Leeds United striker Joe Gelhardt paramount to Philippe Clement at Rangers as transfer update emerges
Joe Gelhardt, a striker for Leeds United who was born in Liverpool, has been linked to a January transfer to Rangers.
The Daily Mail [January 8] reports that Celtic is also monitoring the 21-year-old who has descended through the ranks at Elland Road.
A January departure may be imminent since manager Daniel Farke prefers alternative attacking options to Gelhardt.
The video that was shown above shows the goal he scores, which demonstrates why Philippe Clement will love having him.
With an amazing first touch, he catches the ball and gathers it so composedly under pressure, running with it and setting it up so he can score from the edge of the penalty area.
If he can do this consistently in the Championship, he’ll certainly be able to do it at Rangers with better players around him.
In England’s second tier, he was at a club that was not expected to win every game, but it will be a different ball game at Ibrox.
According to the statistics above, he completes passes with an accuracy rate of over 80% and completes more than 14 passes in a ninety-minute period.
This places him in the upper 80 percentile among strikes, which is a favorable position to be in.
Leeds will undoubtedly be chosen because they shattered their record to sign Georignio Rutter and even paid a respectable sum of money to acquire Joel Piroe.
In the final third, Clement prefers his strikers to be adaptable, drop deep, and drift into space. Gelhardt certainly checks all of these boxes.
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