Leeds loanee who was "like Gazza" saw his value rise to £60m after leaving
da bet esporte： Leeds United are no strangers to the loan market and they know how important it can be at Championship level, which is also the case for Daniel Farke.
da betway： The German head coach’s 2018/19 Championship title-winning campaign was bolstered by the loan addition of Jordan Rhodes, and his 2020/21 title-winning side at Norwich City had Ollie Skipp on loan from Tottenham Hotspur.
This season, Farke brought in Manor Solomon on loan from Spurs and Joe Rothwell on loan from Premier League side Bournemouth to bolster his Leeds side.
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Both players have starred for the West Yorkshire outfit in the Championship so far this term, proving themselves to be very valuable additions to the group.
Rothwell has started 21 of his 33 appearances in the second tier this season, completing 91% of his attempted passes, and registered two important assists in the dramatic comeback against Sunderland last month.
Solomon, meanwhile, has racked up seven goals and seven assists in 20 Championship starts, which has led to him ranking incredibly highly against his positional peers in the division, as shown in the table below.
24/25 Championship
Solomon (per 90)
Percentile rank vs att. mids & wingers
Non-penalty goals
0.36
Top 10%
Shot-creating actions
5.09
Top 1%
Assists
0.36
Top 5%
Expected Assisted Goals
0.35
Top 1%
Successful take-ons
2.62
Top 2%
Stats via FBref
Both players have, therefore, had a positive influence on the pitch this season and Farke will be hoping that they will both have played a part in a promotion to the Premier League by the end of the campaign.
Leeds, and any club bringing in a loanee, do not always see the best of the players that they have on loan, though, and that was the case once upon a time with Ross Barkley.
Remember Ross Barkley's loan spell at Leeds
The Whites swooped to sign the English midfielder on loan from Premier League side Everton on a one-month loan in January 2013, with Neil Warnock in charge at Elland Road at the time.
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At the time of his loan spell with Leeds, Transfermarkt valued Barkley at just £3.8m after he had scored four goals in 13 games on loan at Sheffield Wednesday in the first half of the campaign.
BBC Sport’s Kevin Kilbane claimed the midfielder was “like Paul Gascoigne”, who scored ten goals in 57 caps for England, but the Whites did not see the best of his abilities, as he assisted one goal in four appearances before his return to Goodison Park.
Barkley went on to become a regular for Everton in the 2013/14 campaign, scoring six goals in 34 Premier League games, and that is when his career really kicked off.
By November 2014, less than two years on from his time with Leeds, the Manchester Evening News reported that the Toffees had placed a £60m price tag – a British record fee at the time – on the midfielder’s head amid interest from Manchester City.
This means that his value soared by a whopping 1479%, from £3.8m, between his one month at Leeds in January and February 2013 and the time of that report in November 2014.
Unfortunately, Warnock and the Whites did not get to see the best version of the talented ace, who currently plays for Aston Villa in the Premier League and has scored three times in 16 matches, as they only had him on loan for a month in the very early stages of his career.
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