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Improving Rutter still remains a work in progress

Improving Rutter

Chris Dunlavy
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

Nobody has benefited more from Leeds’ relegation than Georginio Rutter.
The French forward’s £30m move from Hoffenheim last January was a woefully misjudged piece of business. He was young. He was raw. He was drastically out of his depth in the Premier League and the absolute last player a team fighting relegation required.
The 21-year-old is a street footballer in the body of a heavyweight boxer, a mixture of bulldozer and ballerina whose first instinct is to forge a direct path to goal.
It’s high risk, high reward, as Leeds’ 3-1 win over Leicester l...

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