Leeds United want to sign Tottenham outcast Harry Winks after Marcelo Bielsa snub – Sky pundit
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Leeds United will want to sign Harry Winks from Tottenham in the summer transfer window, according to Paul Robinson.
The Sunday People reported via their print edition on 27 March [page 51] that Winks, 26, is not in Antonio Conte’s long-term plans at Tottenham and the London club “will listen to any sensible offers in the summer”.
The Yorkshire Evening Post reported on 1 February that Marcelo Bielsa refused the chance to sign the England midfielder on loan from Spurs in the January transfer window.
Robinson is willing to wait and see what Jesse Marsch will want to do in regards to recruitment in the summer.
However, the ex-Leeds goalkeeper clearly feels that the Spurs outcast would be a good addition at Elland Road and that his former club should be trying to sign him.
“I know that Leeds will be a fan of Harry Winks from the recruitment side of things,” Robinson told MOT Leeds News.
“It’ll be interesting to see how much input the manager will have on the recruitment because we know what a good job Victor Orta’s done over the years, we know the type of player that he’s brought in and he’s had a great relationship with Marcelo Bielsa.
“But Bielsa’s ways and methods towards the end of his regime didn’t work and the recruitment didn’t work because there was no recruitment in January.
“That had to change and it has changed so it’ll be interesting to see how the manager wants to go forward.
“He has to have a big say in recruitment and on what players he wants.
“There has to be a relationship between Orta and the manager in a recruitment sense, as there was previously with Bielsa.
“Harry Winks is an outstanding player who I’ve said for a long time will be a good fit at Leeds.
“But it depends on what Marsch wants and how he wants to play and what type of player he wants.”
In other Leeds United news, Phil Hay’s been raving about an English midfielder who he’s heard linked with the Whites.