It’s a trait that English winger Jamie Gittens has demonstrated throughout Borussia Dortmund’s Champions League campaign, and one that has now made him a top transfer target, as some of the Premier League’s biggest clubs look to lure him home.
And according to stats website WhoScored.com, Gittens has completed more dribbles than any other player in Europe’s top five leagues this season, ahead of the first leg of Dortmund’s Champions League play-off tie against Sporting on Tuesday.
“Eamonn Dolan [Reading’s much-loved former academy manager, who died of cancer in 2016] brought some new coaches into the foundation phase and we basically looked at the way we could develop players.
“He first came to us in the 2011-12 season,” says Reading’s head of academy recruitment Brendan Flanagan.
The list is lengthy and includes the likes of Bayern Munich and France winger Michael Olise, who found himself at Reading alongside Gittens for a brief period.
