Ezgjan Alioski is really struggling for Leeds United this season.
Tony Dorigo has suggested on LUTV that Leeds United boss Marcelo Bielsa should drop Ezgjan Alioski.
The Macedonia international has been taken off at half-time in each of Leeds’ last two games, replaced by 18-year-old Jack Clarke in each match.
In fact, it was Clarke who set up the Whites’ dramatic winner on Saturday as Bielsa’s side beat Sheffield United 1-0 to move top of the Championship temporarily.
Alioski hasn’t scored for Leeds since September and hasn’t even set one up since October 6 – the equivalent of eight Championship games.
For an attacking player, the 26-year-old isn’t pulling his weight in that regard and United legend Dorigo says he needs to improve his end product.
He told LUTV, when asked about Clarke: “He is [getting close to being started] because Gianni Alioski I don’t think is producing the end result, the end product that we want.
“He works very hard, gets in good positions but it’s that last third bit. I’m not seeing enough of it [end product].”
On his day, Alioski, a £2 million signing [Yorkshire Evening Post] in 2017, is as influential as anybody in a Leeds shirt, but he hasn’t had ‘his day’ in quite a while now and surely the Argentine coach must be tempted to axe him.
Leeds host QPR on Saturday and despite Alioski’s form, it would be a surprise if Bielsa dropped him.
The Whites boss very clearly rates him, hence why he’s in the first XI every single week without fail, but it’ll be very interesting if Clarke started at Elland Road.
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