{"id":612951,"date":"2022-05-23T08:43:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T12:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=612951"},"modified":"2022-05-23T08:43:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T12:43:25","slug":"premier-league-side-signing-brenden-aaronson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/23\/premier-league-side-signing-brenden-aaronson\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League Side Close to Signing Midfielder Brenden Aaronson From Red Bull Salzburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Fabrizio Romano, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/04\/27\/manchester-united-leeds-united-midfielder\/\" target=\"_self\">Leeds United<\/a> are reportedly close to signing Red Bull Salzburg midfielder Brenden Aaronson for a fee of around \u00a328 million.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Romano reports that the American international has already agreed personal terms with the Yorkshire club, who managed to secure their Premier League status for the 2022\/23 season with a 2 &#8211; 1 win against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/04\/19\/newcastle-target-ivan-toney\/\" target=\"_self\">Brentford<\/a> on Sunday, May 22.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Red Bull Salzburg Midfielder Brenden Aaronson Close to Joining Leeds United<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Leeds are closing on Brenden Aaronson deal, here we go soon. Full agreement reached with RB Salzburg and paperworks to be prepared soon, deal worth \u00a328m as reported yesterday. \u26aa\ufe0f\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#LUFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aaronson has already agreed personal terms with Leeds as he wanted Premier League move. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NAp9QdytFw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/NAp9QdytFw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1528538142420127747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Months in the Making<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s no secret that Leeds have been long-time admirers of Aaronson, as the club had <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/21\/leeds-increase-bid-salzburg-aaronson\/\" target=\"_self\">multiple bids<\/a> for the player rejected by Salzburg in the January transfer window. However, now that Leeds have secured their Premier League status, albeit in dramatic fashion, it looks like they will finally get their man.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aaronson played under Leeds boss Jesse Marsch for the 2020\/21 season when he managed Salzburg. Therefore, Aaronson has familiarity with how Marsch likes his teams to play and will likely be a boost as the manager looks to prepare for his first full season in the Premier League.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The club will be hoping that Marsch can bring out the best in his former player and fellow countryman, as they look to avoid another relegation battle next season.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>What Could Aaronson Bring to Leeds<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aaronson is a versatile player that can line up in central midfield, out on the wing, or, most likely, as an attacking midfielder. Marsch values positional flexibility and versatility in his system, so having players that can play in a number of positions, like Aaronson, is vital to how the team plays.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During their time together in Salzburg, Aaronson and Marsch enjoyed a successful spell together with the club winning the Austrian Bundesliga and Aaronson chipping in with five goals and five assists in 20 games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The energetic attacking midfielder continued that form into the 2021\/22 season, helping Salzburg once again win the Austrian Bundesliga contributing with four goals and four assists in 26 appearances. The 21-year-old is also suited to Marsch\u2019s intense pressing system as he ranks in the 99th percentile of pressures among other attacking midfielders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With reports that star winger <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/03\/23\/leeds-united-raphinha-open-to-barcelona-transfer\/\" target=\"_self\">Raphinha could depart this summer<\/a> and the club struggling with injuries to key players, Leeds will need to look towards strengthening the squad if they don\u2019t want to repeat another relegation battle next season. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Fabrizio Romano, Leeds United are reportedly close to signing Red Bull Salzburg midfielder Brenden Aaronson for a fee of around \u00a328 million.\u00a0 Romano reports that the American international has already agreed personal terms with the Yorkshire club, who managed to secure their Premier League status for the 2022\/23 season with a 2 &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4148,"featured_media":612953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[6443,3,7188],"tags":[9107,8585,1955],"class_list":["post-612951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leeds-united","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-brenden-aaronson","tag-jesse-marsch","tag-red-bull-salzburg"],"modified_by":"Jordan Hackett, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612951","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\/4148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}