Should Leeds sign Cheikhou Kouyaté on a free transfer?

Leeds United's pursuit of a free agent could lead them to sign a former World Cup winner or Premier League stalwart

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00:00looking at the list of free agents just available on the internet it's not a

00:04great deal of them who you think could potentially come in. I know that I spoke

00:10to people in Germany about Christoph Kramer who obviously won the World Cup

00:14with Germany in 2014, played under Farka during the 22-23 season at Borussia

00:20Mönchengladbach but left this summer, mutually terminated his contract after

00:23it became obvious that he wasn't going to play. He's had his injury

00:27issues. As far as I'm aware I've been told that he hasn't been

00:32involved in a professional setting since leaving his Mönchengladbach contract

00:37and you know his preference is supposedly to remain in Germany. He's

00:42got punditry work that apparently he's made a good impression doing. He's 33

00:46years old. Ultimately how much of an impact is he going to have, would he have

00:50if he were persuaded to come and join Daniel Farka? The people that I spoke to

00:54in Germany certainly can't see it happening or it being a likely one. Again

00:58you never rule things out in football but it's not one that I think is likely.

01:02There have been others that have been suggested. Tsheku Kiarte played with

01:06West Ham, played with Crystal Palace out of contract as of this summer. How long

01:11will it take for him to get up to speed? What sort of training has he been doing

01:14since the expiry of his contract? Is it really worthwhile bringing him in on a

01:18deal until the end of the season when you know potentially January 1st you

01:22could have Ethan Ampadu back? Kiarte from Boxing Day 2023, he played six

01:30minutes for Forest in the second half of last season so it's difficult. The match

01:36fitness thing I think is probably Farka's biggest concern and you

01:41have to say with a player like that it's not even as if he was playing regularly

01:44up until May and has then had a few months off. You're actually saying he

01:49last played regular minutes. I mean last season was so sporadic for him. He only got

01:58208 minutes across the entire season so you're actually going to go back to the

02:0222-23 season and even then he had a big layoff for the hamstring. The

02:14difficulty is extreme.