Leeds United confirm departures of seven players with trio offered professional contracts - YEP 10/6/22
Leeds United have published their retained list for the 2022/23 Premier League and released a group of seven players.
By Graham Smyth
The Whites have confirmed Nohan Kenneh's move to Scottish
Premiership side Hibernian, which was announced by the Edinburgh outfit on May
23 but will not be ratified until July 1.
They will also be parting company with Laurens De Bock, Josh
Galloway, Alfie Hughes and Bobby Kamwa, while scholars Lui Bradbury, Joe
Littlewood and Mitchel Picksley will also depart Thorp Arch at the end of their
contracts.
Belgian defender De Bock arrived at Elland Road in January
2018 from Club Brugge, signing a four-and-a-half-year contract. The 29-year-old
left-back found himself behind the likes of Barry Douglas and Gjanni Alioski in
the pecking order however and outside Marcelo Bielsa's plans in the summer of
2018, so has spent time on loan with Oostende, Sunderland, ADO Den Haag and
Zulte Waregem, with whom he has reportedly agreed a permanent move now that his
Leeds stint is over. He departs having made seven appearances in the colours of
Leeds, all of which came in the 2017/18 season.
Galloway, 20, signed from Carlisle United in 2019 but was
most recently loaned out to Northern Premier League outfit FC United of
Manchester earlier this year. The midfielder had trials with Barrow late in
2021 but could not secure a move.
Nineteen-year-old winger Hughes signed professional terms
with Leeds last summer, but as recently as March turned out for Newcastle
United's U23s whilst on trial with the north east club.
And Kamwa featured infrequently during the Under-23s'
title-winning campaign of 2020/21 and subsequently went on trial with Rotherham
United later that summer. He spent a portion of last season on loan at Scottish
side Dunfermline.
Leeds have made offers of professional contracts to
goalkeeper William Brook, winger Keenan Carole, son of ex-Whites player
Sébastien and right-back Harvey Sutcliffe.
A club spokesperson added: "We would like to express
our thanks to those players who will leave the club in the coming weeks and we
wish them every success in the future."
