Leeds United have announced that they have signed Josh Galloway from the League Two side.
Carlisle United boss Steven Pressley has admitted to the News and Star that he was disappointed to see Josh Galloway complete a move to Leeds as he wanted to keep the youngster at Brunton Park.
The Whites have today announced on their official website that the 17-year-old has signed scholarship terms with the Championship leaders. He is the second player to make the move from Carlisle to Leeds this summer, with Liam McCarron arriving at Thorp Arch during the transfer window.
Unsurprisingly therefore, Pressley has expressed his frustration after seeing Galloway go, and explained how hard the club had worked to convince the teenager to stay with the League Two side.
“It’s hard to accept, but it’s circumstances of the system to a degree,” he said, as reported by the News and Star. “I spoke with young Josh on two occasions and I told him to speak to his parents on this, and I expressed the fact that I didn’t want him to leave the club. I wanted him to develop here and play football here.
“I thought that was the best line for his development, but he wasn’t in agreement with that.”
While Pressley clearly worked hard to try and convince Galloway to stay, it is arguably not too difficult to see why the midfielder, and McCarron, felt that moving to Leeds was the right move for his career.
There is a lot of competition within the Whites academy, at various age groups, but there is also a pathway to the first-team that has really re-emerged since Marcelo Bielsa arrived at Elland Road last summer.
He has shown a lot of faith in the club’s brightest academy starlets, so the likes of McCarron and Galloway may be eyeing up those chances in the under-23 side in the near future and dreaming about what that could then lead to.
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