The Leeds United loanee hasn’t been going from strength to strength in recent weeks.
All signs pointed to a brilliant season at Leeds United for Jack Harrison.
The 22-year-old winger enjoyed a strong last couple of months of the 2018-19 campaign and carried that promise into pre-season with some glittering displays.
Harrison, who re-signed for Leeds on loan from Manchester City this past summer, was also looking like a fine player earlier this season, scoring in the 3-1 win at Bristol City on the opening day.
But just like last year, the City product is going off the boil again in a big way and Marcelo Bielsa has to get him back on song.
Harrison was one of the Whites’ poorer players on Saturday as Bielsa’s side lost 1-0 at Charlton Athletic.
Helder Costa wasn’t much better on the opposite wing, but it’s a bit more disappointing from Harrison given how much he has played this season.
He has started all nine of Leeds’ Championship games this season, eight more than Costa who made his full league debut at The Valley yesterday. Logically he must be the sharper of the two players, but there wasn’t much evidence of that in London.
It looked for all the world that Harrison – subbed at half-time against Barnsley earlier this month – was finally taking big strides under Bielsa, but he has been going backwards from that in recent weeks and his ongoing inconsistency makes a mockery of the £20 million price-tag that City hung on him during the summer [The Sun].
The talent is there – that much is obvious – but the consistency isn’t and until it is, Harrison probably shouldn’t be guaranteed to start every single week, which he presently is.
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