Leeds United are reportedly unlikely to sign Abel Hernandez due to finances.
Abel Hernandez’s prospective move to Leeds United is unlikely to materialise as a result of finances, The Yorkshire Evening Post has claimed.
The report states that Leeds are struggling to come up with the “financial package” needed to sign the Uruguayan free agent, who left Hull City on a Bosman this summer.
Such a development might well frustrate the Whites’ head coach Marcelo Bielsa who, according to The Mirror, wanted the South American hitman at Elland Road.
As a result, this might be the first reality check that the Argentine has experienced since his shock appointment last month – and probably won’t be the last.
Bielsa, a former Athletic Bilbao, Marseille, Argentina and Chile boss, is 62, so this isn’t his first rodeo and he is very likely to have experienced the disappointment of missing transfer targets before.
But has he ever been in a position where someone of Abel Hernandez’s modest profile has been considered too expensive?
The 27-year-old forward, who only managed eight goals in 49 Premier League outings for Hull, is hardly a superstar in the grand scheme of things, and yet Leeds’ reported inability to afford him ought to remind Bielsa that he has taken on a very difficult job.
Bielsa might be a renowned football manager, and he might have joined a massive club, but assembling a team capable of winning promotion to the Premier League remains a major challenge and missing out on Hernandez is bound to help Bielsa realise that, if he didn’t know already.
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