NEC Nijmegen have announced the signing of 24-year-old German winger Reagy Baah Ofosu on a free contract. According to an article on Dutch media site Voetbal International (VI), the reason for Ofusu’s arrival is to offset the sale of star winger Anthony Limbombe.

According to NEC’s technical manager Danny Hoekman, the capture of the former SV Grödig player is a welcome one as “he’s fast, creative,” and “that he can compete directly” straight off the bat. VI add that the capture of the German winger is “because the departure of left winger Anthony Limbombe appears imminent.”

On the departure of Limbombe, Hoekman is quoted by VI as saying, “we assume the serious interest [is] seen [and we don’t] assume that he stays with us.” Whilst Hoekman would not comment on the clubs involved in this ‘serious interest’, VI do mention that official approaches have been made for Limbombe from Belgian club Brugge and French club Lille, whilst Leeds United’s interest has been well-documented for over a year now.

On Friday last week The72 reported, as per a further Voetbal International article, that NEC were ready to pull the plug on any approach for Limbombe after their #1 target Ayub Masika had turned them down to remain in Belgium with Lierse SK.

Leeds’ interest in Limbombe goes back to August 2015, according to the Yorkshire Evening Post (YEP), when the West Yorkshire side had a £1.5m bid for the former Belgium Under-19 international turned down. The YEP said at the time that NEC were “holding out for an astronomical amount” as recompense for losing their star winger.

Should Leeds’ interest in the seven-goal winger still be firm, then at least the Whites know how much they need to shell out to bring the exciting young Belgian in according to an article on the Voetbalkrant website. In this article, the writer Diedrick Geypen says that “a transfer fee between €2.5m to €3m (£2.08m to £2.5m) seems necessary to force a breakthrough.”

Leeds United have already made attacking signings in the transfer market so far, bringing in the likes of Sporting Lisbon youngster Hadi Sacko, Swede Marcus Antonsson and young English player Kemar Roofe. Adding Anthony Limbombe might very well be the cherry to a very attacking cake.