Anton Stach: Leeds Utd complete £17m signing from Hoffenheim

Leeds United person signed Germany midfielder Anton Stach from Hoffenheim successful a woody worthy £17m.

The 26-year-old, who has 2 planetary caps, has joined connected a four-year contract.

Stach becomes the sixth summertime signing for Leeds, who were promoted to the Premier League aft winning the Championship past season.

He follows Sebastiaan Bornauw, Jaka Bijol, Gabriel Gudmundsson, Lukas Nmecha and Sean Longstaff successful joining manager Daniel Farke's squad for the 2025-26 campaign.

"I americium excited to articulation specified a bully team, specified a bully Premier League team, and I americium looking guardant to the adjacent season," said Stach, who is 6ft 4in.

"My benignant of play, I would accidental I americium an assertive player. I americium bully successful duels. I americium bully astatine anticipating passes from the opponents and it would beryllium bully for the Premier League. Now we volition see, I volition effort my best."

Stach has antecedently played with compatriot Nmecha arsenic the brace helped Germany triumph the European Under-21 Championship successful 2021.

He added: "The biggest people is to enactment successful the league and personally conscionable develop, accommodate to the league, to the velocity of people and past get galore bully experiences hopefully."