Assessing Kelechi Iheanacho's link to Leeds United

Graham Smyth and Joe Donnohue discuss the likelihood that Kelechi Iheanacho to Leeds United rumours are in fact false

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00:00Should we discuss, as a final topic, the rumour that circulated yesterday relating to Kelechi

00:13Iheanacho?

00:14Or rather, should we say Kelechi Iheanacho no?

00:17It doesn't make a lot of sense, this one, as far as links go.

00:21There's been lots of links in January, there always is, and some of them you think, that

00:26doesn't get me up out of my armchair to even go and check wages, for one, how his season

00:34has gone, for another.

00:35The fact that Leeds are monitoring Patrick Bamford to see if they need a striker, but

00:41we know that Farke is happy with Peru and Joseph as a 1-2 right now, so I think unlikely.

00:49I think unlikely as well.

00:51Knowing what we know about what his wage packet was at Leicester last season, you can't imagine

00:57he'll have taken too much of a wage cut at Sevilla this year, where he's played nine

01:03games in La Liga, hasn't scored, hasn't assisted.

01:05Yes, he's got three goals in two Copa del Rey games, but I believe they were against

01:11very, very much lower league opposition.

01:15Hasn't played regularly recently, and what Farke was saying about you need quality, and

01:24there's no doubt that he has that, but you need character as well, you need affordability,

01:32and certainly in the affordability category, you'd have to think that it would be a difficult

01:37one to see Leeds go in for, considering how well thought out the rest of their business

01:43has been.

01:44And also last season, you know, he got five goals in 23 championship games for Leicester.

01:49He didn't exactly set the world on fire.

01:52Four of those were in consecutive games, so there was a good portion of 20 appearances

01:56where he just didn't score.

01:59I just don't see them doing a striker unless Bamford is really crocked, or somehow they

02:05find a unicorn who's affordable and is going to guarantee 10 goals, which they know at

02:09the end of the season.