Big change in store as Leeds United 'keeper makes permanent transfer to European top-flight team — YEP 7/7/24
By Lee Sobot
A Leeds United goalkeeper has sealed a permanent transfer to
a European top-flight side.
Leeds United goalkeeper Kristoffer Klaesson has sealed a
permanent switch to a European top-flight side.
Klaesson, who made four appearances for United’s first team,
has signed for Polish side Raków Częstochowa who finished last season’s
Ekstraklasa campaign in seventh place.
Klaesson, 23, joined Leeds from Norwegian outfit Valarenga
in July 2021 and the Norway youth international made three appearances for
Daniel Farke’s first team last season.
But Klaesson was essentially third choice keeper behind
Illan Meslier and Karl Darlow and has now ended his three years at the club
with the switch to Poland. The keeper had one year left on his Whites contract.
As Dani van Den Huevel was also released this summer, it
means Leeds will have a new third choice keeper for next season.
Twenty-year-old Harry Christy made the Whites bench for January’s FA Cup clash
at home to Plymouth Argyle.
