Leeds United news with midfielder deal 'progressing quickly', Koch details pre-season importance

Here are the latest Leeds United morning headlines on Monday, 4 July 2022.

Leeds United’s pursuit of Red Bull Leipzig midfielder Tyler Adams is ‘progressing quickly’ according to journalist Ben Jacobs. He claims that Adams is very keen on the move and a deal now could be done for as little as £10 million following Xavier Schlager’s arrival at Leipzig.

Leeds are in the market for a new holding midfielder with Kalvin Phillips’ move to Manchester City likely to be confirmed today. There have also been links to RB Salzburg’s Mohamed Camara, with Austrian outlets claiming a deal is close to completion.

Leeds United defender Robin Koch believes pre-season will prove to be an ‘important’ time for the squad to get to grips with Jesse Marsch’s methods. Marsch arrived at Elland Road in February with the task of keeping Leeds in the Premier League, which he achieved thanks to a final-day victory at Brentford.

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Given the pressure of the situation, though, the final few months of the season proved to be a difficult time for Marsch to fully stamp his philosophy on his new side. However, with a number of weeks on the training ground, and friendlies against various standard of opposition – including two Premier League teams – there is no better time than now to do so.

He said: “Of course, this is now a good time for us to prepare the new season. Even with the coach to get a little bit more time to improve some of our plays.

“Last season when he plays there was a lot of pressure as we needed results. Now we have more time to go through more things, his ideas of playing football. This is quite important for us now.”

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