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da spicy bet： According to Football Insider, Leeds United have told Laurens De Bock to find a new club in the summer less than 18 months into his four-and-a-half year contract, and director of football Victor Orta should have some questions to answer as a result.
What’s the word, then?
Well, the Belgian arrived at Elland Road from Club Brugge in January 2018, but after a disappointing start to his Leeds career he was quickly frozen out by Paul Heckingbottom last term, and his successor Marcelo Bielsa didn’t have a different view on him either.
Having failed to make the matchday squad in the opening weeks of the current campaign, he was subsequently sent out on loan to K.V. Oostende, where he has made 16 appearances in all competitions but often found himself on the substitutes’ bench in recent weks.
Football Insider report that Bielsa still sees no place for the 26-year-old in his squad, and that the club have instructed the player’s agent to find a club who will take him on a permanent basis in the summer.
Orta has some questions to answer
The Spaniard oversees the recruitment of players and he certainly needs to come under scrutiny when it comes to this particular deal.
The Yorkshire outfit paid around £1.5m to bring him to England, handing him a long-term contract.
While they didn’t have a plethora of left-back options at that particular time the move has proven to be a particularly confusing one, seeing as it was quickly clear that he didn’t have the quality to perform consistently at this level – let alone if the Whites reach the Premier League.
Orta has got some deals right and some deals wrong during his tenure at Elland Road, but this is clearly one of his worst.