Report offers hope to Leeds United, Aston Villa and other Championship clubs in pursuit of Liverpool’s Ryan Kent

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Leeds United and Aston Villa are the among clubs linked with a move for the Liverpool winger.

There could be hope yet for Leeds United, Aston Villa and several other Championship clubs in their pursuit of Liverpool winger Ryan Kent.

The Liverpool Echo reports that Kent has offers from home and abroad, having impressed on loan to Barnsley last season.

Liverpool’s Ryan Kent

And a move to one of those suitors, Hannover 96, looked to be on the cards on Sunday, after the player posted on Twitter the phrase: “I cannot wait” in German, before deleting it.

But according to The Liverpool Echo, Reds boss Jurgen Klopp is still to decide on whether to sanction a loan move for Kent, and is “weighing up whether he would benefit more from being on the fringes of the first-team squad”, or playing regularly elsewhere.

The Birmingham Mail reported earlier this month that Aston Villa were leading the race to land the 20-year-old, ahead of Leeds and Middlesbrough.

Villa could be without winger Jack Grealish until February, although they have since recruited Tottenham Hotspur’s Josh Onomah, who can play either centrally or out wide, while Andre Green, Albert Adomah and Ahmed Elmohamady are all naturals in Kent’s position.

Aston Villa’s Jack Grealish

Leeds are also fairly well stocked in that department, having added Ezgjan Alioski and Samuel Saiz to their existing pool of Hadi Sacko, Pablo Hernandez and Stuart Dallas this summer.

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