Leeds United transfer news: Whites beaten to the next Harry Kane by Championship club?

Leeds United were reportedly beaten by Middlesbrough successful the summertime contention for Will Lankshear's signature.

The 21-year-old has made a sensational commencement to beingness astatine the Riverside Stadium, with Kim Hellberg's troops sitting apical of the Championship, losing conscionable 1 of their opening 12 matches successful the 2nd tier.

Netting 11 goals successful 12 league appearances, Lankshear has taken to Teesside similar a duck to water, steaming up of the different attackers successful the part successful the hotly-contested contention for the Golden Boot award.

There was a feeling that Boro were missing that finishing interaction astatine the apical extremity of the transportation and the England Under-21 planetary has surely provided that, utilizing his guardant instincts to sniff retired chances.

During the week successful which Bayern Munich prima Harry Kane lifted the Balon d'Or, determination is statement whether Lankshear could beryllium the heir to the Three Lions striking throne erstwhile the Tottenham Hotspur large retires from planetary football.

Leeds beaten by Boro successful Lankshear race?

According to the Daily Mail, determination was a big of imaginable suitors for aboriginal England prima Lankshear during the astir caller summertime transportation window, including from clubs connected the continent.

On apical of that, it is believed that Leeds were among the Premier League clubs eyeing up a swoop for the 21-year-old, who is arguably the champion attacker successful the Championship astatine the moment.

The study claims that Tottenham academy postgraduate Lankshear rejected the advances of the Elland Road nine successful bid to unafraid a power to Hellberg's enticing task astatine Middlesbrough for this term.

It is understood that the Englishman wanted guarantees of first-team playing clip - thing that would beryllium harder to unafraid if helium had switched to an established Premier League side.

Recently making a Three Lions squad, Dominic Calvert-Lewin would person been peculiarly hard to displace from Daniel Farke's starting XI, with Lukas Nmecha besides successful the Yorkshire ranks.

Lankshear volition beryllium successful the PL adjacent season

That seems similar a comparatively harmless assumption. Lankshear has been the standout goalscorer successful the Championship truthful acold this play for a Middlesbrough broadside who pb the promotion-chasing battalion astatine the quarter-way mark.

Even should Boro capitulate erstwhile again and neglect to marque the apical flight, the 21-year-old would surely beryllium poached by a respectable top-flight club, with Leeds surely falling into that category.

Unlike successful erstwhile years nether Marcelo Bielsa and Sam Allardyce, the Whites are nary longer a relegation campaigner astatine the apical level, alternatively warring for a spot successful European contention adjacent term.