Gray has played 40 times across all competitions for Leeds this season as the Whites plot a route back to the Premier League. The recently-turned 18-year-old has accelerated through the England youth ranks since last summer, representing the U17s, U19s and U20s in the past twelve months.

Ahead of March’s international break, Gray is thought to be in consideration for Carsley’s latest U21s squad owing to the first-team exposure he has benefitted from throughout 2023/24. Gray’s Under-20 Elite League Squad debut came last November in a 3-2 defeat by Italy, while month earlier the teenager played every available minute for England’s Under-19s in European

Championships qualifying – at right-back and central midfield.

More recently, Gray announced himself to a national audience with his display in the FA Cup Fifth Round defeat by Chelsea at Stamford Bridge – which was broadcast live on ITV. Still just 17 at the time, Gray was named Man of the Match for his performance in the middle of the park against the likes of £100 million duo Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo.