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Good Morning. It's Friday 4th November, and here are the latest headlines from Elland Road
Marsch could raid former club for Swiss star striker
Red Bull Salzburg have slapped a €35m price tag on striker Noah Okafor after interest from a host of clubs including Leeds Utd. The versatile 22yo joined the Austrian Champions in the 2020 January transfer window, where he soon became a fan's favourite. In 21 Austrian Bundesliga games last season, the 22-year-old found the back of the net nine times, and contributed nine assists.
Across 26 appearances in all competitions this season, he has already netted 11 times, with one assist. AC Milan, Inter Milan and Borussia Dortmund have also been credited with an interest in the Swiss International.
It may be a little ambitious for Salzburg to ask for so much. Okafor only signed a four-year deal meaning his contract expires in little over a year but when it comes to transfers, they are the masters. Since 2016, Salzburg have sold players worth 493 million euros.
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World Cup heartache for Sinisterra
Luis Siniterra will be sidelined for the rest of the year, and will miss the World Cup, after it was revealed that his sprain was more serious than first thought. It was expected that the Columbian International would be eased back into action this week, and hopefully be fit enough to play against Bournemouth at the weekend, but a further scan showed a lisfranc injury (a fracture-dislocation to the midfoot joint).
This will at least give Crysencio Summerville an opportunity to impress, though because of the World Cup, there are only four games (and an FA Cup third round match at Molyneux next week) between now and the New Year.
According to Marsch "The only other update is Luis Sinisterra. Luis has a foot injury that it turns out to be more than what we initially originally thought it was. He wasn't making the progress that we were hoping for him to make over the last 10 days. So they did another scan and then they had a specialist looked at it, and they start to worry about it being a Lisfranc injury."
“It’s a rare injury that controls the movement of the metatarsals and when that is ruptured, it can be a long recovery. We don't believe it's ruptured. We believe it's partially torn, which puts him in a little bit of a grey area, but probably out until after the World Cup break. So we'll know more about that today. And again, we're hopeful that it's a version that doesn't take off for long.”
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Gnonto's work ethic rubbing off on Summerville
It's fair to say that Leeds fans were bitterly disappointed, that having missed out on Terrier, de ketelaere and Gakpo; Orta turns up on Deadline Day with a little known 18yo Italian kid called Wilfred Gnonto. Not only had we not heard of him, but with a fee totalling just under 5m, surely he couldn't be any good.
Fast-forward the clock three months, and Gnonto is already starting to make waves. He's earned rave reviews from U21 Coach Michael Scubala, broken into the first team squad, and now it has been revealed that his professionalism /work ethic are even rubbing off on Crysencio Summerville.
It has been suggested that Jesse Marsch has had to keep the Dutchman on a short leash in the past, to keep him on the straight and narrow. The two (Gnonto and Summerville) have built up a close friendship both on and off the field. This has had a positive effect on Summerville on the training ground, and it seems his hard work is now paying off.
Talking at yesterday's press conference, Marsch stated:- “I talked after the game against Liverpool that a big factor for [Summerville] is discipline and professionalism and work-ethic. I’ve been on top of him again this week to make sure that he has a very good training week. And he has. He’s looked really good. And we’re hopeful that he can establish himself more and more,”
“And Willy is in the same vain except that his professionalism and work-ethic and clarity for what this world is is incredibly good. He’s very mature for an 18-year-old. And it’s interesting because Cree and Willy have sparked up a really good friendship. And I think that Willy’s had a really positive affect on Cree.”
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ropped for his attitude. He went on to be Leeds 3rd highest scorer that season behind Joffy and Greenwood who were sharing the No9 and No 10 shirts. Then last season he and Drameh both wanted to go out on loan because they knew they were not going to play much due to first team issues. Bielsa refused Summerville even though 3 German clubs 4 Dutch club and some Championship clubs wanted him. There has since been a few fks thrown into him from Bielsa and then recently by Marsch. I hope can can settle down but he may be in trouble again because Marsch said yesterday he refused to allow Summerville to go home last Saturday night for his birthday Sunday. However there are photos of him at his party in Rotterdam?
