Leeds star sold by Christiansen is outscoring Rutter & Summerville in PL

Leeds United fell to their second defeat of the Championship season on Wednesday night time as they have been narrowly crushed 1-0 by Millwall at The Den.

Their solely different loss within the division, additionally a 1-0 defeat, got here towards Burnley at Elland Street and the Whites stay inside the highest six, as they chase promotion again to the Premier League on the second time of asking.

Daniel Farke‘s aspect simply missed out on promotion final season, ending third within the desk earlier than dropping within the play-off ultimate, and the German head coach shall be hoping that it’s second time fortunate this time period.

The German supervisor gained the Championship two occasions in three makes an attempt with Norwich Metropolis, which reveals that he is aware of methods to get out of the league, however it’s right down to him to show that he can do it with one other membership.

Farke’s hopes of attaining promotion in his second season in West Yorkshire have been, although, dealt a blow through the summer time switch window, as quite a few his key gamers moved on.

Crysencio Summerville, Archie Grey, Georginio Rutter, and Glen Kamara all sealed everlasting exits, with Summerville and Rutter’s departures coming as an enormous blow to the supervisor’s attacking choices.

Summerville’s type since leaving Leeds

The Dutch ahead earned himself a transfer to Premier League aspect West Ham United after an excellent return of 19 goals and nine assists within the Championship through the 2023/24 marketing campaign.

His exploits within the ultimate third resulted in Summerville claiming the PFA Championship Player of the Year award, which made it tough for the Whites to maintain maintain of him after they didn’t win promotion.

Since his transfer to the Hammers, nevertheless, the 23-year-old wizard has not loved the simplest of begins to the season within the English top-flight.

Summerville has failed to ascertain himself as a daily starter for Julen Lopetegui at West Ham and has not proven sufficient in his minutes on the pitch to earn extra recreation time.

As you may see within the desk above, the previous Leeds celebrity has solely began two of his 9 appearances, which means that the supervisor doesn’t belief him to start out week-in-week-out at this level in his profession.

In these 9 video games, the winger has produced a aim however has additionally failed to offer a lot in the best way of creativity and has misplaced the vast majority of his bodily duels.

For the £25m that they reportedly paid the Whites to safe his signature, West Ham shall be hoping that Summerville will finally kick on and emerge as a key participant for the Hammers.

Rutter’s type since leaving Leeds

In the meantime, Brighton & Hove Albion smashed their switch report to signal Rutter from Leeds for a reported fee of £40m, and he has fared higher than his former teammate thus far.

The France U21 worldwide racked up six goals and 15 assists in 42 appearances within the Championship for the West Yorkshire outfit final season, which satisfied the Seagulls to splash an enormous amount of money on the attacking midfielder.

Brighton have been lining up in a 4-4-2 or 4-2-3-1 formation underneath Fabian Hürzeler this time period, with Rutter up alongside Danny Welbeck within the former and within the quantity ten place within the latter.

This has helped to permit the French star to showcase the perfect of his talents within the ultimate third as each a scorer and a creator for Brighton, establishing himself as a daily starter while Summerville nonetheless struggles to take action.

As you may see within the desk above, Rutter has produced 5 targets and ‘massive probabilities’ created in simply seven Premier League begins for his new membership, dwelling as much as his enormous price ticket already.

He’s additionally extremely unlucky to not be on three assists and 4 ‘massive probabilities’ created as his tackle-cum-cross for Welbeck towards Tottenham, for causes unknown, was not accredited to him as an help or probability created.

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While Summerville and Rutter have had various levels of success within the top-flight since leaving Elland Street, there’s one former Leeds star who’s outperforming each of them – Chris Wooden.

Chris Wooden’s type this season

It has been over seven years because the New Zealand worldwide made the transfer from Leeds to Burnley for a reported fee of £15m, shortly after Thomas Christiansen arrived on the membership, because the supervisor cashed in on the ahead in his first switch window in cost.

He had racked up 44 goals in 88 games for the Whites throughout a two-year spell in West Yorkshire after which managed a return of 53 goals in 165 video games throughout his time with Burnley.

Wooden then spent 12 months with Newcastle, from January 2022 to January 2023, and solely produced five goals in 39 outings for the Magpies, earlier than his switch to Nottingham Forest – initially on mortgage – initially of final yr.

The previous Leeds star solely scored one goal in seven video games through the second half of the 2022/23 marketing campaign for the Difficult Timber, earlier than hitting his stride final time period with 14 goals in 31 Premier League matches.

As you may see within the desk above, Wooden has made an outstanding begin to the present season with Nottingham Forest, scoring eight targets in ten video games and overperforming towards his xG.

The 32-year-old marksman, who was described as a “winger’s dream” by ex-West Ham and Wolves ahead Matt Jarvis, has solely been outscored by Manchester City’s Erling Haaland (11), which implies that he has been one of many high strikers within the division this time period.

He has outperformed and outscored each Rutter and Summerville within the Premier League this season and it’s a disgrace that Leeds have been by no means capable of take pleasure in his goalscoring exploits within the top-flight throughout his time at Elland Street.

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