Michael Brown has heaped praise on Portsmouth forward Jamal Lowe with his rise up the football pyramid looking as though it might continue this month amid reported interest from Leeds United.
According to Football Insider, the Whites have started talks about signing the 24-year-old attacker, who is Pompey’s top goalscorer this season with 11 goals in 29 appearances across all competitions.
Lowe has risen up the ranks from non-league football to the top of League One, and there seems to be the chance that he could join Championship leaders Leeds before the end of the month.
And Sky Sports pundit Brown, who has covered Leeds games this season, believes that Lowe’s hard work and desire means that he would be a good addition to Marcelo Bielsa’s squad at Elland Road.
“He’s a player that’s been at Barnet and has gone off on loan to lower areas like Boreham Wood and St. Albans City,” Brown told Football League World.
“He went to Hampton and Richmond Borough before getting to Portsmouth and played about 100 games in non-league so he’s certainly done it the hard way.
“You can see that he has got that desire to do it and to try and make it so maybe Leeds United would be interested in him because of that desire.
“But there’s a lot of talk and Portsmouth are a club that won’t want to sell so will Leeds be able to get him?
“There are other clubs interested in him and rightly so because he is doing a good job.”
OPINION
Leeds need to sign some players this month. Bielsa may think that his squad is good enough to get him through to the end of the season, but the Argentine has notably seen his side’s struggle in the second-halves of seasons and Leeds have now lost their last three games. It is pretty clear that if Bielsa is going to sign someone, it is going to be a wide-forward like Lowe who can get among the goals. The former Barnet star has been in superb form at Fratton Park this term and judging by the way he has risen up the league pyramid, he should be able to take to the Championship like a duck to water. There is not a lot of difference between the top of League One and the lesser teams in the second-tier, so he should be a good back-up option for Bielsa. The only issue is that if the Whites do get promoted this term, they will have themselves a player who is not Premier League quality. It is probably more beneficial for Bielsa to look at making loan signings that are first team quality and can have their future’s reassessed in the summer.