Lee Sobot of the Yorkshire Evening Post discusses three young Leeds players who made big impressions during the recent international break.
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00:00 the season. As you got Archie.
00:07 For Italy. So again, leads players making impact on the international scene and they all seem to me like relative successes.
00:15 Absolutely. Yeah. The way to summarize that is you say the future is bright. There's no doubt about that whatsoever.
00:20 And you just hope that that immediate future is in the Premier League next season. And obviously time will tell over these over these final seven,
00:26 eight games. But yeah, all three of them is basically a Leeds United hat trick of impacts really on that one same night.
00:31 In terms of Archie Gray having an assist for the 21s, which obviously followed a goal on his debut for the 21s.
00:37 I mean, that was just typical of his season, really, you know, I mean, obviously elevated to that level.
00:41 And then he comes on and then straight away gets his first goal. I mean, absolutely incredible stuff.
00:45 And what a talent. We've spoken about him so many times on here already.
00:48 But the reality is he's only going to get better and better. He's obviously no longer this 17 year old now.
00:54 He's now 18. You know, he's a bit old now, isn't he? But I mean, whole world ahead, future ahead of him.
01:00 He's literally only going to get better and better. And even like something like playing for the 21s.
01:04 And obviously, Gareth Southgate's already spoken about him, you know, like dropping his name in the press conference as an option,
01:09 sort of like for the midfield for the future. I mean, that's going to do wonders for his confidence, not that he's short of confidence anyway.
01:14 And Leeds have got a hugely, hugely exciting talent there. You know, a real one off. There's no doubt about it.
01:20 Matteo Joseph in his own right is a very, very talented young player, obviously scoring on his second outing for Spain under 21s.
01:25 He's an interesting one that he basically had the choice of England or Spain, essentially internationally.
01:30 And, you know, sort of a few raised eyebrows when he went with Spain. But I mean, he's probably thinking, well, I might make more of an impact there.
01:36 That's not to belittle Spain, obviously, you know, in terms of a huge nation. And straight away, he's kind of improved, right?
01:41 Really scoring straight away on his second game and mad celebrations from him there, as you can imagine.
01:46 That was a huge moment for him. And Willy Nonso is almost like the forgotten one, I suppose, at that level,
01:50 because obviously he's been established for so long or seems so long at Leeds that you almost forget how young he is.
01:55 And the fact is, he's 20, Joseph's 20 and Archie's obviously 18. So, I mean, all three very, very young.
02:00 But Nonso at the moment in the Italy under 21 squad, but obviously producing the goods for them with an assist the same night as Joseph got his goal.
02:08 And great, got his assist, as I say, at Leeds United. Hat-trick of impacts at under 21 level.
02:13 And all three hugely exciting talents. As I say, you forget how young Nonso is. So that's very, very exciting in its own right.
02:20 And yeah, I mean, the future is extremely bright. I mean, obviously, they're the three that are coming through at the moment.
02:25 But the thing is, as you look at Leeds and obviously the academy, they've got great young players coming through as well.
02:29 I mean, we don't need to overhype them on here by giving names, but so much one of them might be related to Archie Gray.
02:35 We'll see what happens in the future there. But I'm not going to start mentioning names about his younger brother just yet.
02:40 But there's no doubt there are other ones coming through. They are the three that are setting the example at the moment.
02:45 I mean, obviously, Nonso and Archie are first teamers already. You know, you sort of play them every week pretty much.
02:51 Obviously, you know, Nonso, it's a bit difficult because obviously you've got the winger situation where you can't play all of the wingers.