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Sport 21-12-2000
Leeds Sign Keane On £12m Promise
who: Leeds United
what: Sign Robbie Keane on loan till end of season
where: Elland Road, LEEDS
when: Yesterday
snippet: "Leeds yesterday brought Robbie Keane`s unhappy Italian sojourn to an end, for a while at least," reports The Independent, "when they signed the Internazionale striker on loan until the end of the season".
Leeds United have the option to buy the 20-year-old Irish international, who left Coventry for the continent last summer but has struggled to get a first team game, for £12 million at the end of the season.
"Leeds were just one of a handful of top Premier League sides itching to bring Keane back to England," says The Sun`s Michael Morgan. "But [manager David] O`Leary and his chairman Peter Ridsdale moved swiftly to beat off competition from Liverpool, Newcastle, Sunderland, West Ham, Chelsea and Aston Villa."
"I`m delighted with this deal," said Ridsdale, yesterday. "Yet again we have signed somebody who is in the mould of what we are trying to build at Elland Road - a young, full international whose best years are ahead of him. He is someone we see being with us for the next five years, not the next five months." [... more]
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