With injuries to both Rick Karsdorp and Leeds United loanee Rasmus Kristensen injured, Daniele De Rossi had to turn to Zeki Celik for the right-back role.
The former Lille player has been revitalised by this new usage, and Corriere dello Sport explain that he now has gained some trust within the squad a few weeks after he was deemed a dead man walking, with a transfer on the horizon.
This isn’t good news for Leeds, as the newspaper explain Kristensen hasn’t lived up to any of the expectations that arrived with him.
In fact, he has ‘quickly turned out to be a photocopy reinforcement’ of Karsdorp, in the sense that he is a player who runs a lot, is strong, but has ‘little imagination’ and a ‘linear thinking’ approach to football, as well as an ‘ungainly foot’.
In short, he isn’t what AS Roma were wanting, suggesting that a return to Leeds is on the card, leaving the Elland Road side with decisions to make in the summer.
Whether that will also apply to Diego Llorente isn’t said, but the Spaniard has at least a cheap purchase option in his loan that makes a deal a bit more palatable.
