inside the suitable setup.

In accordance with FBref, who examine gamers in the same place throughout Europe’s high 5 leagues, the 25-year-old sits within the 1% for anticipated assists and blocks, the highest 4% for progressive passes obtained, the highest 9% for touches within the opposition penalty space, the highest 13% for assists, the highest 15% for shot-creating actions and tackles, the highest 17% for progressive carries and interceptions, all per 90.

He definitely impressed former supervisor Jesse Marsch who, earlier than the Austrian had kicked a ball for Leeds, said:

“Effectively, the one factor I find out about Max is he is a pacesetter. He’s a really clever participant and he is gifted. In that sense, he can play a number of positions.”

It is an unlucky state of affairs for Leeds, and Hay’s evaluation feels depressingly correct. Hopefully, the 49ers can discover a appropriate alternative in what’s left of the summer season switch window.