Leeds United have signed Sam Dalby from Leyton Orient in the January transfer window.
Leeds United have announced the signing of Sam Dalby on their official website.
The West Yorkshire outfit have announced that they have secured the services of the 18-year-old centre-forward from Leyton Orient on a two-and-a-half-year contract.
It has also been announced that Dalby will not be part of the Leeds first team for the time being.
Instead, the talented and promising teenage forward will join up with the Leeds Under-23 side.
Leeds’s Director of Football Victor Orta has stated that the club are confident of having the youngster in the first team in two years’ time.
“We are pleased to welcome Sam to Leeds United, we believe that he can be an important player for the future,” Orta told Leeds’s official website.
“He has already tasted League Two and National League football, he is tall and strong, and we are confident that in a couple of years time he can be competing for a place in our first team.
“In the immediate future Sam will join in with our Under 23’s, who will help to develop him into the player we believe he can be.”
Dalby is a very talented and promising young teenage centre-forward, and the Leeds scouting team should be praised for signing him now.
While many Leeds fans will want the club to sign players who can make an immediate impact in the first team, it is great of Orta to look to the future and plan ahead.
Leeds are aiming to finish in the top six of the Championship this season.
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