{"id":597709,"date":"2021-07-31T08:57:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T12:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=597709"},"modified":"2021-07-31T08:57:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T12:57:07","slug":"kristoffer-klaesson-completes-leeds-united-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/31\/kristoffer-klaesson-completes-leeds-united-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristoffer Klaesson Completes Leeds United Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/29\/leeds-united-kristoffer-klaesson-2\/\" target=\"_self\">Leeds United<\/a> have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LUFC\/status\/1421380124935655427\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">officially signed<\/a> Kristoffer Klaesson from Valrenga. The Norweigian U21 international is the sixth player to join Leeds in this transfer window.<\/p>\n<h2>Leeds United Sign Kristoffer Klaesson<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">\ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WelcomeKristoffer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WelcomeKristoffer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pvv2pMR1Jq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Pvv2pMR1Jq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Leeds United (@LUFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LUFC\/status\/1421380124935655427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Klaesson to Provide Competition for Meslier<\/h3>\n<p>Leeds United have signed 20-year old goalkeeper Kristoffer Klaesson from Valrenga. The goalkeeper penned a four-year contract with the peacocks, that could see him remain at Elland Road until 2025. The clubs have not yet disclosed the transfer fee but, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilHay_\/status\/1421380124272959489\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phil Hay of The Athletic<\/a>, Leeds United have paid in excess of \u00a31 million for the service of the shot-stopper.<\/p>\n<p>The Norweigian joins the club almost two years after Leeds first made contact with Valerenga regarding a potential move for the goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p>Kristoffer Klaesson will be the 70th Norweigian to play in the Premier League. He will also be the fifth Norweigian, and first since Erik Bakke in 2004, to play for Leeds in England\u2019s top flight.<\/p>\n<h3>Valerenga Congratules Klaesson on his Move to Premier League<\/h3>\n<p>Klaesson came up through Valrenga&#8217;s youth system and made his senior debut for the club in 2018. The goalkeeper enjoyed a brilliant breakout season and established himself as the club&#8217;s first-choice shot-stopper last year. Since his debut, Klaesson has made 58 appearances for the Norweigian side.<\/p>\n<p>His former side had a heart whelming message for their academy product following his move. Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vif-fotball.no\/nyheter\/kristoffer-klaesson-solgt-til-leeds-united\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">club&#8217;s website<\/a>, Valrenga Director of Football Jorgen Ingebrigtsen said: &#8220;It is with pride and joy that we send Kristoffer all the way to the top of the football world.\u00a0There are of course many who should be praised for the development work that has been done in the club, both academia and A-team, but perhaps most of all we must praise Kristoffer himself for a great progress in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeeds contacted me regarding Kristoffer for the first time in 2019, so in other words this has been a long process.\u00a0I know how much they have given in the agreement with us and the player, and I feel confident that his development will be a priority in the coming years. Good luck on the next adventure.\u00a0We will cheer from Intility Arena, and then we will see each other again in a few years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"blY0p3zlRlhHl8ZGeikn7w\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1279523028\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'blY0p3zlRlhHl8ZGeikn7w',sig:'sTlluxHGFPtnKOnfiXMTAg-zwQXuk3OUNiZT5DnSLBA=',w:'594px',h:'401px',items:'1279523028',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds United have officially signed Kristoffer Klaesson from Valrenga. The Norweigian U21 international is the sixth player to join Leeds in this transfer window. Leeds United Sign Kristoffer Klaesson \ud83d\ude4c #WelcomeKristoffer pic.twitter.com\/Pvv2pMR1Jq \u2014 Leeds United (@LUFC) July 31, 2021 Klaesson to Provide Competition for Meslier Leeds United have signed 20-year old goalkeeper Kristoffer Klaesson from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3542,"featured_media":597732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6443,28,1],"tags":[8764],"class_list":["post-597709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-leeds-united","category-transfers","category-uncategorized","tag-kristoffer-klaesson"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}