Leeds United are said to have another striker target – Middlesbrough’s Britt Assombalonga.
Several Leeds United fans have given the same emphatic response to reports linking the Whites with the Middlesbrough striker Britt Assombalonga.
According to The Daily Mirror, Leeds’ striker search has turned to Assombalonga after moves for Che Adams and Andre Gray, the respective Southampton and Watford players, failed to materialise.
The DR Congo international has scored 37 goals in 114 games for Boro, after prolific spells at Nottingham Forest, Peterborough United and Southend United.
But only six of those strikes have arrived this season, of which he has spent the past six weeks out injured.
And the following Leeds supporters are less than enthused by the prospect of Assombalonga arriving at Elland Road…
Should Leeds’ alleged Assombalonga pursuit prove successful, it would not be the first time that they have lured a former Middlesbrough employee.
The 27-year-old – for whom, according to Transfermarkt, Middlesbrough paid £15.4 million – would join his former Riverside teammates Adam Forshaw, Jack Harrison and Patrick Bamford in West Yorkshire.
Leeds’ director of football Victor Orta is also ex-Middlesbrough, though neither Assombalonga nor Harrison signed for the Smoggies under the Spaniard’s watch.
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