In the summer of 2023, Leeds United were forced to wave goodbye to a whole host of players on loan following relegation to the Championship and then this summer, five went out on loan.
Victor Orta’s decision to insert a relegation loan clause saw eight senior players depart temporarily in the summer of 2023. It meant Leeds could not sell them and bring in any cash to spend on new signings.
Since then, four have left permanently and two are back in the Leeds side in the form of Max Wober and Brenden Aaronson. Two though, saw that loan clause become active for a second successive summer.
In the summer, five players left Leeds on loan with two using Orta’s relegation clause. Sam Greenwood, Sonny Perkins and Darko Gyabi joined Championship and League One clubs until the end of the season.
Rasmus Kristensen was one of those two players that could use Orta’s clause again and he joined Robin Koch’s Frankfurt, while Jack Harrison returned to Everton having spent 2023-24 on loan at Goodison Park.
Jack Harrison’s dismal run of form continues at Everton
Leeds fans will know better than most that during the five years Harrison actually spent in the Leeds side, he was a streaky player. Bouts of form where he would score and create regularly, only to then drop off.
Games would go by with Harrison failing to make any kind of difference. That seems to be the issue at Everton, with Harrison now eight months since his last goal against Tottenham in February this year.
It was his only goal in 2024. A run of 21 games without a goal or an assist for Sean Dyche’s side, as he and Everton struggle to find the kind of form necessary that will see them avoid a relegation scrap.
Does Harrison’s loan deal at Everton include a permanent clause?
The chances of Harrison ever actually returning to Leeds and playing for the club that he initially joined in Marcelo Bielsa’s first summer in 2018 is incredibly unlikely, simply because he’s left on loan for two years.
But, Harrison does have a contract at Leeds until the summer of 2028. Harrison has no permanent clause in his Everton loan as things stand, and his form is hardly that impressive or enough to tempt Everton.
The chances are, if things continue the way they have started this season, that Harrison will return to Leeds next summer and The Whites will have to find a buyer for the winger or face re-integrating him.
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