Roberts: Tyler D'Whyte (Tyler)

2018-Current (Leeds Player Details) (Player Details)

Striker, Winger

Born: Gloucester, Gloucestershire: 12-01-1999

Debut: Bolton Wanderers: 14-08-2018

5'11" 11st 11lb (2018)

Roberts, who grew up in Quedgeley, joined West Bromwich Albion at the age of seven, when he was spotted playing with Tredworth Tigers. He attended Meadowside Primary School and Sandwell Academy. Roberts was selected for England at schoolboy level, but opted to play for Wales, who he qualifies for through his Welsh grandparents. He was discovered whilst playing for Tredworth Tigers in a tournament in Gloucester, where he was noticed by scouts and asked to join West Bromwich Albion. When he reached secondary school, his mother decided to move to Birmingham, so he could pursue his dream. He started his International career with the Welsh Under-Fifteens on 22nd April 2014 in a 2-3 defeat in Belgium, where he started but came off for Robbie Burton in the fifty-third minute. He was capped at Under-Sixteen in a 2-2 draw with Scotland at Park Avenue and scored the first Welsh goal in the fifty-sixth minute. He was capped eight times as an Under-Seventeen, all in the UEFA European Under-Seventeen Championship Qualifiers. The first three were in Belarus as he played a full game in a 0-0 draw with Russia at the Torpedo Stadium in Minsk on 19th October 2014, then, two days later, he came on as a substitute at the start of the second half as he replaced Blake Davies in a 1-2 defeat by Belarus at the City Stadium, Molodechno. Three days later he was back at the Torpedo Stadium for a 2-1 win over Montenegro, all in Group Thirteen. On 23rd March 2015, he played the first of two group A5 UEFA European Under Seventeen qualifiers in Russia at the FC Krasnodar Academy Stadium. He scored in the seventy-eighth minute of a 2-3 defeat by Austria and three days later he was again on the scoresheet as he scored the only goal of the game in the nineteenth minute of a victory over Iceland. He was still young enough to play for the third season in the competition in Croatia and was the captain in all three games in the Group A5 qualifiers. The first was on 16th March 2016 at Stadion Valbruna, Rovinj, in a 2-0 win over the host country, in which he was replaced by Liam Edwards, five minutes into injury time at the end of the game. Two days later at Stadion Veruda, Pula, they went down 0-1 to Portugal and on 21st March 2016, again at the Stadion Valbruna, Rovinj, they were again beaten by Sweden by the same margin. He had already sat on the bench for the Welsh Under-Nineteens at the Mikheil Meskhi Stadium in Tbilisi, Georgia as Wales defeated the host nation 3-0 on 12th November 2015 in the 2015 UEFA EURO Under-Nineteen Championship Qualifiers before he made his debut two days later at the same venue and he played seventy minutes before being replaced by Nathan Broadhead in a 0-2 defeat by Austria. Three days later he was at the same venue as the second half substitute for Dylan Thomas as Wales went down to Albania 2-3. His third cap came in a Friendly with Iceland at Dragon Park in Newport on 4th September 2016 and he scored in the sixty-sixth minute in a 1-2 defeat. He was the Captain and played a full game in the three games in the 2016 UEFA EURO Under-Nineteen Championship Qualifiers. The first was on 10th November 2016 at the Racecourse Ground, Wrexham in which Wales were defeated by Greece 0-2, but this was soon compensated for by a 3-2 win over England two days later at the Bangor University Stadium and three days later at the same venue Luxembourg were put to the sword by 6-2. He also collected five Under-Twenty-One caps, all were in the 2017 UEFA European Under-Twenty- One Championship Qualifiers. The first was on 1st September 2017 at the Tissot Arena in Biel, in a 3-0 win over Switzerland in which he opened the scoring in the seventh minute before giving way to Mark Harris after eighty-three minutes. A trip to the Municipal de Chaves in Portugal four days later saw a 0-2 defeat at the hands of their hosts as Roberts was substituted by Nathan Broadhead after sixty-seven minutes. He then had full games in three further games. On 5th October 2017, there was a 3-1 win over Liechtenstein at the Sportpark in Eschen before two home games at the Bangor University Stadium, the first on 10th November 2017 ended in a 0-4 defeat by Bosnia and Herzegovina followed four days later by a 0-0 draw with Romania. He made his full International debut for Wales on 6th September 2018 at the Cardiff City Stadium in a 4-1 win over The Republic of Ireland in Group Four of the UEFA Nations League B. He came on as a seventy-fifth minute replacement for Gareth Bale. Three days later he was again a substitute this time in a 0-2 defeat by Denmark at Ceres Park, Aarhus as he replaced Ethan Ampadu in the seventy-first minute. He did also sit unused on the bench in a Friendly at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff on 11th October 2018 when Spain beat them 1-4, but finally he made his starting debut at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin on 16th October 2018 in a 1-0 win over the Republic of Ireland in the reverse fixture in the UEFA Nations League B. However, to return to his club career, he signed his first professional deal at The Hawthorns two days after his seventeenth birthday in January 2016, when he signed a two and a half year contract, but prior to that he had been on the bench on 3rd November 2014 for the Baggies Premier League Two side for Under-Twenty-Threes as they defeated Stoke City 3-1. On 2nd December 2014 he had come on for his debut in a 1-1 draw with Derby County when he replaced Alex Jones with five minutes to go. there were two more substitute appearances before he made his starting debut on 2nd February 2015 in a 1-1 draw at Newcastle United by the end of the 2014-15 season he had started nine, been a substitute four times and unused once for the Premier League 2 side. He had also found the net three times, the first was when hemade the score 2-0 in the sixty-second minute of a 3-2 home win over Bolton Wanderers on 23rd February 2015. His second was on 20th April 2015, when he equalised in the seventieth minute of a 1-1 draw at Stoke City and the third was on 11th May 2015 in a 3-2 win over Newcastle United at the Hawthorns, when he opened the scoring in the twenty-sixth minute. He had also been called to the bench for the first team when the Baggies had been beaten 1-4 at Arsenal on 24th May 2015. He scored twice more in the 2015-16 season with goals on 11th January 2016 in a 1-1 draw at home to Arsenal when he opened the scoring in the fourteenth minute and on 29th January 2016 in a 2-4 defeat at the hands of Newcastle United at home when he opened the West Brom scoring in the fifty-fourth minute to make the score 1-2. He started thirteen and came off the bench four times for Premier League 2 side that season. With the First team he had four games where he was unused on the bench and one when he came on as a substitute. This was in a 1-1 draw with Liverpool at the Hawthorns on 15th May 2016, when he replaced Jonathan Leko after seventy-three minutes. He also sat unused in the F.A. Cup at Peterborough on 10th February 2016. In the 2016-17 season he spent much of it away on loan, but while he did not add to his First team tally, he did score once for the Premier League 2 team on 24th October 2016, when he scored the only goal of the home game with Blackburn Rovers in the third minute as he played three full games in the season. On 21st July 2016 he went on loan to League One side Oxford United. He made his debut as a sixty-fourth minute substitute for Chris Maguire in a 1-1 home draw with Chesterfield on 6th August 2016. He came on as a substitute in the League on fourteen occasions but did not find the net.He also started twice and came off the bench once in the Football League Trophy and scored once, scoring the first goal of the game in the twelfth minute in a 4-2 win over Exeter City on 30th August 2016. He also scored once in the F.A. Cup, when he netted Oxford's fourth goal in a 5-0 win at Merstham FC on 5th November 2016, as he started three games in the competition. He also started once and came off the bench once in the League Cup. He returned to the Hawthorns on 3rd January 2017 and two weeks later he was loaned to another League One team in Shrewsbury Town for the rest of the season. He made his debut on 21st January 2017 in a 1-0 home win over Oldham Athletic. He started eleven and came off the bench twice and scored four goals. He scored his first goal when he opened the scoring two minutes after half-time on 4th February 2017 in a 2-1 home win over Bury. His second came when he again opened the scoring, this time after sixty-five minutes on 18th February 2017 in a 2-1 home win over AFC Wimbledon, then the third came on 28th February 2017 when he made the score 2-2 in the fifty-first minute of a 4-3 home win over Charlton Athletic and on 11th March 2017 he scored the opening goal in third minute of an away 1-1 draw at Chesterfield. On 25th August 2017 Roberts was loaned to League One side Walsall and made his League debut for them on 26th August 2017 in a 3-3 home draw with Bradford City as a subsitute for Kieron Morris in the fifty-third minute and just eight minutes later he had headed his first goal to get Walsall back to just 2-3 in arrears. He made his starting League debut for them on 12th September 2017 in a 1-5 defeat at Rotherham United. He started eleven League games and was a substitute in six more and found the net five times. His other four goals came on 23 September 2017 when he made the score 2-0 in the fifty-third minute in a 2-1 win at Oxford United, three days later in a 2-2 home draw with Charlton Athletic, when he levelled the scores at 1-1 four minutes before half-time, On 17th October 2017 in a 1-1 draw at Milton Keynes Dons when he scored the equaliser in the fifty-eighth minute and on 21st November 2017 in a 4-2 home win over Fleetwood Town, when he put walsall 3-2 in front with a minute left on the clock. He aso started once in the Football League Trophy and once in the F.A. Cup. He also started twice for West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League 2 and sat unused once on the bench in the League Cup. With his contract with the Baggies due to expire at the end of the 2017-18 season, and not being able to agree terms for a new one, on 31st January 2018 Leeds United paid West Bromwich Abion a fee said to be in the region of £2.5 million for Tyler Roberts and signed him on a four year contract. It was hoped that he would make his debut the following Saturday for the home encounter with Cardiff City on 3rd February 2018 but it was not until several games into the 2018-19 season before that occurred. He had arrived at Elland Road with a minor knock but after he had missed a couple of games, Coach Paul Heckingbottom revealed that he had cracked his shin bone upon his return to training and would be ruled out for several weeks. He ultimately missed the remainder of the season through the injury. It was well into the pre-seson before he pulled on the United shirt in the second half of the pre-season friendly against Southen United at Roots Hallon 22nd July 2018, when he came on as a sixty-second minute substitute for Laurens De Bock. This was quickly followed by replacing Yosuke Ideguchiat half-time in the 3-4 defeat at Kassum Stadium by Walsall on 24th July 2018 and finding the net in the fifty-fourth minute. He started on July 26th against Guiseley, but gave way to Jordan Stevens after thirty-eight minutes. Thee days later he replaced Ezgjan Alioski after sixty-four minutes in United's final friendly at home to UD Las Palmas. His full debut followed on 14th August 2018 when started for in the League Cup in a 2-1 home win against Bolton Wanderers in which he was replaced by Mateusz Klich after sixty-eight minutes. He also started on 28th August 2018 in a 0-2 home defeat by Preston North End in the League Cup in which he was replaced by Ezgjan Alioski on the one hour mark. He had sat unused on the bench in three League games, on 5th August at home to Stoke Ciy, on 11th August at Derby County and on 31st August 2018 at home to Middlesbrough, before making his League starting debut on 15th September 2018 in a 1-1 draw at Millwaal in which he was replaced by Stuart Dallas after sixty-eight minutes. His first goals came in the next League game three days later in a 3-0 home win over Preston North End, when he scored the second and third Leeds goals in the seventy-fourth and eighty-second minutes, before being replaced by Stuart Dallas with four minuted to go. He also got the only goal at Hull City, in the fifty-first minute to take his goals to three. Towards the end of October he had started seven and been unused four times in League games.

(To 2017/18)