Leeds have been keen to invest in young talent in recent years and it has paid off recently with the likes of Crysencio Summerville and Pascal Struijk.For every signing like these two, however, there were several that failed to make an impact at Leeds at all..After a stint in the summer window, Lewis Bate appeared to be the only young player almost certain to leave the club in January.Reporter Pete O’Rourke revealed on Friday that Leeds have agreed to loan the midfielder to MK Dons in the league:.With Bate out of contract in the summer window, it means he will almost certainly leave the club when his contract expires at the end of the season..
Bate was one of three youth signings in the summer of 2021, joining Leo Hjelde and Kristoffer Klaesson.Only Klaesson has been used relatively recently in the league this season, covering injuries to Illan Meslier and Karl Darlow,
while Hjelde and Bate have mostly been out in the cold.It comes after both youngsters were loaned out at Oxford and Rotherham last season, with neither breaking into the first team under Farke.Both Hjelde and Bate came out of the U21s this season and usually look above the rest, further highlighting how Leeds are wasting them.Thanks to the bright light of the England youth national team Bate and Chelsea’s youth system, he has now somehow retreated to the second level of the league, while no one can say anything about Hjelde..
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