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He's being linked with Liverpool and Chelsea, but Crysencio Summerville insists he wants to star in the Premier League with Leeds.
Summerville is the hottest talent in the Championship and Leeds’ top scorer has bagged 21 goals and 10 assists to fire them to Sunday’s play-off final at Wembley against Southampton. The £35million-rated attacker is ignoring the rampant speculation over his future and says he is just focused on winning.
He has heard all about Leeds reaching the 2001 Champions League semi-finals - six months before he was born - and wants to relive those days with Daniel Farke’s side.
Summerville, 22, has two years left on his Elland Road deal and said: “If I’m honest with you, I don’t really know the clubs who are linked with me, I’m just busy with the season.
“Now it’s a big week with the final at Wembley, we can return to the Premier League, so that’s my focus. I know all about Leeds playing in the Champions League and I wasn’t even born then!
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“It’s nice to hear all those stories and I want to bring those days back, you know, because we have a lot of potential here. To play in the Champions League would be great, it would be massive.
“Of course, we can do that at Leeds. If you believe, you can achieve everything. So I think the first thing is everyone has to believe on Sunday that we can do it, we will do it.
“Then if we get promoted to the Premier League, we have to have the same belief again.”
Summerville has shone at Elland Road this season (PA)Summerville, who cost Leeds just £1.3million as an 18-year-old four years ago, insists he can improve on his fantastic season. He studies flair players like Neymar, Eden Hazard and Ronaldinho and says he practises his tricks in training before trying them in matches.
“I’m far from perfect,” said the Holland Under-21 star. “It’s been a good season, very good. “I’m happy and proud of what I’ve done this season, but I feel like there’s always room for improvement. Yeah, I will be better for sure. I’m just rising.
“I’ve always watched players like Neymar, Eden Hazard, Ronaldinho, people like this. I like the flair in the game, how they take people on. Lately I’ve watched Vinicius Junior as well, he’s really good. I try to do it first in training and once I’ve got a trick under my belt, I just try it in matches.
“It helps to watch other players because you can see what you already have and what you need to be better.” Summerville isn’t bothered by Leeds miserable play-off record and they have failed in their five previous attempts, dating back to 1987.
Can Summerville fires Leeds to the Premier League at Wembley? (Greig Cowie/REX/Shutterstock)Leeds were not held back by this when they smashed Norwich 4-0 last Thursday in the semi-final second leg and Summerville says they want to write a new chapter in the club’s history.
“This is us now,” he said. “We’re a new team, with a different manager and everything. I hope we can make our own history.
“We went down last season, it was devastating, so to return straightaway back to the Premier League would be massive. The fans deserve it, everyone deserves it.”
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