Championship giants Leeds United could make Serie B midfielder Leo Stulac their first new addition at Elland Road this summer.
Victor Orta was supposed to have learned his lesson.
Leeds United’s director of football has found himself at the centre of a storm in recent months after a series of cheap, imported signings flopped quite spectacularly at Elland Road. Fans made it clear that they wanted more proven, Championship talents and less Laurens de Bocks and Jay-Roy Grots.
And reports in the Yorkshire Evening Post that Orta was trying to bring in the Barnsley captain Andy Yiadom as well as Swansea City’s Kyle Bartley, the towering defender who shone during a loan spell in Leeds in 2016/17, suggested that a corner had been turned.
But suggestions that Leeds are chasing an unknown free-agent midfielder from the second division of Italian football appears to have put Orta right back to square one on the eyes of some supporters.
Understandably, this has not gone down too well with fans who want to see a bit more ambition and, most of all, less unknown imports.
Others, however, point out the fact that Stulac has posted an impressive six goals and four assists in 2017/18. And he is wanted by Serie A outfit Genoa too, so he must have some talent.
Then again, this is not exactly a statement signing to kick off Leeds’ transfer window.
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