Young Leeds United fan Daniel Huton was not completely disappointed after sending a letter to Brighton asking to keep his new favorite player. Five-year-old Huton’s favorite is Benjamin White, who's currently on loan at Leeds and will go back to Brighton at the end of the season.
Huton raided his piggy bank, pulled out pen and paper and made his offer for the defender.
Thanks to young @LUFC fan Daniel who recently wrote to us regarding @ben6white.
We've replied accordingly #BHAFC pic.twitter.com/lFpxMQWo1w— Brighton & Hove Albion (at ) (@OfficialBHAFC) April 18, 2020
The young boy didn’t get his exact wish but isn’t coming out of the deal empty-handed. Not only did White see the tweet and reach out to his biggest fan, Leeds owner Andrea Radrizzani replied promising to persue the offer and that Huton is welcome to join the club.
Daniel Auton family please get in touch https://t.co/rFR7aUcR7M
— Benjamin White (@ben6white) April 19, 2020
Great job Daniel! You are welcome to join the club and help victor orta after your school :-) We will top up your offer for Ben and go back to Mr Barber #mot
— Andrea Radrizzani (@andrearadri) April 18, 2020
In an interview with talkSPORT, White said that receiving messages of appreciation like the one from Huton is the best feeling. Some fans were quick to have a little jab, pretending that Leeds' director and lead of media Victor Orta is posing as the five-year-old so the defender stays at Leeds.
Orta realising he has to find a kid he’s invented pic.twitter.com/KB5iYblAyD
— Gill (@gilly_1999) April 19, 2020
Huton will have to wait and see if his wish is fulfilled, just like the last kid who wrote to a Premier League club. In late February, 10-year-old Manchester United fan Daragh asked Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp to stop winning games. Klopp replied and Daragh’s wish was more or less granted.
We this!
10 year old Man Utd fan Daragh from Donegal wrote a letter to Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp asking him to stop his team winning so often.Klopp wrote a personal letter back and it's brilliant! pic.twitter.com/MzsWY346U7
— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) February 20, 2020
10-year-old Man United fan Daragh sent a letter to Jurgen Klopp asking Liverpool to lose games.
Since then … they’ve been knocked out of the UCL, the FA Cup and suffered their first league loss of the season. pic.twitter.com/zJ6UNcP6MP— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) March 11, 2020
Clearly Brighton is the bad guy for not accepting Huton’s enormous $20 offer. To be fair, the Seagulls have been doing amazing work during the break. The club’s stadium has been converted to a drive-in COVID-19 testing site and is now fully operational.
Brighton's #Amex stadium converted into a coronavirus drive-thru testing stationhttps://t.co/SUBtf8ahRl pic.twitter.com/q54eegrhpm
— BBC Radio Sussex (@BBCSussex) April 20, 2020
