The Leeds United new boy did not feature against Nottingham Forest.
Marcelo Bielsa has revealed that he doesn’t know if new signing Eddie Nketiah will make his Leeds United debut on Tuesday.
The Whites pulled off an exciting deadline-day deal to sign the Arsenal gem on a season-long loan.
But Bielsa prompted a bit of confusion by not including him in the squad for Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Nottingham Forest at Elland Road.
Nketiah has had a full pre-season with the Gunners and went on their pre-season tour, but he hasn’t trained under the Argentine yet and Bielsa indicated that was the reason for his absence today.
However, the United boss added that he could make his debut against Salford in the League Cup next week – but refused to commit to it.
He said to Leeds Live: “Maybe he plays on Tuesday. He didn’t do any training with the team until now. I prefer to wait a little bit to say if he’s going to play on Tuesday.”
Bielsa could also only name five loanees in his matchday squad and these were allocated to Ben White, Jack Harrison, Helder Costa, Jack Clarke and new goalkeeper Illan Meslier.
Nketiah could be a game-changer for Bielsa and he certainly needed one of those today.
Pablo Hernandez fired Leeds ahead against Forest on the hour mark, but Lewis Grabban equalised with 12 minutes to go.
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