LEEDS are reportedly on the verge of signing Hoffenheim striker Georginio Rutter for a club record fee.
The French star is set to move to Elland Road for a fee of £24.8million with add-ons that could take the price up to £35m.
Leeds are supposedly in the process of finalising the transfer with the Bundesliga club.
Rutter is on his way to Yorkshire for a medical ahead of signing a long-term contract at Elland Road, claims journalist Fabrizio Romano.
Current forward Patrick Bamford is injury prone and has not scored in ten games this term.
Therefore, manager Jesse Marsch has been desperate to bolster his attacking options as he aims to keep his side in the Premier League.
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Rutter is a future star, impressing in Germany over the last two seasons.
The 20-year-old found the back of the net eight times in 33 league games in the previous campaign, regularly appearing off the substitutes bench.
This season he has scored twice in 15 appearances, being named in the starting line-up more frequently on 11 occasions.
If Rutter completes his move to Leeds, he would become the club’s most expensive ever transfer.
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It would overtake the current record held by Rodrigo’s £27m switch from Valencia in the summer of 2020.
Leeds were rumoured to be keen on Blackburn’s Ben Brereton Diaz and Coventry’s Viktor Gyokeres if the deal for Rutter fell through.
He will become Marsch’s second signing of the January window after buying Maximilian Wober from RB Salzburg.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
