Leeds United are reportedly keeping tabs on Fran Sol.
According to Team Talk, Leeds United have their eye on Fran Sol.
The Willem II striker has 12 goals in 16 games for the Dutch side this season and, if true, promotion-chasing Leeds clearly want to boost their hopes of reaching the Premier League.
That is because Marcelo Bielsa already has two very decent strikers in the form of Kemar Roofe and Patrick Bamford, who scored the winner in Saturday’s 1-0 victory at Bolton.
United also have a young and prosperous Tyler Roberts at their disposal, but a move for Sol would make it very difficult for him to succeed at Leeds.
The 19-year-old, who has played 24 minutes for Leeds in nearly two months, is already well behind Roofe and Bamford in the pecking order, but the arrival of Sol would make him the Whites’ fourth-choice striker.
This is a player who cost £4 million last January. Roberts is a long-term investment but even in the long term his first-team prospects aren’t exactly promising.
Roofe and Bamford are both 25, while Sol is only 26. Roberts isn’t behind aging strikers so much as he is behind strikers who haven’t even hit their peak yet.
The Wales international already has a really big fight on his hands, but the addition of Sol would make it markedly harder.
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