Leeds United Transfer News: De Ketelaere breakthrough? Mata & Tymon latest

Stoke’s Josh Tymon to end Leeds’ left-back woes?

Junior Firpo’s arrival from Barcelona ahead of the 2021/22 season was met with excitement initially but the Spanish youth international failed to substantiate the anticipation generated by his signing.

Not helped by the system he was housed in, Firpo struggled with the physicality of the Premier League and often appeared ill-equipped in a defensive sense.

Taking this into account, reinforcements at left-back were always going to be an area of focus for Jesse Marsch and Leeds United heading into the summer transfer window. The need to do so has risen, however, with Firpo suffering an injury setback.

"“He’s most likely out eight weeks,” Marsch explained regarding Firpo before going into detail around the need to strengthen his options at left-back. “We’re hopeful that it’s a little bit faster because Junior healed really, really quickly last time after the MCL injury. We’re looking very closely at Leif Davis and we think he’s done really well.  We have also other solutions, like Pascal and potentially Jack [Harrison]. But in the whole process, we were always evaluating what we would need at that position. So obviously this highlights that a little bit more clearly. And we have time, we have time. “When it comes to recruitment, I believe that Victor Orta and Gabi Ruiz do an incredible job of looking around the world and understanding what the demands are of the style of football that the manager wants to play and then providing really good possibilities as to what those players could be and what fits could be. So yeah, I mean, we’ve had those discussions.” Via: Yorkshire Post"

According to Mail Sport, Leeds are considering left-back Josh Tymon who has impressed since rising through the ranks at Hull before joining Stoke City aged 18.