According to Italian source TUTTOmercatoweb (TMW) five days ago, Leeds United had asked Italian giants Juventus about the loan availability of young forward Moise Kean – further details of which emerged today.
TMW said five days back that there were “British sirens” sounding for the youngster who is currently on loan at Hellas Verona from Juventus, who are known as La Vecchia Signora in Italian football.
Vercelli-born 17-year-old Kean is an Italian international at age levels ranging from Under-15 to Under-19, where he made his début at the start of September 2017. Across all these age groups, young starlet Kean has featured 28 times for his country, netting 13 goals.
The 17-year-old is currently on loan at Hellas Verona and has been well-and-truly bloodied, featuring in 15 Serie A games and scoring two goals – one of these against giants AC Milan in a 3-0 victory.
Goals are what Kean knows, regularly scoring for Juventus’ youth and Under-17/19 squads. Before making the step up to senior football, he was on fire in Juve’s Under-17 set-up. At this level he was quite prolific, scoring 29 goals in just 36 appearances – including 19 in the 2015/16 season.
Now the story has taken on an added layer of intrigue with news coming via Italian outlet Calciomercato who today said that Italian giants Juventus had “unveiled the proposal received for Kean.”
Calciomercato say that “an offer from Leeds for Moise Kean” was a loan deal but one that they call a “dry loan“. What this entails is Leeds United having a “willingness to pay most of his signing,” the Whites fulfilling his current salary “almost totally.”
