Leeds United youngster is making big impression on loan.
Leeds United attacker Mallik Wilks’ season on loan at Doncaster keeps on getting better and better.
The 20-year-old has been prolific and has just been nominated for the Football League’s PFA Player of the Month.
Wilks has scored 13 goals this season already and has seven assists.
Three of his goals have come in his last five games.
Doncaster boss Grant McCann has hailed Wilks’ recent improvement and backed him for future success.
He told the Doncaster Free Press: “I think he’s got stronger. He’s got more belief in himself. He started the season well but then we’d get maybe one or two good games out of him or he’d be not so good and then come back again.
“It was like that for a long time but now he has started to perform at a consistent level.”
McCann says he believes Wilks can get even better, and says he is close to being Championship standard.
Wilks’ goals have fired Doncaster into the play-offs, currently sitting sixth in League One.
McCann has not given up on having Wilks again next season, if they can win promotion.
He said: “This is what I expected we would get from him but I think he can be better. The lad has got everything to play in the Championship, whether that’s with Leeds, us or somebody else. He’s got all the attributes.”
If Leeds can win promotion to the Premier League, and Doncaster reach the Championship, then Wilks could well end up back at Rovers next season.
However Leeds might be keen to fast track him even if they reach the top flight, and few could blame them.
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