Our lack of goal scorers was a key reason why we failed to secure promotion last season, and it seems Leeds chiefs are searching for a new striker in Francesco Totti.
The iconic AS Roma hitman retired from the game in the summer of 2017 and soon took up a directors role at the Stadio Olimpico, but parted ways with the Giallorossi earlier this year in an unceremonious move by the Rome outfit.
His former teammate Marco Borriello has now claimed to Sky Sports Italia, via Fox Sports, that Totti has been given the chance to dust off his boots once again, as the President of a Championship team has shown a willingness to reignite the 42-year-old’s career.
“Totti is receiving proposals even now, even to return to play,” he said. “I know that a president of a Championship team has proposed him to come back from [his holiday in] Ibiza to play, but he has now stopped.”
Borriello went on to claim that it was not Andrea Radrizzani that had put the offer to Totti, although the way he spoke gave Fox Sports and many others reason to believe that it was indeed the Whites owner behind the move.
It would certainly be an eyebrow-raising capture if Radrizzani is able to pull off the unlikeliest of swoops for the one-club man, who enjoyed a 24-year senior career at the Stadio Olimpico before his retirement.
In that time, Totti saw his market value reach the heights of £36million in April 2007, as he played out a career which featured 307 goals in 785 games and 129 assists.
His market value sat at £900,000 for the five years which led up to his retirement, however, even though he only ever played fewer than 10 games in a Serie A campaign during the first two seasons of his professional career, which were also the only terms where he failed to find the back of the net.
Regardless, a move for the 42-year-old former centre-forward would be preposterous and an idea likely better forgotten than thought about.