Due to Crysencio Summerville’s fantastic play for Leeds United in the Championship this year, other elite clubs in Europe have expressed interest in signing him.
In order to achieve this, TEAMtalk examines six teams that have all been connected to the recently named Championship Player of the Season, who will not play in the English football second division next season regardless of what happens with Leeds.
The 2020 €1.5 million signing by the Feyenoord youth product saw him join Leeds’ youth team and make sporadic appearances for the first team. He started to play more and showed promise on the team during the 2022–2023 season.
Summerville scored goals in back-to-back games against Fulham, Liverpool, Bournemouth, and Tottenham during a four-game scoring run. The final three all lasted longer than ninety minutes, and the goals from Bournemouth and Liverpool won the games. Early indications that this player has what it takes to step up and lead his team when the chips are down.
Since then, he has been the first name on the squad sheet in the 2023–2024 Championship season, with 17 goals and 8 assists in 40 appearances for Leeds. He has, in fact, performed at a far higher level, and it is obvious that he is too skilled for the Championship.
a winger who is strong, works hard on defense, and is dangerous during transitions. He also has excellent ball striking, close control, and two-way dribbling ability. He has won Leeds games so many times this season with late goals. Summerville has a great attitude, which is what makes him a very dangerous player and gets him results when his team most needs him.
Numerous teams are showing interest in the Leeds winger as he makes waves in the Championship.
These are the six primary teams hoping to sign him in the next summer.
North London club Tottenham This season, Tottenham has improved under new manager Ange Postecoglou, although they still want additional reinforcements.
Because of the way Postecoglou plays, their wingers are able to score goals and take on players on their own. But the only true winger in their current lineup is Kulusevski, and even he would probably be better off playing inside.
Because he prefers to have his greatest finisher there and his outlets wide, Ange has frequently chosen to play Son centrally. In January, Tottenham attempted to sign Club Brugge winger Antonio Nusa, but the deal fell through.
Summerville would be a solid option to fulfil this role and could really raise the levels of the Tottenham attack.
Aston Villa
Unai Emery has progressed Aston Villa a lot since he’s joined the club. Not only are they in the Europa Conference League quarter finals but they’re still in the hunt for the top four in the Premier League. Villa have an exciting attack who love to play on transitions. The likes of Moussa Diaby, Leon Bailey, Ollie Watkins, Jhon Duran, Mogan Rogers, Nicolo Zaniolo and Jacob Ramsey are all packed with pace, dynamism, and composure in front of goal. To add to that, they all work hard off the ball to press from the front and track back defensively.
Summerville fits in perfectly with the profiles they have in their attack. He could play either wing or behind Watkins as a second striker. The main issue with this move from his point of view is the fact they have so many options already, he wouldn’t be first choice. Villa also have John McGinn and Emi Buendia who play wide too. Unai Emery tends to play with only one out and out ‘winger’ and one midfielder playing wide so there would be a lot less chances for Summerville to start.
Newcastle United
Newcastle United have struggled this season to manage both the Premier League and Champions League and stay competitive with higher expectations from fans and the media.
There’s a need for more depth in many positions and one of those is on the wings. Anthony Gordon has been their best winger this season and Harvey Barnes has had some good games but is less consistent. Miguel Almiron has been inconsistent for Newcastle and Jacob Murphy is good, but upgradable.
The addition of Crysencio Summerville would be an addition of some real quality in the final third and he could cover both wings. From his point of view, he’s also more likely to start there than Villa. Summerville would start over Murphy or Almiron but then again, he’s best on the left side where they already have both Gordon and Barnes.
Bayer Leverkusen
Leeds United duo Crysencio Summerville and Wilfried Gnonto
Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen are Bundesliga champions. Everything about them has been super impressive this season. Full of quality players, such a great mentality throughout the team to deliver when it matters, to come back into games.
Alonso’s side are unbeaten this season and after winning the Bundesliga, they’re still in the DFB Pokal final and the Europa League quarter-finals after they won the first leg against West Ham 2-0. Indeed, they’re still on for a treble.
Alonso has also announced that he’s staying next season and they’re probably looking to bolster the squad to continue to challenge next season.
Alonso’s team play with a 3-4-2-1 set-up where they play two 10’s behind the striker. Players including Wirtz, Hofmann, Adli, Tella, Hlozek all play in these ‘10’ positions where they’re inside forwards who come inside to create and drift in the pockets between the defence and midfield making runs into the box.
Summerville could be perfect for this role to lift the squad and add some more goal-scoring threat to the team.
Leverkusen have also bought from the Championship recently after signing Nathan Tella from Southampton in the summer due to his solid season for 2022/23 Championship-winning Burnley.
Liverpool
Liverpool are likely to go through a big turnover in players due to the outgoing Jurgen Klopp and the incoming Ruben Amorim – if reports ring trie.
Although the managers have some similarities, they also have differences in styles. But also, some of the players may be tempted to leave now that the Klopp era has come to an end.
Wingers Diaz and Salah have been linked with moves away whilst Jota, Elliott and Gakpo aren’t 1v1 specialists. If any of them leave, Liverpool will be in need of further additions on the wings.
Summerville would be able to replace Diaz well if he was to go or be a backup/rotation for him. In terms of his profile, Summerville is very similar to Diaz and would fit in perfectly at Liverpool.
Chelsea
Chelsea have made a lot of signings, but many have so far struggled to make a big impact.
On the wings the likes of Mudryk, Sterling, Madueke have all been so inconsistent and it’s only really Cole Palmer who’s been really impressive for them throughout the whole season.
With Palmer playing on the right side or even occasionally centrally, this still leaves the left wing up for grabs. If Chelsea decide to part ways with either of Sterling or Mudryk then that LW position could be Summerville’s.
Chelsea have been looking at a lot of options to sign for the left-wing position so maybe they’ll turn to Summerville.
