Leeds United head coach Jesse Marsch insists the club were agonisingly close to signing Cody Gakpo from Dutch side PSV Eindhoven this summer
The American says Leeds were ‘99.9 per cent’ of the way towards signing Cody Gakpo from PSV this summer, revealing that he had spoken to the player before a move failed to materialise on transfer deadline day. Four months on, Gakpo has begun the Eredivisie season tremendously and has managed to score in each of the Netherlands’ three group stage matches at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
"We will continue to work on Gapko. Now it s [sic] time to focus on the pitch and support our new project and the great job Jesse and the staff are doing,” Radrizanni tweeted on September 1st.
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