Patrick Bamford is keen to leave Leeds United at the end of this season in a bid to find more first-team opportunities, according to former professional scout Mick Brown.
Bamford has enjoyed some highs at Elland Road since signing from Middlesbrough in the summer of 2018, scoring 16 goals in Leeds’ promotion campaign and 17 goals in his first season in the Premier League.
However, a mix of injuries and loss of form have seen Bamford out fall in the hierarchical order in recent years and this season, he has played just 42 league minutes in four substitute appearances.
At 31, Bamford will be aware that he will have to act quickly if he is to re-establish himself as a regular starter in the top two divisions of English football.
Leeds have already been linked with RB Salzburg’s Danish striker Adam Daghim as a possible replacement (via Football fancast), with Los Blancos possibly willing to call on his association with Red Bull to bolster their forward line.
Patrick Bamford is ‘desperate’ to leave Leeds United
Former Man Utd, Sunderland and Blackburn Rovers scouting boss Brown, who counts Sir Alex Ferguson among the managers he has worked with, believes Bamford will be “desperate to leave” Elland Road in search of starts regular
“I heard he wants to leave,” Brown said Football Insider.
“He’s been there for a while so a change of location could tempt him to move and if he’s not playing regularly I can see him looking for a way out.
“Being on the bench every week will be frustrating for him because he will be used to being a regular starter in this team.
“I can see that Leeds are also keen to move on, because their record is not very good.
“He’s also had injuries in the last couple of years.
“Leeds want to get promoted and they want to be a Premier League team. They don’t fit that bill because they’ve been there before and they haven’t done it.
“I think it’s time for him to move on, and for Leeds to move on.
“But this movement will not be upwards, it will be downwards. For me, it has been a career success.
“If he does get that move, though, I would expect it to be at the end of the season and not in January, because at the moment he will still have a role to play.”
