Leeds United signed the Spanish goalkeeper in January.
Neil Sullivan has told the LS11 podcast on YouTube that he’s been impressed by seeing Leeds United goalkeeper Kiko Casilla in training.
Casilla, who won three Champions League titles with Real Madrid, joined Leeds in January and has since displaced Bailey Peacock-Farrell as Marcelo Bielsa’s number one.
Sullivan, a goalkeeping coach in the Whites’ academy, started working with Peacock-Farrell since he was 16.
But the former Wimbledon and Spurs stopper, who also had three years at Elland Road, admits that his protege’s rival looks the business in training.
He told the LS11 podcast on YouTube, when asked about competition between Peacock-Farrell and Casilla: “It’s a difficult one. The manager wants experience so that’s what he went for.”
Sullivan added, sarcastically: “He’s not bad you know, let me tell you. I’ve not worked with him as much as I’ve worked with the others, but when you see him he’s not bad. He’s alright.”
Casilla has been a fantastic signing and considering his pedigree, Leeds won’t have to sign a new goalkeeper if they win promotion to the Premier League.
Plus, he’s only 32 and therefore has a lot more years left in the tank.
With Peacock-Farrell – a Northern Ireland international – only being 22, it looks like goalkeeper is the last position that Bielsa will need to strengthen this summer, whatever happens.
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