It’s fair to say that Leeds United have not sat on their laurels after narrowly avoiding relegation from the Premier League last season.
They’ve moved quickly to strengthen Jesse Marsch’s squad, wrapping up deals for Brendan Aaronson and then Rasmus Kristensen before many clubs have got started.
The latter completed his move to Elland Road yesterday, joining in a €13m move from RB Salzburg on a deal until 2025.
He is the latest in a long line of players from the Austrian side to make the step up into one of Europe’s top five leagues, but it seems his decision to join Leeds has not gone down well.
Krone cover the deal today and say the player has become a ‘basement dweller in the top division’, and the transfer is one that ‘not everyone will understand’.
They explain he was one of the top performers in the Austrian Bundesliga last season, and it was clear he would be moving this summer, but there is little sense in him joining Leeds.
While his game will be a perfect fit for the Premier League, he has joined ‘one of the weakest teams’ in the league and will ‘probably be one of the basement dwellers’ this season as well.
According to the newspaper, Leeds are no better than Salzburg, and that will likely lead Christensen to watching international breaks ‘on TV in the future’.
There is a case to be made for Leeds fanbase, which is well known as being a strong one, and the move is ‘financially lucrative’ for the player as he’ll earn ‘several million’ at the club.
But he could have done the same at Borussia Dortmund, who were also interested in him and are ‘definitely a bigger soccer address’ than Leeds, who it seems Krone believe are below where Kristensen should have been aiming.
