Leeds United won’t be signing Emre Tezgel after the Stoke City teenager decided to sign a new contract with the Potters.
Whites fans want to see first-team additions this summer and have been treated to three already in Brenden Aaronson, Rasmus Kristensen and Marc Roca.
There will of course be more senior players to come but Leeds also love recruiting young talent.
This has been a key focus for Victor Orta ever since his arrival at Leeds in 2017, snapping up teenagers from around the world.
Joe Gelhardt, Pascal Struijk, Sam Greenwood and Lewis Bate are some of the standout players to have arrived thanks to this strategy.
Leeds United won’t be signing Emre Tezgel
Leeds continue to be linked with talented youngsters like George Hall and Sonny Perkins, suggesting Orta won’t be moving away from signing teenagers.
The Stoke Sentinel now report that Leeds showed ‘significant interest’ in signing Stoke City talent Emre Tezgel.
Tezgel, 16, is an incredibly exciting young striker who is featuring for England’s Under-17’s.
Tezgel has six goals in six cpas for his country whilst his Under-18 Premier League form last season was ridiculous; 12 goals in nine games.
That meant Tezgel ended up playing in Premier League, and even though he was playing well above his age range, he still bagged four goals in 11 games.
There are high hopes for Tezgel in the years to come and Leeds clearly thought that he was worth bringing to Elland Road.
However, Tezgel stunned Leeds by instead agreeing a three-year professional deal with Stoke, which will kick in when he turns 17 in September.
Having been on the Stoke books since he was nine, Tezgel now wants to become a first-team star for Stoke and he already has senior minutes under his belt.
Stoke boss Michael O’Neill is buzzing with the news, admitting that he thinks Tezgel has ‘immense potential’, something Stoke are looking to unlock in the years to come.
Leeds may keep tabs on Tezgel moving forward, but they will be no summer deal for the teenage goal machine.
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