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What Lionel Messi Makes Of French Striker Expected To Sign For Leeds

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Lionel Messi, what does he know?

No the Argentine forward isn’t coming to Elland Road himself, rather he’s singing the praises of someone else who it’s growing increasingly likely, is.

Jean-Kevin Augustin was one of 9 players Lionel Messi singled out as a “wonderkid” forĀ Marca back in 2016. At this time, Augustin was plying his trade at Paris Saint-Germain, having risen through the youth ranks there. During his time in Paris he was mainly the understudy to Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Edison Cavani, again anyone know who they are?

He then moved to RB Leipzig, for a fee of around 13 million euros. In the 2017-18 season he scored 12 goals in all competitions, here he was competing with Timo Werner and Yussuf Poulsen for a starting place.

Monaco then took the young striker on loan at the start of this season with an optional buy-out clause but it’s not thought that it would be too much of an issue if this had to be terminated to sanction a move to Leeds.

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