Leeds chief exec Angus Kinnear has detailed how they signed Willy Gnonto.
Leeds swooped for FC Zurich's Gnonto in final days of the summer market.
He said in his match programme notes for tomorrow: “It seems like an eternity since the transfer window closed but, we should still belatedly welcome Willy Gnonto, our ninth summer signing, to the club and wish him the best of luck for his Leeds United career. Willy is a player who, it was originally planned, would join us in one of the next two transfer windows.
“Victor and his team had spent several months tracking the player and meeting him and his family – part of our process to optimise the chances of a player fitting our requirements and being successful. Such groundwork made the decision to accelerate his move, albeit at the last moment, more compelling and straightforward.
“Willy, already Italy's youngest ever international goalscorer, became only the third Italian player to make three international starts before the age of 19, playing his part in a busy international break with Leeds United being represented across the globe."