Marc Roca may not be the quickest but for Leeds United’s £10.4million signing, the game is all in the mind.
A deep thinker, advocate of meditation and avid reader, the Spaniard, who is joining from Bayern Munich, recommends Awaken the Giant Within by American motivational guru Tony Robbins as bedtime reading.
Roca, whose fee may rise to £14.7m, models his game on former Liverpool maestro Xabi Alonso. He arrived in Bavaria from Espanyol with great expectations in 2020 amid interest from Barcelona and Arsenal, but a combination of injuries and stellar competition meant that most of his time at Bayern was spent in the shadows.