Spain international center-back Diego Llorente extends contract with Leeds United..
2022-12-24 16:59Leeds United announced on their official website on Friday that the club has extened the contract of Spain international centre-back Diego Llorente.
According to the official statement of Leeds United, Llorente has signed on a further two-year deal with the club, and his contract will now runs until the summer of 2026.
After completing his contract renewal procedures, Llorente said on the Leeds United official website: "This is a beautiful and exciting moment for me."
"It's an opportunity for me to keep helping the club, I've been here for two years and it's been a happy time for me."
"I think I'm a better player now, the Premier League is a difficult league but it's helped me improved and I'm sure I can continue to improve and help my team-mates."
"When I came here I didn't have any expectations, I just wanted to play and show what I could do, but when you see the atmosphere at Elland Road, it was a big surprise for me , because I've never experienced anything like this before."
"I think Leeds United can help me grow in football and I feel like I can help the club get better."
"Now I want to keep working hard every day in training and get opportunities to play in games, we have a lot of games in the next two weeks and everyone gets an opportunity to play, so I want to help the team and keep working hard."
"We've got a lot of youngsters here with potential and experienced youngsters like me, and that combination can improve our competitiveness level very well."
The 29-year-old Llorente was born in Madrid on August 16, 1993. He is 1.86 meters tall and primarily plays as a center-back, but he can also be a right-back or a defensive midfielder.
Llorente joined the Real Madrid youth academy at the age of 8 and completed his Real Madrid first-team debut in June 2013.
In the summer of 2015, Llorente spent a season on-loan with Rayo Vallecano, and then in the summer of 2016 joined Malaga on a season-long loan.
After returning to the club in the summer of 2017, Llorente transferred to Real Sociedad for €11 million in July of the same year. During the three years he played for Los Txuri-Urdin, he always won the praise of many media and pundits with his good offensive and defensive displays, and even became a member of the Spain senior national team.
In September 2020, Llorente joined Leeds United for £18 million.
So far, Llorente has played 55 times for the Premier League club in all competitions, scoring 4 goals.
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