£1.7m Summerville may have played final Leeds United game after Jesse Marsch update on Thursday
Crysencio Summerville may have played his final game for Leeds United after it was confirmed on Thursday that his season is over.
Speaking to the media on 28 April, Jesse Marsch said that the 20-year-old attacker has “twisted his ankle and he will be done for the season” [LeedsLive].
It’s no doubt a major blow for the Dutchman, who’s broken into the Leeds senior team this season and made nine appearances across all competitions.
What is most worrying about Summerville’s injury is that we might have seen the last of him in a Leeds United shirt.
Since Marsch came in to replace Marcelo Bielsa as the manager, Summerville has played just once and that was a seven-minute cameo against Watford on 9 April when Leeds already had the win in the bag.
Under Bielsa, he was handed five Premier League appearances as a substitute and a Carabao Cup start against Fulham.
It’s clear that Marsch didn’t see Summerville as highly in his pecking order as Bielsa did and that doesn’t help when there’s already speculation surrounding a player’s future.
In January, Summerville was linked with a loan move away from Elland Road with Hamburg [Hamburger Morgenpost] and Rangers [Daily Mail] both interested in signing him.
And that interest has remained in place in regards to Hamburg.
German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau reported on 23 March that Hamburg, a second-tier side in Germany, could look to sign Summerville this summer with the Dutchman valued at just £1.7million.
It’s likely that Summerville’s market value is that low because this summer, the former Feyenoord winger will enter the final year of his contract at Elland Road.
Writing on the LeedsLive website on 8 April, Beren Cross said: “Inevitably, there will be more interest in the summer in a winger who has still only played 122 minutes of Premier League action this season.
“Summerville’s contract, barring undisclosed extension clauses, is also set to expire in a little over 12 months, strengthening his bargaining power this close season.”
Bielsa confirmed, via Phil Hay, that Summerville asked him to leave in January, to which the former Leeds boss said he didn’t have any problem with that.
It seems that if the wantaway Leeds winger wants go this summer, we won’t see him at the club again, which is a shame.
He was dubbed by Noel Whelan as an “electric, brilliant” player last August [Football Insider] and has impressed for both the senior team and the Under-23s this season.
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