Diomande talks trials at Palace, the journey so far and future plans

“Everything went fast,” says Yan Diomande. Indeed, it is extraordinary now to think that this time last year Diomande’s entire senior career amounted to half a dozen starts for Leganes at the back end of last season as they were relegated from LaLiga.

He scored in two of those six games, against Espanyol and Valladolid. Even his team did not find the net in the other four. But the teenager did enough to persuade RB Leipzig to part with €20m to bring him to the Bundesliga. Once there, he has been a revelation.