The Leeds United winger was loaned to Charlton Athletic in August.
Leeds United forward Kemar Roofe believes the Whites’ most skilful player is not even at the club.
According to Roofe, who was speaking in this week’s Football League Paper, that title belongs to winger Jordan Botaka.
And the DR Congo international must have made quite an impression on Roofe, having been loaned to Charlton Athletic barely a month after his teammate’s arrival from Oxford United in July.
“He’s on loan at Charlton at the moment. but Jordan Botaka is very, very skilful,” said Roofe when asked by the Football League Paper. “He isn’t a show-off, though. It’s just his natural game to do tricks. He just seems to do whatever comes into his head.”
Leeds paid Dutch side Exelsior Rotterdam £574,000 to sign Botaka in 2015 (Transfermarkt reports), however, the 23-year-old played just 14 times for the Whites last season.
Having failed to feature under new head coach Garry Monk, Botaka was loaned to Charlton in August for the rest of the campaign, at which point his Elland Road contract is due to expire.
However, the former Netherlands Under-19 international has had about as much luck at the Valley, making nine appearances amounting to just 106 minutes of football.
On the bright side, though, he did make a cameo appearance on Channel 4’s Come Dine With Me earlier this year.
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