Leeds United ready £1m bid to sign Birmingham City teen George Hall
Leeds United are ready to table a bid worth £1million to sign Birmingham City attacker George Hall, according to The Daily Mail.
The newspaper reported via their print edition on 1 June [page 70] that Leeds have a number of targets on their shortlist after Brenden Aaronson became Jesse Marsch’s first signing and Hall, 17, is among them.
Hall can play in a variety of midfield and attacking positions and made his senior debut for Birmingham in the Championship last season.
One for the future
Birmingham’s academy is definitely one to keep an eye on.
They’re a club who are down in the dumps – almost literally – but despite their continual woes at the wrong end of the Championship, they keep on producing top-class talent.
You could argue, in fact, that Blues have the most successful academy in the Second City.
Jude Bellingham, Nathan Redmond, Demarai Gray, Jack Butland, Jobe Bellingham and Amari Miller, who joined Leeds last year, have all been developed at Birmingham City in recent years.
Is Hall the next hotshot to come off the conveyor belt of top-class talent in the West Midlands?
He’s certainly a versatile young player with stats by transfermarkt showing he played on both wings, as a central midfielder, as an attacking midfielder and as a striker last season for Blues.
The England Under-18 international also played twice for Birmingham’s first-team in the Championship when he started as a striker against QPR in January before coming on the bench as a sub against Blackburn in the final game of the season.
As quoted by LFE on 25 November, after he signed a new contract at St Andrew’s, Hall revealed that he sees himself as a “box-to-box” midfielder more than anything else.
Birmingham’s Under-18’s lead coach Martyn Olorenshaw spoke a bit about Hall too, saying: “He is an attacking midfielder with an ability to create and score goals. He is explosive, dynamic and has the prowess to influence games. He is a really exciting player that has the ceiling to achieve whatever he wants to achieve.
“He has received international recognition recently which is a huge achievement, a testament to all his hard work and a reflection of his character.”
For £1million, Leeds cannot go wrong.
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