Gabby Agbonlahor targets Leeds United hero for summer outing, English club failed with latest offer for white attacker Yorkshire News

Speaking exclusively to the Yorkshire Evening Post, he said: “It was a strange summer. To be honest, I feel like this summer was more reflected in the Covid crisis than the [last] one because perhaps in the last one we still had the expectation that in a moment the fans would return [but fans did not return in full at all last season].

“Now there are still fears around the world about the negative aspects of that, so it was a bit of a conservative summer, not just in England, all over the world. The different crises, the television crisis in France, the situation in Spain with the salary caps, people tried more to get players that they didn’t need than players that they needed.

“When you analyze the big, big movements, with Messi, Sergio Ramos, there’s like a domino situation.”

Leeds benefited from the domino effect, with Cristiano Ronaldo’s return to Old Trafford pushing Dan James towards an otherwise unlikely exit all summer long.

In a conservative market, despite having few planned first-team additions, Leeds still had to work hard to do business that met Bielsa’s current hiring policy, budget and expectations.

“Once again, our line was to achieve quality, not quantity and be creative to strengthen the team,” Orta told the YEP.

“We spent a lot of time working together with Marcelo and his staff.

“The left-back situation was a problem from the start of the market and we were very happy to fix it quickly and allow Junior to start a proper preseason with our style of football. The winger situation, we were trying to get the name, not trying to get a player for the sake of a player. The reason it was perhaps more delayed is because we were trying to get the name, the player that we really wanted, so we didn’t have to rank him at the beginning of the market. The goalkeeper’s situation was resolved more or less in parallel, the negotiations with the loan to Elche and I have to feel proud of having been the first team to pass an exceptional panel in England with Kristoffer ”.

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