YEP chief football writer Graham Smyth ponders whether loan escapee duo Rasmus Kristensen and Max Wöber will be made to report back for pre-season this summer.
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00:00Yeah, it feels a lot like Leeds are clearing the decks this summer. I think they've made
00:07a conscious decision that we will minimise our losses if possible, break even if we can,
00:15if there's a profit to be made, fantastic, but let's clear the decks, get rid of the players
00:20that don't see themselves as our players. The interesting ones will be Wobur and Christensen.
00:28I wouldn't be surprised if we got some sort of an update on the club's stance with regards to them
00:35in the next few days or so, because at some point they're going to have to report back
00:38for pre-season unless there's a move for them. I wonder, and this is just purely speculation,
00:46but I wonder if there's a scenario where Leeds are aware that there's interest in Wobur.
00:52I know that Plettenberg has been pushing the Munch and Gladbach thing,
00:56with that brilliant thing that some transfer journalists do of making it sound unreasonable
01:00that the selling club have not agreed to the valuation that the buying club have put on it.
01:06Wouldn't surprise me if Leeds brought Wobur back or told him he had to report back for pre-season
01:16with a little bit of gamesmanship, a little bit of brinksmanship with Munch and Gladbach or
01:21buying clubs that, look, we're perfectly happy to have him. So if you want him, you're going to
01:25have to meet the valuation. I wonder if this might be one where they see we can definitely at least
01:30break even on him or even record a little bit of a P&S profit. I mean, I could be wrong. I could
01:38be wrong and they might have decided, you know what, he could be an asset for us in the championship.
01:43But why would he suddenly change his mind when he knows that Bundesliga clubs want him?