Leeds United have made some important blunders within the switch market of their not-so-distant previous, forking out colossal sums of cash to then sadly be greeted with a dud when he arrives in West Yorkshire.

The circus that was Massimo Cellino’s time proudly owning the Whites was infamous for misfire after misfire when a switch window opened, with notable flops corresponding to Giuseppe Bellusci and Mirco Antenucci amongst others usually becoming a member of from Cellino’s native Italy who would by no means settle or reach England.

Away from the laughable nature of Cellino’s time proudly owning the Championship giants, one other of Leeds’ now ex-owners in Andrea Radrizzani was additionally at fault for lots of failures available in the market when he was partly answerable for offers out and in of the membership, together with this dud becoming a member of from the Netherlands again in 2017.

Jay-Roy Grot’s time at Leeds

Jay-Roy Grot would be part of the ranks at Elland Highway seven years in the past as a left-field buy, coming into the constructing as a relative unknown entity from Dutch second-division outfit NEC Nijmegen.

It isn’t as if Grot was setting the world alight within the Netherlands both, managing a lacklustre six objectives for his former facet from 35 video games, earlier than embarking on a brand new journey transferring to the powerful calls for of the EFL.

He would actually wrestle getting on top of things with what was anticipated of him in a Leeds shirt, unable to place his intimidating 6 foot 4 body to good use within the second tier, with just one meagre aim coming his means from 21 Whites appearances.

Assessing his dire debut season located at Leeds, when glancing at WhoScored numbers from the 2017/18 marketing campaign for the Dutchman, Grot would are available as having the worst common score within the division per conflict, standing at a really low 6.13/10.

As may be seen wanting on the desk above, Grot critically underwhelmed throughout his debut season, resulting in Leeds promoting on their dreadful purchase to German outfit VfL Osnabrück in 2021.

It isn’t as if Grot has managed to choose up the items since having his repute broken at Elland Highway, with the now 26-year-old attacker enjoying out in Japan and struggling as soon as extra.

Grot’s struggles since leaving Leeds

The one-time NEC ahead hasn’t been capable of finding a set residence since his whirlwind stint in England, enjoying all throughout the globe in Germany, Denmark and now all the way in which out in Japan with Kashiwa Reysol.

Grot hasn’t managed to grow to be the potent goalscorer his Tokyo-based facet would have needed him to be both, with solely three strikes registered from 26 video games thus far pulling on a Reysol strip.

Comical misses just like the one above, after he had managed to capitalise on an error by the opposition goalkeeper, have not precisely helped his trigger at Reysol, as his woes at Leeds proceed to hang-out him to this present day.

Leeds supporters within the right here and now will hope purchases from Europe this window within the type of Largie Ramazani and Ao Tanaka, to call just a few, aren’t immortalised down the road as folding of their new location like Grot, however seen as an alternative as stellar new acquisitions.

No matter what occurs now with this new batch of gamers, Grot is certainly considered as one of many worst gamers in latest reminiscence to put on Leeds white, and a substantial stain on Radrizzani’s bumpy time on the membership.