Jean-Kévin Augustin has found it difficult to turn things around since leaving Leeds United in 2020.
Sport1 have an article covering the striker’s issues. He was once considered one of France’s ‘most promising attacking talents’.
Augustin graduated from Paris Saint-Germain’s academy. After spending two years with their first team, he moved to RB Leipzig in 2017.
The forward played two years there before being sent on loan to AS Monaco in 2019. His stay was cut short in January 2020 when Leipzig sent him to Leeds United. That move had a conditional purchase obligation.
Marcelo Bielsa was then in charge at Elland Road and didn’t utilise the 28-year-old. To put it in context, he played 48 minutes from three Championship matches.
The 2019/20 season was extended beyond June 30th due to Covid and Leeds tried to use this to escape the purchase obligation. Leipzig dragged the Premier League through the courts and won.
However, ‘things continued to go downhill’ for the player after Leeds United refused to make his stay permanent. He joined Nantes for free in 2020 and was released two years later, which allowed him to complete a free transfer to FC Basel in 2022.
The Swiss club released the former Leeds flop at the end of the 2023/24 season, and he was without a club until Polish side Motor Lublin signed him in March of this year.
It’s been ‘an enormously painful fall’ for Augustin, who is running out of time to save his career.
