Leeds could finally axe 217-game star with "phenomenal" 20 y/o who's a "box of tricks" - opinion

After sealing a loan exit from Leeds United in the January transfer window, it’s fair to say that Cody Drameh didn’t leave himself in former manager Marcelo Bielsa’s good books.

Following the move, the Argentine said: “I did not think he needed to play games elsewhere. He was a player who was very necessary with all of the absences we have. Clearly, I calculated things wrongly because what I consider as a great opportunity, those who are benefiting from that position, they prefer to abandon the club looking for another type of competition.

“Evidently, what I imagined as a great chance, they don’t. Perhaps I overvalue that you’re in a 20-man squad in the best league in the world. Of course with a player leaving it’s one alternative less. But when a player wants to leave, there’s no point trying to keep them.”

Since then, however, Drameh has been fully vindicated in his own personal decision to seek first-team football elsewhere, becoming a regular in Cardiff’s starting line-up. He has featured in 16 successive games, completing the full 90 minutes in all but the first one, when he was taken off with just over ten minutes to go.

After seeing his side pull off an impressive 4-0 victory over Peterborough United, manager Sean Morrison waxed lyrical about the Leeds loanee.

The Bluebirds boss said: “Barnsley was a horrible game. He’d never experienced anything like that and he came in with a couple of last-ditch tackles right at the death of the game, which was phenomenal. Tonight? Pff. It’s a good thing they can’t call him back after that because he was outstanding.”

It’s perhaps no surprise that Drameh has even been nominated for Cardiff’s Player of the Year award despite his mid-season arrival. Given his superb form for the