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Football League World’s Middlesbrough fan pundit Phil Wrightson has revealed he wouldn’t trade striker Britt Assombalonga for Leeds United forward Patrick Bamford if he had the chance.

Bamford spent two spells at Boro, one on-loan and one permanent, and scored 33 goals in 97 appearances for the North East club in total.

The 26-year-old made the switch from the Riverside to Elland Road in a £7 million deal in July 2018 and has found the net 14 times in 37 appearances since.

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Assombalonga joined Boro in 2017, scoring 35 goals in 105 games, and played alongside Bamford in his first season at the club.

Leeds are two points off the top of the Championship, while Boro are two points above the relegation zone but both strikers have scored four Championship goals this season.

Wrightson suggested that despite the two sides' differing fortunes this season, he wouldn’t trade Assombalonga for the Whites striker if he had the chance.

He explained: “Even though Bamford and Assombalonga have scored the same number of goals this season, Bamford is doing so in a successful side and it appears, from what Leeds fans are saying, that he has missed a hatful to score these goals.

“It stands to reasons he will be getting more chances, especially, and this hurts me to say, playing in a team like Leeds who play the kind of attacking, attractive football I wish Boro would play.

“I always liked Bamford when he played for us but he appears to be a fair-weather striker who scores when things are going well–Boro’s season that ended in the play-off final in 2014/15, Derby the season before–but struggles in a struggling team, such as for Boro, Burnley and Norwich when they were fighting against relegation in the Premier League.

“Britt has his detractors and misses his fair share of chances ,but to score 16 goals in a Tony Pulis side is no mean feat and his goals kept Forest up in the season before he joined us.  

 “I truly believe that if they did swap clubs Britt would thrive on the supply he is starved of at the Riverside and Bamford would struggle. I believe we have the better striker at our club and want to keep it that way.”