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| Leeds United sign Tommaso Bianchi and Souleymane Doukara | Leeds United sign Tommaso Bianchi and Souleymane Doukara |
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| Leeds United have signed the midfielder Tommaso Bianchi and striker Souleymane Doukara as part of the continuing plans of Massimo Cellino, the club’s controversial new Italian owner, to reshape the club. | Leeds United have signed the midfielder Tommaso Bianchi and striker Souleymane Doukara as part of the continuing plans of Massimo Cellino, the club’s controversial new Italian owner, to reshape the club. |
| Bianchi, who spent last season on loan at the Serie B team Modena, has signed from the Serie A strugglers Sassualo on a four-year deal. | Bianchi, who spent last season on loan at the Serie B team Modena, has signed from the Serie A strugglers Sassualo on a four-year deal. |
| David Hockaday, the Leeds head coach, believes the 25-year-old’s versatility will benefit the club. He said of Bianchi: “He can play on the left, right or in the No10 position and he can score goals.” | David Hockaday, the Leeds head coach, believes the 25-year-old’s versatility will benefit the club. He said of Bianchi: “He can play on the left, right or in the No10 position and he can score goals.” |
| Doukara, who scored six goals for the Serie B side Juve Stabia last season, joins from Catania on a season-long loan. The 22-year-old Senegalese forward has been brought in as a partial replacement for last season’s leading scorer Ross McCormack, sold by Leeds to Fulham for a fee understood to be £11m. | Doukara, who scored six goals for the Serie B side Juve Stabia last season, joins from Catania on a season-long loan. The 22-year-old Senegalese forward has been brought in as a partial replacement for last season’s leading scorer Ross McCormack, sold by Leeds to Fulham for a fee understood to be £11m. |
| “He is a big, powerful and fast player with a hunger to succeed. He is exactly what we need at the club,” said Hockaday. | “He is a big, powerful and fast player with a hunger to succeed. He is exactly what we need at the club,” said Hockaday. |
| The arrivals of Bianchi and Doukara follow the signing of goalkeepers Marco Silvestri and Stuart Taylor, and the Swiss defender Jonathan Rossini is also reportedly on the verge of joining Leeds on loan from Sassualo. | |
| While Cellino makes changes to his first team, he has also been making alterations to the club’s academy with the coaches Leigh Bromby and Richard Naylor, both part of Leeds’s promotion-winning side in 2010, leaving their posts. | While Cellino makes changes to his first team, he has also been making alterations to the club’s academy with the coaches Leigh Bromby and Richard Naylor, both part of Leeds’s promotion-winning side in 2010, leaving their posts. |
| The former Sheffield Wednesday striker Benito Carbone is working in an unpaid role at the academy of the Championship club. | The former Sheffield Wednesday striker Benito Carbone is working in an unpaid role at the academy of the Championship club. |