Leeds United boss Jesse Marsch admits he has big plans for goalkeeper Ilan Meslier.
Marsch is also full of praise for the influence of goalkeeper coach Marcos Abad on the France U21 international.
"First of all, Illan's talent is massive," he said. “He is a young goalkeeper that is as good as any young goalkeeper I have ever seen.
“That's really exciting. Then he has a really good mentality, he wants to work, he wants to learn and he wants to improve.
“Marcos has done a very good job with him as a mentor and a teacher. So they have a good relationship and, for me, how I work, I can't go through technically and tactically every detail for a goalkeeper like goalkeeper coaches can.
“The way I work is I trust the goalkeeper coach a lot to help the player adapt to the things I want. Certainly, being the last defender is always really important because we like to play very aggressively with our backline.
“Then what I can do with my experiences is I can see how to help a goalkeeper with his mentality, his decision making. When he has the ball in his hands, he is the quarterback of that situation and he understands what type of rhythm of play we want from the match.
“I'll talk more about those types of things than I will, 'did he move one step to the left, did he move one step to the right', that I'm not as good at evaluating, but the work Marcos and I have done together with the staff has been quite good and then the work we've had with the goalkeeper group has also been very good."
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