Leeds United 1-3 Manchester City highlights: Whites defeated by Haaland double

Kalvin was such a good player but for me he was a really likeable, heartwarming person to have around the team. He got along with everybody here, with the older players, as well was the younger players, with me as well as the academy coaches. He just had a way of when he walked around this building he made everybody feel at home. If you were to ask me what was the hardest part of replacing Kalvin, it was a little bit of that – making sure that we still had the feeling of what Leeds United is, what it means to be from Leeds, what the history of the club means, and that human element of what we are that we still stayed strong with that. That is why in the last transfer window we looked at the quality of people and character that we brought in here as much as what we thought of from their playing perspective. And I think we’ve replaced that with really good people. We still miss Kalvin

Erling was one that we thought could have a big impact and a breakout moment. He went to the U20 World Cup, in one game he scored nine goals against Honduras. We usually give three weeks to every player after an international tournament but he wanted to come back after 10 days and be at the first day of training. I even talked to him about was he sure about that, the break might be useful, and he insisted he wanted to come back and get to work. I would say within two days I thought, ‘all right, this looks a little bit different than most players’. and by the way, there was an incredible group of young players that had been bench players or out on loan. I was excited about the possibilities but after a few days you saw it come together and you knew that we could be good and that Erling could be special.