Leeds United winger Jack Harrison is attracting growing curiosity forward of the summer time switch window.
What’s the speak?
That’s based on a report by the Daily Mail, who declare that each Antonio Conte’s Tottenham Hotspur and Eddie Howe’s Newcastle United are lining up strikes for the 25-year-old within the low season.
Earlier reports had revealed that Spurs sporting director Fabio Paratici went so far as to submit an enquiry relating to a deal for the left-winger again within the January switch window, with Conte believed to be an enormous fan of the previous England U21 worldwide because of his capability to play each at left wing-back and in a entrance three.
Neglect Raphinha
Whereas it’s true that Harrison didn’t benefit from the finest campaign of his profession this day out – one thing that may fairly simply be stated concerning the vast majority of the Leeds first crew – the argument that cashing in on him this summer time could be a catastrophe for Andrea Radrizzani is nonetheless a simple one to make.
Do you suppose promoting Harrison could be a catastrophe for Leeds?
Certainly, regardless of averaging a disappointing SofaScore match ranking of 6.67 over his 35 Premier League appearances this time period, the £20m signing nonetheless managed to search out the again of the web eight occasions, supplied one help and created three massive probabilities for his teammates, in addition to taking a mean of 1.2 photographs, making 1.2 key passes and finishing 1.5 dribbles per sport.
Moreover, the £60k-per-week winger who Frank Lampard dubbed “one of the best” (Sky Sports activities Information, 17:25, February 12, 2022) extremely impressed in a defensive capability, with FBref rating the 25-year-old within the prime 7% of attacking midfielders and wingers in Europe’s massive 5 leagues for clearances per 90, along with the highest 13% for blocks, the highest 18% for each interceptions and tackles and the highest 22% for pressures over the past three hundred and sixty five days.
As such, whereas Leeds will definitely be hit by the probably departure of Raphinha this summer time – with the Brazilian reported to have already agreed private phrases forward of a change to Barcelona – it’s clear from his statistics that the additional lack of Harrison would additionally come as a gutting blow to Jesse Marsch and his facet, main us to imagine that Radrizzani merely should refuse any strategy made by Tottenham or Newcastle for the previous Manchester Metropolis starlet forward of 2022/23.
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