Mourinho continues to strengthen himself at zero cost

José Mourinho already has his third reinforcement for next season. After joining the Ivorian central defender Evan Ndicka (Eintracht Frankfurt) and Algerian midfielder Houssem Aouar (Lyon), both without a contract, Rome now announced the arrival of Danish right-back Rasmus Kristensen until June 2024 on loan from Leeds, who were relegated from the Premier League in May. Three incorporations without issuing a single euro.

Kristensen is the second defender Leeds have loaned to Roma in recent days Madrid centre-back Diego Llorente has seen his assignment renewed which led him to play for the ‘giallorosso’ team in the second half of last season.

Kristensen, 26, trained at Midtjylland in his home country and was signed by Ajax in January 2018 before joining Salzburg in July 2019 and moving to Leeds in the summer. With the ‘whites’ he played 30 games and scored three goals.

Headline the World Cup in Qatar

Starting all three matches for the Danish team at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Kristensen admitted in his transfer statement that “Roma’s successes in Europe in recent years made me want to play for the club it’s more. I can’t wait until I’m here every day.”

Since Mourinho arrived in 2021, Roma won the Conference League in 2022 and in May lost the Europa League final on penalties against Seville. They finished Serie A in sixth place and will once again participate in the Europa League.

Eighth drop in Leeds

For his part, Kristensen’s departure was Leeds’ eighth defeat since their relegation. The displaced have also left Rodrigo Moreno (Al Rayyan from Qatar) and Tyler Roberts (Birmingham), Robin Koch (Eintracht Frankfurt) and Brendan Aaronson (Union Berlin) on loanwhile weston mckennie returned to Juventus after his loan and is the goalkeeper of Madrid Joel Robles and Adam Forshaw Their contracts have expired.