Samu Saiz’s future could lie “over the sea” with the MLS, according to Yorkshire Evening Post journalist Phil Hay.
Saiz is the story that won’t stop for Leeds fans. The talented attacker left Leeds in December in a shock move, after citing personal issues. He joined Getafe on a half-season loan.
That hasn’t worked out for him and with Leeds struggling for goals, some Leeds fans have been asking whether Saiz could be recalled to help Leeds out.
Hi @PhilHayYEP is there any chance #lufc can get Samu Saiz back just for the playoff games? Cheers
— Sharpy (@balagooosie) April 29, 2019
However, Phil Hay, senior reporter from the Yorkshire Evening Post, said that couldn’t happen. And even if it could there would be no way Marcelo Bielsa would want him back.
Talking on the latest episode of the Inside Elland Road podcast Hay said, “There is an option for him [Saiz] to go to Getafe at the end of the season but he is absolutely not going to sign for them. They’re not going to pay the money for him. I think it will be somewhere else for him and it could be over the sea – there’s talk about MLS interest in him.
“He won’t come back to Leeds [for the play-offs], if you followed anything about Bielsa this season, there is no way he wants someone here in May that didn’t want to be here in November.
“He clearly has issues in his life that didn’t suit him or attitude problems. Quite honestly, I think it was a bit of both. His half-season loan doesn’t include a recall option, so he can’t come back anyway.”
Saiz was bought for £3million from SD Huesca in the summer of 2017.
OPINION
Things haven’t worked out for Saiz in Getafe and while some Leeds fans want to see him come back and fire them into the Premier League, that’s not going to happen. Leeds will have to get promoted without the help of their pint-sized dynamo and it sounds like his future might lie a long way away in America. Previous reports had said that Leeds were expecting offers from Spain but the MLS interest is a new development and that could be the best opportunity for Leeds to try to make a profit on the player. At this point in time, they would probably take breaking even on the deal and moving on. Either way it seems that he has no future at Elland Road and Marcelo Bielsa will need funds to strengthen whether he wins promotion or not.