Tyler Adams joins Premier League side Bournemouth - Bitter pill to swallow for Leeds? - video Dailymotion

A tough depareturn for LUFC.

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00:00 Another player departing who has gone now, Tyler Adams, was an incredible signing when

00:05 you look at his consistency in the Leeds team in that Premier League season. Is it a bitter

00:10 pill to swallow or is he better off gone as well? Because he's clearly a talented player.

00:16 Yeah, definitely. It does feel like a bit more of a bitter pill to swallow that one

00:19 because I think when he came in he was so impressive, as you say, Charles, but straight

00:23 away he was one of them, just a seamless transition into the team. And I think a lot of people

00:27 genuinely looked at him as future captain material. I think they really did. And I think

00:30 that probably would have been the case if Leeds would have stayed up. But the brutal

00:34 reality is that relegation changes everything and people won't like it that under the day

00:38 he's basically decided to leave Leeds for Bournemouth and saying, 'Why have you gone

00:42 there?' For the bottom line is it's Bournemouth for a Premier League club and yes, OK, they

00:46 might end up fighting relegation again this season. It's too early to say, basically,

00:50 isn't it, at the moment? But even if they are fighting relegation or in the low reaches

00:53 of the Premier League, they still are a Premier League team and that's the brutal reality.

00:57 So I can see why he's gone, really. I mean, obviously, there's Chelsea interest as well

01:01 there. But it always felt difficult with Tyler. I know Leeds obviously looked to him as one

01:05 of the main ones they wanted to keep in the Championship, understandably so, because he's

01:08 a very good player. But I just always found it very difficult to imagine the USA international

01:12 captain playing Championship football. The USA are a decent side now, they go in places

01:17 as well. And I just think really there was an air of inevitability about it. Obviously,

01:21 that sort of was made a lot easier with his relegation release clause. But yeah, it does

01:25 feel like a bad one, a sort of bitter pill to swallow. What you would say with that is,

01:29 and I'm not comparing him by any stretch of the imagination, but the emergence of Archie

01:33 Gray certainly helped Leeds in midfield. If he wasn't around, then they really would look

01:36 very, very light. And he's very, very young. You don't want to put pressure on him. But

01:39 he's obviously an immensely talented youngster who's got a huge future. And Padu as well

01:43 has been a great signing in midfield. So at the moment, centre midfield-wise, they look

01:46 fine. I would say, OK, you know, fine, really, when those both fit. But you can't just rely

01:50 on those two. And what it does do is that Tyler Adams' departure definitely means they

01:54 need to bring in another centre midfielder. Yes, Jamie Shackleton's there as an option.

01:57 And, you know, there's various others who could probably cover that. But, you know,

02:00 very, very good player, Tyler Adams, you know, and basically needs replacing. That's the

02:04 upshot of it. You probably won't get someone as good as him. And you sort of wish him all

02:08 the best. But yeah, I mean, it did it to me anyway, it always felt a little bit inevitable

02:12 that and the bottom line is now he just needs replacing to some degree.