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James Barker

Fri 15 May 2026 11:40, UK

Jeremy Monga’s underlying numbers from his 2025-26 season with Leicester City should give Leeds United cause for transfer pause.

With Leeds’ Premier League status wrapped up for the season, Elland Road focus may now be already shifting towards the summer transfer window.

The Whites always have an eye out for young and developing players to sign and nurture, and Leicester starlet Monga could be on their radar.

Having emerged from the Foxes’ academy system recently, 16-year-old Monga is very highly-rated at the King Power Stadium.

As such, the teenage winger is being tipped for a big-time Premier League move in the near future, with Leeds having been linked to his signature ahead of the summer window.

How did Jeremy Monga perform for Leicester in 2025-26?

It’s recently been reported that Leeds were possibly looking to sign Monga for a fee in the ballpark of £6million, which could be a bargain buy if he reaches his potential.

However, it’s since been claimed that Leeds aren’t interested in signing Monga this summer, so conflicting reports have served up the possibility for this to become an ongoing, ‘will they, won’t they?’ saga for the Whites.

Given his tender age and the fact he’s already made 37 competitive appearances in all competitions for Leicester, the versatile winger is clearly a player that has star potential.

But, when you peel back the curtain on his underlying numbers from this past 2025-26 campaign in the Championship, one which saw him relegated to League One with the Foxes, most of his production doesn’t jump off the screen.

In 27 second-tier games this past term, Monga scored just the one goal and provided two assists, with eight league starts culminating in a total of 921 minutes of league action for him this year.

As per FotMob, Monga took just 0.68 shots per 90 in the Championship this season, which ranks him in the bottom 5.1 percentile of left wingers in the division from the 2025-26 campaign.

He also created 0.98 chances per game which put him in the bottom 28 percentile of his positional peers, whilst registering an 11.1 per cent successful cross rate per game, placing him in the bottom 15.9 percentile respectively.

Monga was dispossessed an average of 3.22 times per 90, won just 38 per cent of his duels, made only 1.17 defensive contributions per game and Leicester failed to keep a single clean sheet when he was on the pitch respectively.

Monga showed he’s got skills but didn’t prove production

For clarity, those underlying numbers aren’t to say Monga is a bad player, because he most certainly is not.

He’s an extremely gifted and confident dribbler of the ball, but that’s also been to his detriment at times in 2025-26, passing up wiser opportunities to pass or shoot and instead looking to beat one too many defenders.

Monga’s decision-making needs to improve if he’s to play at the top level, but he’s still so young, and his maturity in that respect will hopefully naturally grow in the coming years.

For now though, he probably showed too much dribbling and not enough concrete production to warrant Leeds parting with a sizeable fee for him this summer, as the Whites shouldn’t just throw around money for the sake of it because he could be cheap.