Leeds United player back in training for a week – Return to action looks imminent

Maximilian Wöber hasn’t played a minute of Champions League football for Leeds United so far this season.

His only time on the pitch for the Whites was in the 3-0 EFL Cup defeat to Middlesbrough in mid-August.

The defender played 90 minutes for Austria against Slovenia in September, and had complained about the pitch ahead of the away match.

At that time he was keen to tell the Austrian media that his lack of prominence at Leeds United was largely down to him carrying a calf issue, quoted as saying: “Nothing major, but it should (needs to) heal properly this early in the season. I trained normally all last week, now it’s fine again.

“The pitch opens up quite a bit, there are then proper furrows in it. That makes it a bit dangerous.”

As felt oddly inevitable given his comments, Wöber picked up an injury in that game and hasn’t appeared since.

Ralf Rangnick announced his latest Austria squad on Tuesday, ahead of November matches against Kazakhstan and Slovenia.

Wöber is in it.

Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung quote the manager as saying: “Max started training again at Leeds a week ago. We don’t have many options in his position.”

Rangnick also went on to say that players not getting minutes at their clubs isn’t always a bad thing because at least they can’t get injured.

However, it looks like Wöber will have managed to get injured in an international break after playing no Championship minutes beforehand, subsequently playing no minutes since and then getting fit in time to go on the next international break.