Leeds United completed the signing of 31-year-old goalkeeper Alex Cairns from Salford City earlier this week.
The former Thorp Arch academy graduate returns to Elland Road nine years after leaving the club. Cairns has turned out for Fleetwood Town, Stalybridge Celtic and Salford since his one-and-only Leeds appearance. He is expected to take up a third-choice goalkeeper role for the Whites, a pragmatic measure to ensure United satisfy EFL ‘club-trained player’ squad requirements.
While no professional footballer’s contract these days is ‘cheap’ by any means, certainly not in layman’s terms, Leeds are expected to have replaced Klaesson’s role in the squad, satisfied an EFL requirement that may have become an issue following club-trained duo Charlie Cresswell and Jamie Shackleton’s exit, all for a lower comparable financial outlay.
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