Ryan Edmondson helped Leeds United’s U18s win the Professional Development League – does a first-team debut at Elland Road beckon ?
Leeds United’s much maligned director of football Victor Orta has been criticised relentlessly this season, with the vast majority of the players he brought in last summer struggling to make a positive impression at Elland Road.
But while Jay-Roy Grot, Pawel Cibicki, Caleb Ekuban and others have toiled in the first team, the club’s U18 and U23 squads have been impressively replenished by Spanish talentspotter Orta.
The likes of Sam Dalby, Kun Temenuzhkov and Jordan Stevens have been earning rave reviews since arriving in West Yorkshire – as has Ryan Edmondson.
The teenager completed a move to join his boyhood club from York City back in November on a two-year deal. And he couldn’t have wished for a better first few months as a Leeds player.
Because Leeds’ U18s are celebrating winning the northern section of the Professional Development League, an achievement which had owner Andrea Radrizzani expressing his delight on Twitter.
And he isn’t the only one toasting the success of Leeds’ talented crop of youngsters:
Now, Edmondson has a long way to go before he can even consider forcing his way into Leeds’ first-team plans. But with the likes of Paudie O’Connor, Bailey Peacock-Farrell, Connor Shaughnessy and Tom Pearce – who scored in Saturday’s win against Barnsley – establishing themselves in the senior squad, Edmondson is clearly at the right club to develop his talents.
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