France youth international Michael Cuisance has been officially presented as a Marseille player today after joining from Bayern Munich on summer transfer deadline day. The 21-year-old was close to joining Leeds United and was in Yorkshire last week for his medical. However, the Elland Road outfit pulled the plug on the £20 million deal after scans turned up an issue with one of his feet. Leeds performed further assessments, weighed up the risk, and conclude Cuisance could struggle to adapt to the physical demands of playing under head coach Marcelo Bielsa.
After mulling the results over and taking advice from head of medicine Rob Price, they reckoned he wasn’t in the right condition to be part of their physically-intense side.