Leeds United know that there’s loads of work for them to do in the summertime switch window to construct a squad that’s able to avoiding an instantaneous relegation from the Premier League.
One participant the Whites must be trying to change as a starter, heading into the 2025/26 marketing campaign, is attacking midfielder Brenden Aaronson.
The USA worldwide didn’t do sufficient within the Championship to recommend that he has the standard to make the step as much as the top-flight as a daily starter subsequent time period, as evidenced by his type in opposition to the opposite 5 groups that completed within the prime six.
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Type in opposition to the highest six |
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|---|---|---|
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Brenden Aaronson vs |
Objectives |
Assists |
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Bristol Metropolis (A) |
0 |
0 |
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Burnley (H) |
0 |
0 |
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Sunderland (A) |
0 |
0 |
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Sheffield United (H) |
0 |
0 |
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Coventry (H) |
0 |
0 |
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Coventry (A) |
0 |
0 |
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Burnley (A) |
0 |
0 |
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Sunderland (H) |
0 |
0 |
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Sheffield United (A) |
0 |
0 |
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Bristol Metropolis (H) |
0 |
0 |
As you may see within the desk above, Aaronson didn’t ship a single objective or help in opposition to the highest groups in ten appearances for the Whites.
The American flop additionally scored one objective in 36 video games within the Premier League throughout the 2022/23 marketing campaign for Leeds, and his type final time period doesn’t recommend that he’s more likely to fare a lot better.
Leeds are nonetheless in search of their subsequent Pablo Hernandez
The final time the West Yorkshire outfit had been promoted to the top-flight, Pablo Hernandez was the chief creator for Marcelo Bielsa, both enjoying as a quantity ten or as a winger on the proper flank.
Throughout the 2019/20 promotion-winning season, the Spanish playmaker produced 9 targets and 9 assists in 36 appearances within the second tier, serving to the Whites on their approach to the title along with his capacity to each rating and help targets on the prime finish of the pitch.
He additionally created 13 ‘massive possibilities’ and delivered 2.3 key passes per sport on common within the Championship, which reveals that he was always trying to unlock opposition defences along with his inventive high quality by creating possibilities at an distinctive charge.
That type got here after the mercurial playmaker produced 12 targets and 12 assists, with 16 ‘massive possibilities’ created, in 39 appearances within the Championship throughout Bielsa’s first season in cost at Elland Highway. This reveals that he constantly offered an enormous menace as each a scorer and a creator of targets from an attacking midfield place.
Leeds are nonetheless in search of their subsequent model of Hernandez. Some could level to Georginio Rutter, who delivered 15 league assists within the 2023/24 marketing campaign, however the French attacker solely scored seven targets, as he did not constantly carry out as a scoring menace.
Daniel Farke, nevertheless, may discover the membership’s new playmaking celebrity by swooping to signal one of many stars of his Norwich Metropolis group within the upcoming summer season switch window.
Leeds eyeing transfer for Premier League star
Based on journalist Ben Jacobs, Leeds United stay considering a deal to signal Aston Villa attacking midfielder Emiliano Buendia forward of the 2025/26 marketing campaign.
The reporter claims that the Championship champions are “nonetheless eager” on the Argentina worldwide, following on from their curiosity in him at the beginning of the 12 months.
Jacobs additionally notes that Sheffield United playmaker Gustavo Hamer can also be a goal for the Whites after the Blades misplaced to Sunderland within the play-off last at Wembley final weekend.
Leeds had been reportedly considering a deal to signal Buendia on mortgage from Aston Villa throughout the January switch window, with an choice or obligation to purchase, however he ended up becoming a member of Bayer Leverkusen on mortgage for the second half of the season.
The Argentine ace, who labored with Farke at Norwich, has now returned to England after the conclusion of the Bundesliga season, and may very well be accessible to snap up this summer season with an alleged valuation proper now of £15m.
Why Leeds ought to signal Emi Buendia
The Whites ought to push to convey the Villans outcast to Elland Highway this summer season as a result of he may very well be an improve on Aaronson in addition to being the membership’s new Hernandez.
Buendia missed the 2023/24 marketing campaign with an ACL harm and struggled for sport time, enjoying 89 minutes, within the Premier League within the first half of this season earlier than his mortgage transfer to Leverkusen.
The 28-year-old magician confirmed indicators of promise in his mortgage spell with Leverkusen, although, as he delivered two targets and two ‘massive possibilities’ created in 11 appearances and three begins within the Bundesliga, scoring greater than Aaronson did in a whole top-flight season for Leeds.
Buendia, who produced 9 targets and eight assists in his first two Premier League seasons with Villa, seems to be on his means again to his greatest, and Farke may very well be the proper coach for him to revive his profession, given what they achieved collectively at Carrow Highway.
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Emi Buendia (Championship) |
18/19 |
20/21 |
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Appearances |
38 |
39 |
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Objectives |
8 |
15 |
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Massive possibilities created |
7 |
18 |
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Key passes per sport |
2.4 |
3.1 |
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Assists |
12 |
16 |
As you may see within the desk above, the Argentine ace was notably efficient within the 2020/21 marketing campaign, a lot in order that journalist Connor Southwell described his type as “exceptional”.
The identical reporter hailed Buendia as a “pleasure to observe” for the Canaries. That declare is backed up by each his statistics, with 31 targets and assists mixed in that second Championship season, and his highlights from his time working with Farke.
As you may see within the clips above, the Leeds goal was able to the spectacular, as a scorer and a creator of targets, while enjoying for Farke as a right-sided attacker who drifted infield to affect video games from a central place.
Like Hernandez, Buendia is equally able to enjoying as a quantity ten or as an attacking midfielder on the proper flank, drifting inside, and he may change Aaronson because the central member of the entrance 4.
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The Villa attacker is a confirmed Premier League performer, as proven by his aforementioned statistics in his first two years within the division with the Villans, who has additionally confirmed himself to be a celebrity in a Farke group, which is why Leeds ought to signal him this summer season.
