A player who reportedly ‘ignored’ Leeds United’s interest in the summer transfer window will now face competition for his international place from a Whites academy player.
Nohan Kenneh was called into England’s Under-20s squad for the very first time on Monday, two months shy of his 18th birthday.
And among his new teammates is the Manchester City midfielder Tommy Doyle, on whom the Manchester Evening News claimed Leeds were keen.
But Doyle is said to have wanted to stay at City – his boyhood club and that of his grandfathers Mike Doyle and Glyn Pardoe – and subsequently signed a new contract.
The Mancunian is more than a year older than Kenneh and has already appeared on four occasions for the Citizens – four more than the Liberia-born player has for Leeds.
In fact, Kenneh has only recently become a regular feature in the Whites’ Under-23s.
And while it is unlikely he will walk straight into Lee Carsley’s U20 side, the fact that he could be involved at all, competing with players like Doyle, should give Leeds food for thought going forward.
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