Why Brenden Aaronson is coming back to Leeds United

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00:00Now there's all sorts of reasons you could talk about for him coming back to Leeds.

00:03You can talk about the finances and how you're not going to make a profit on this player

00:13as it stands. Maybe if he absolutely tears up the championship, maybe you could break even

00:19on him and sell him in a year's time. Maybe if he shows enough and shows that maybe he might

00:23be worth persisting with, maybe some point down the line you make a profit. But as it stands right

00:28now you're not getting £15 million for him. I dare say you might not get £10 million for him

00:34right now. So it makes no sense to sell because you'd be booking a loss and having not gone up

00:40into the Premier League you just cannot afford to book a loss right now. He's also, and I've

00:45confirmed this, coming back is basically him taking the wage that was on offer last summer,

00:53the wage reduction that was built into his contract. So he's certainly not getting paid

00:57anywhere near what he was paid as a Premier League player at Leeds and he's evidently willing

01:02to take that hit. I think the biggest and most interesting thing for me, other than the fact

01:09that Farka looks at him and thinks, yeah I can find a place for him in my team, maybe as a narrow

01:14winger on the right, maybe as a ten, I don't think I could see him playing the eight role for Farka.

01:21But it's the fact that Aronson himself is signing up for it. Now you can debate until the guys come

01:28home whether it's all spin that he had options elsewhere and every club says that they've

01:33beaten other clubs to somebody's signature, they say that player X has turned down bigger, more

01:39lucrative deals elsewhere to come and do this because he just wants to play for Leeds out of

01:42the goodness of his heart. But Aronson knows that he's going to take a degree of pelters

01:49and in possession of all that knowledge he's decided, no you know what, I want to come back.