da aposte e ganhe： According to reports in the Yorkshire Evening Post, Leeds United are targeting a move for out-of-favour Hamburg striker Pierre Michel-Lasogga.
da lvbet： The Yorkshire Evening Post says that the Yorkshire outfit have been trailing the 25-year-old throughout the summer transfer window after the centre-forward was deemed surplus to requirements by the Bundesliga side.
A move for a striker looks to be on the cards after Marcus Antonsson left to join Blackburn Rovers on a season-long loan deal on Friday, while Souleymane Doukara didn’t feature in either of the club’s opening two match-day squads in the new campaign and could also depart.
This would leave manager Thomas Christiansen with just Chris Wood and Caleb Ekuban to pick from and that might not be enough depth if the Championship side are to win promotion this term, meaning he could step up his interest in Lasogga.
Here are three reasons the Leeds target would inspire them to secure a long-awaited Premier League return…
Pedigree
While he may be surplus to requirements at Hamburg, Lasogga has certainly shown enough throughout his career to suggest that he could be a huge hit in the Championship with Leeds.
Even though he struggled for game time last season – often finding himself coming off of the substitutes’ bench because of injury problems and playing second fiddle to Bobby Wood and Michael Gregoritsch – the 25-year-old is strong physically and decent in the air, but he has also shown what a good finisher he can be too.
He scored eight goals in 30 appearances for the Bundesliga strugglers in the 2015/16 campaign while he netted an even more impressive 13 times in just 20 German top flight matches in the 2013/14 season during a loan spell with Hamburg.
Competition
While Chris Wood certainly didn’t get complacent last season after scoring 27 Championship goals as Leeds narrowly missed out on finishing in the play-off positions, he didn’t have too much competition for the centre-forward position.
If Lasogga – who has proven himself in the Bundesliga caps and has 11 Germany caps to his name –came to the club then the New Zealand international would know that he would need to raise his game and perform at a consistent and decent level every week in order to keep his place in the side.
Thomas Christiansen could even be tempted to partner the duo together if he thought it would work or if the side needed a goal, and you certainly wouldn’t bet against one of the duo finding the net if that proved to be the case.
Statement of intent
With four goals in 11 appearances for Germany and a decent goalscoring record in the Bundesliga when he is a regular starter and fully fit, it would be hard to argue that if Leeds signed Lasogga it would be a huge statement of intent and make some of their Championship rivals sit up and take notice.
If the 25-year-old can show the form he did in the past that earned him a call-up for the current world champions, then he could help inspire the Yorkshire outfit win promotion.
While he would obviously be seen as a signing for the present, there would be little doubt that he would also be ready to make the step up to the Premier League with the club in a year’s time if they have the successful that season the club and fans are hoping for.
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