Leeds United suffered play-off final heartache when they were beaten 1-0 by Southampton at Wembley on Sunday.
There was so much hope and belief from the Leeds fans that they could get promoted back to the Premier League.
But they suffered the worst possible feeling. A defeat at the last hurdle and also the feeling that many of their players didn’t turn up in the play-off final.
One of them included winger Crysencio Summerville, who has been Leeds’ best player this season, and probably one of the best players in the Championship overall.
The 22-year-old netted 19 league goals and supplied nine assists from his 43 league matches.
But from the off, Summerville looked off-colour and it didn’t help that he was booked early on in the game because he then didn’t play with that aggression with or without the ball.
The on-field referee booked the Leeds superstar after 43 minutes for seemingly lunging into a tackle in Southampton’s box.
It was a nothing challenge, but it somehow received a foul to the annoyance of Jon Newsome who labelled it ‘pathetic’, as he told BBC Sport.
Neil Warnock agreed during his punditry stint on Sky and he felt that he simply ’shouldn’t have been’ a yellow.
Crysencio Summerville and Leeds United lose the play-off final
“That’s pathetic,” responded Newsome. “All Crysencio Summerville has done is slide in and try to protect the ball. He’s not done anything.”
Neil Warnock added at HT on Sky Sports (26/05/24): “There are a couple of bookings that I think shouldn’t have been bookings. I thought early on, the lad who destroyed Brooks. I thought that should have been a certain yellow card.”
Crysencio Summerville to leave Leeds United?
You worry for Leeds now. They are sitting in England’s second tier, with players that are still closer to Premier League wages than Championship ones.
Not only that, a host of players are going to return from their loan spells in the summer. The squad is going to be bloated for the wrong reasons.
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Leeds will also probably need to raise money. That’s where you look towards someone like Summerville because he is their biggest asset.
Sources have already told HITC that there is Premier League interest in his services and it wouldn’t be a surprise if that interest increases now that Leeds will remain in England’s second tier for another campaign.
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