A wonderful start to the season for the winger.
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00:00 And Crisantio Somerville, you can't ignore him at the moment.
00:04 10 goal involvements in 11 games in the Championship so far.
00:08 An incredible return and he's just really taking the lead by the scruff of the neck.
00:13 How important has he been for Leeds this season so far?
00:16 Yeah, it's amazing.
00:19 Well, I think the sky's the limit for him really.
00:20 I mean, what are you now?
00:21 You're talking of his age and so 22, he's only played 52 games for Leeds.
00:25 I mean, so he's still young.
00:26 He's basically still relatively inexperienced as well.
00:28 So, you know, as I say, the sky is the limit for him.
00:31 It's interesting with him because you sort of almost forget that
00:34 Leeds basically signed him initially for the under 23s as it was then.
00:38 I think it was around about 1.3 million from Feyenoord in September 2020.
00:41 I mean, what a price.
00:42 I mean, you talked about the business Leeds have done over the years
00:45 and how some of the signings, you know, the expensive ones have been flops.
00:48 But I mean, look at that.
00:48 That's another one at what, you know, around about 1 million,
00:50 even if it's 2 million market for Somerville.
00:53 What he's worth at the moment, heaven knows.
00:55 Certainly a lot more than that, probably about 10 times that I would suggest.
00:58 But Leeds don't need to be thinking about what he's worth
01:00 and how much they can get from.
01:01 They need to be thinking about he is a player that they need to build
01:03 their future around.
01:04 And I think at the moment you'd probably say he's just about,
01:07 I mean, along with Routier,
01:08 you'd probably say he's about Leeds' star man, star player.
01:10 Every time I've watched him, even going back to the under 21s days,
01:14 it's always a frightening pace.
01:16 Always been so, so quick and always been so skilful.
01:18 I always sort of thought with him, not quite to the extent of Dan James,
01:21 but it was a little bit like, you know, end products,
01:23 you know, the final ball, the final shot.
01:25 But you hit the nail on the head, like you only have to look at his goal
01:27 involvements this season.
01:29 That's now, you know, turning up in droves in terms of like his end products.
01:32 And basically when he plays a lot against a lot of championship defences,
01:36 they just don't know what to do with him.
01:37 And quite often you'll have games where the only way they can stop him
01:39 is by pulling his shirt back, really,
01:40 which obviously leads to a yellow card quite often,
01:42 but it stops a Leeds attack.
01:44 So, yeah, he's a fantastic asset.
01:45 There's obviously lots of stories during the rounds about potential Premier League
01:49 interest in him and what will happen in January and this, that and the other.
01:52 And that's just the way the game is.
01:53 If somebody is a good player and they're excelling and they're a young age,
01:56 then teams are going to come in for him.
01:57 It's as simple as that.
01:58 And I don't think there's any doubt that there'll be interest in Somerville
02:01 in January and windows beyond.
02:02 But Leeds need to hold on to him.
02:04 He's a massive player for them and will hopefully be one of the key players
02:07 in Farringdon's promotion.
02:08 He's a seriously, seriously talented young player.
02:10 And yeah, the world's his oyster, really.