{"id":331730,"date":"2025-08-09T23:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/331730\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T23:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:32:15","slug":"leeds-united-talent-can-handle-the-ball-admits-club-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/331730\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United Talent &#8216;Can Handle The Ball&#8217; Admits Club Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"> George Wood\/Getty Images <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-quote\" style=\"display: block; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin: 30px 0px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;\">Doncaster Rovers boss Grant McCann thinks that <a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/leeds-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds United<\/a> youngster Charlie Crew is a special talent who has energy and knows how to handle the\u00a0 ball.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leeds brought in Crew from Cardiff City in 2022 and last season he made one appearance, before being sent to Doncaster on a loan stint for the second half of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crew impressed Doncaster boss McCann during his loan spell, <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/04\/20\/leeds-united-out-on-loan-talent-dubbed-very-very-good-by-impressed-boss\/678529\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as he praised him as \u2018a very good player\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Leeds youngster made 13 appearances for McCann\u2019s side last season and the Whites have decided to send him back on loan to Doncaster to help him continue his development.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McCann <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/08\/06\/beat-off-big-clubs-for-leeds-united-talent-boss-delights-at-loan\/690361\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admitted that he is delighted to have Crew back at Doncaster<\/a> and hailed him as a player with a special talent.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Wales_Charlie_Crew_620_ofg.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Doncaster boss revealed that Crew reminded him of how good a player he is in recent training sessions and added that the Leeds star is very energetic and good with the ball.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McCann also added that Leeds were impressed with Crew\u2019s development when he went back to Elland Road and revealed that they were always in touch with the player, his agent and the now Premier League outfit.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<tr>\nClub<br \/>\nYears<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Leeds United<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">2024-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Doncaster Rovers (loan)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">2025-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Charlie Crew\u2019s career history<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharlie is someone we have been in contact with, obviously, since he left last season and contact with Leeds, his agents\u201d, McCann told <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/footballheaven\/status\/1953450402948452400\">BBC Radio Sheffield<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is obviously a special talent, as we all know.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Leeds_Daniel_Farke13_620_ofg.webp.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeeing him the last couple of days in training reminds us how good he is, how much energy he has got and how he can handle the ball, so I am really pleased to have him back.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knows us, we know him and he knows the environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased that Leeds have trusted us again with his development.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were impressed when he went back to Leeds in the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McCann previously admitted that <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/08\/06\/beat-off-big-clubs-for-leeds-united-talent-boss-delights-at-loan\/690361\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several clubs were in for Crew\u2019s signature<\/a>, but Doncaster beat them to land him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crew played 62 minutes of Doncaster\u2019s 2-1 win in <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/league-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">League One<\/a> over Mansfield on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Wood\/Getty Images \u00a0 Doncaster Rovers boss Grant McCann thinks that Leeds United youngster Charlie Crew is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-331730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115001422375134832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}