The month of January is behind us, vegans and abstainers have gone through their month of awareness. There are no more football transfers until July and the summer window – unless these are from one with a differently aligned season.
However, whilst the actual transfer window has shut, cutting off anything other than free agent deals, another window has opened for midfielder Ouasim Bouy. Leeds United opened their arms over summer 2017 and brought in Buoy, this time from Italy rather than from Spain where a lot of their earlier business had been done.
United went to Juventus to bring in once highly rated youngster Ouasim Bouy, who was last on the books at Juventus. Buoy had been seen as something of a ‘next big thing’ when La Vecchia Signora bought him from Ajax in 2012 for a fee thought to be around £400,000. His time at Juve though was signified by a series of loans out to the likes of Hamburger SV, Panathinaikos and Palermo.
Bouy spent the first half of this season out on loan to Cultural Leonesa in Spain’s La Liga 2 competition, and didn’t have the best of times – only featuring on four occasions. The Spanish club didn’t want to retain his services over the second half of the season, the midfielder being sent/brought back to Elland Road. It was thought that he would be loaned back out, but that hasn’t been the case.
Reasons why this hasn’t been the case were voiced by Thomas Christiansen, and relayed via the Yorkshire Evening Post’s Lee Sobot. Christiansen said: “I took the decision having spoken to him. He decided to stay to have an opportunity even if it’s a small opportunity.”
Christiansen expanded on this saying, “I like very much how he trains and he adds to the team which is the most important. He has desire and he is good player.”
That ‘desire’ may come in useful as Leeds United look to press on into the business end of the 2017/18 campaign, a campaign that sees them sat in 10th place and just four points shy of the play-off places.
