Leeds United boss Marcelo Bielsa should reunite with Chelsea and Belgium star Michy Batshuayi this summer amid some recent transfer claims.

What's the story?

According to recent reports from The Telegraph, Bielsa is keen on luring Batshuayi to Elland Road this summer, with the Belgium international spending last season on loan at fellow Premier League side Crystal Palace.

And now, speaking exclusively to This is Futbol, Carlton Palmer has dropped his verdict on the Whites pursuing a move for a player Bielsa has worked with before at French side Marseille.

He said: "Well he knows him, doesn’t he? Managers generally like to work with players they know, players like to go work for managers they know because they get the best out of them.

"Listen, Bielsa will be looking at that and thinking if he can get him in, it’d be a decent addition to the squad because that’s what you need. I think Bielsa will be interested. We’ll just have to wait and see."

Bielsa could transform him

Lauded as a "real goal-scorer" by former Borussia Dortmund boss, Peter Stoger, the £9m-rated Batshuayi has had the experience of working under Bielsa while at Marseille, and though he has since admitted it was a tough period for him, it's something he claims has been invaluable to his development.

He said: "But looking back, I tell myself he knew who to do this with. Some needed this support. Me, he understood my personality, he knew that I could draw on my resources.

"I’ll tell you something. One day he told me something shocking. For several months, he hardly spoke to me. And the time he came to talk to me, he just said, ‘When you go out of here, you’re gonna go for 40 million’. He just told me that. In my head, I said to myself, ‘But he’s crazy’. In the end, he was right."

And, after hearing about the links to Batshuayi, David Norris also pointed to Batshuayi's previous relationship with the Leeds boss as something that makes it a really good move for Leeds.

He said: "If they had a good relationship before and then he moved on because it was for a better move, then managers and players normally have a good relationship.

"He is proven but he just hasn't played enough games at Chelsea. He'd be coming from a big club who have got a lot of money and are doing things so, I think on paper that's a good signing."

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Given that the "powerful" Batshuayi enjoyed some of his best form in football under Bielsa - he scored ten goals in 29 games for the Argentine - the Leeds boss would feel confident of transforming his career once again, and helping him realise the kind of quality that eventually earned him a move to Chelsea in the first place.

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