Roofe: Kemar

2016-Current (Leeds Player Details) (Player Details)

Winger/Striker

Born: Walsall, Staffordshire: 06-01-1993

Debut: Queens Park Rangers (a): 07-08-2016

5' 10" 11st 5lb (2016)

The Walsall born Roofe started his football career with the West Bromwich Albion Academy and in July 2009 was granted a scholarship. He started eleven games for the Premier Reserves League side, the West Bromwich Albion Under-Twenty-One team, and came off the bench on two other occasions in the 2010-11 season. He was loaned to Vikingur Reykjavik on 9th May 2011 and made his debut for them on 16th May 2011 in a 1-1 away draw with FH Hafnarfjordur, when he started the League game but was replaced by Martienn Briem in the fifty-eighth minute. Six days later he came off the bench in the sixty-seventh minute to replace Sigurdur Egill Larusson in a 0-0 home draw with UMF Grindavík. He then sat unused on the bench as Vikingur went down 0-2 at IBV Vestmannaeyjar on 29th May 2011. He did play in one Cup match in which he scored in a 10-2 win over Víkingsvollur on 4th June 2011 before returning to West Bromwich on 1st August 2011. He signed his first professional contract with the Baggies in July 2012, it was for a year with an option to extend. He started eighteen and came off the bench once for the Under-Twenty-One team in the 2011-12 season, and was on the bench for the first team in a 0-4 loss at Manchester City on 11th April 2012 and was similarly unused on the bench in a 4-1 win at Bournemouth in the League Cup on 23rd August 2011. He started the 2012-13 season with the West Bromwich Under-Twenty-One Premier League team and scored four goals in eight starts and two games from the bench before being loaned to Northampton Town for a month, from 27th September 2012, to gain valuable League playing time. He made his debut as a sixty-seventh minute substitute for Chris Hackett in a 3-3 draw at Burton Albion on 29th September 2012 and started the next game in a 1-2 home defeat by Gillingham on 2nd October 2012. He went on the start four and come off the bench twice in League games and also came off the bench once in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy, while on loan there. After his return he scored three goals in making eleven starts for the Elite Group Under-Twenty-Ones and also sat unused in the 1-1 draw in the home fixture with Newcastle United on 20th April 2013 for the first team. His contract was extended by one year at the end of that season. In the 2013-14 season he had started eight games for the West Bromwich Albion Under-Twenty-Ones, and then on 28th November 2013 it was decided that Roofe would be joining Cheltenham Town on loan until 4th January 2014. He made a starting debut for them in the 1-1 away draw at Southend United on 30th November 2013. He scored his first, and only, goal for them in the 2-2 draw at home to Hartlepool United on 14th December 2013 when he gave them a 2-0 lead in the thirty-eighth minute before being replaced by Russell Penn at half-time. When his loan expired West Bromwich Albion extended it by a further month and so he went on to score one League goal in seven starts and two games from the bench before returning on 2nd February 2014. On his return he was in good scoring form and netted seven goals in eight starts for the Under-Twenty-Ones and he was called up to the bench for the first team on 29th March 2014 in the 3-3 home draw with Cardiff City, but was unused, and his contract was renewed at the end of the season. He was still scoring goals for the West Bromwich Under-Twenty-One side as the 2014-15 got underway and had scored six goals in eleven games for them by 9th February 2015. He had also been twice on the bench for the first team in the League Cup, but had remained unused in a 1-1 home draw with Oxford United which the Baggies won 8-7 on penalties and a 1-2 loss at Bournemouth on 28th October 2014. On 4th November 2014 Roofe went on a one month loan to Colchester United. He made his debut for them on 9th November 2014 as an eighty-fifth minute substitute for Gavin Massey in a 6-3 F. A. Cup win at Gosport Borough. He only managed two more substitute appearances in the League during his loan spell. On 14th November 2014 he was an eightieth minute replacement for Sanchez Watt in a 2-3 defeat at Barnsley, and on 22nd November 2014 he came on after seventy minutes in a 0-1 home loss to Coventry City, when he replaced Gavin Massey. He returned to the Hawthorns on 2nd December 2014. On 13th February 2015 he went on a one month loan to Oxford United and went straight into his new club's squad, making his debut as a substitute in a 0-2 defeat at Burton Albion on the following day. His next three appearances were also as a substitute until he made his starting debut on 7th March 2015 in a 1-0 win at Bury. On 12th March 2015, his loan was extended to the end of the season. He scored his first goal on 3rd April 2015 in a 3-2 win at Wycombe Wanderers, when he bagged a brace, after he opened the scoring in the eleventh minute and then gave Oxford a 3-1 lead on the hour, before being replaced by Callum O'Dowda, with two minutes left on the clock. He also scored a brace on 18th April 2015 in a 3-0 win at Tranmere Rovers, opening the scoring in the fifty-first minute and then made the score 3-0 in the sixty-eighth minute, before being replaced in the seventy-fifth minute by Patrick Hoban. He then scored in the next two games, opening the scoring in the thirty-first minute of a 2-0 home win over Cambridge United, before being replaced after seventy-five minutes by Kyle Vassall, then in the second game, on 2nd May 2015, he scored the only goal of the game in a 1-0 win at Newport County, with a goal in the thirtieth minute. He went on to score six goals in twelve League starts and four substitute appearances before returning to the Hawthorns. On 11th May 2015 he signed a three year contract and joined Oxford United for an undisclosed fee. Roofe made his debut as an Oxford City player in the opening game of the 2015-16 season as his team drew 1-1 with Crawley Town on 8th August 2015, playing a full game. His first goal came in the next game, on 15th August 2015 as they drew 2-2 at Luton Town and he scored the first Oxford goal in the eighty-second minute to reduce the arrears to 1-2. It was to be a successful season both for Oxford United, who became runners up in League Two and gained automatic promotion to League One, and reached the Final of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy only to got down to Barnsley 2-3 at Wembley, and Roofe who was elected Sky Bet League Two Player of the Year and was also named in Football League League Two Team Of The Year. On 7th July 2016 he joined Leeds United on a four year contract at a fee of Ł3 million. He had scored eighteen goals in starting thirty-nine League games and coming off the bench once, and being unused twice, together with three goals in four starts in the F.A. Cup, one goal in one start in the League Cup, and once being unused on the bench, and four goals in four starts in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy, in which he also was on the bench unused in one. He went on his new club's pre-season tour of Ireland and started in the 2-1 win over Shelbourne at Tolka Park on 13th July 2016. He was in the first choice team that started and that eleven was replaced after an hour and the second eleven played the remaining thirty minutes. The same system operated in the second game three days later as United defeated Shamrock Rovers at the Tallaght Stadium, but he gave way to Hadi Sacko at half-time. He was in the Leeds team that were defeated 1-2 by Peterborough United at London Road on 23rd July 2014 but gave way to Jack McKay after sixty-four minutes. It looked as if he could be a regular as he started United's final pre-season friendly 2-1 win against Serie A side Atalanta at Elland Road a week later and scored the winning goal in the sixty-eighth minute before being replaced by Souleymane Doukara with eight minutes left on the clock. He made his starting League debut in United's first game of the season in a 0-3 defeat by Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road in which he was replaced by Hadi Sacko after seventy-five minutes. He maintained his place three days later as United won on penalties at Fleetwood Town in the League Cup, playing a full game. He was on the bench for United's first home League game of the season as they were defeated 1-2 by Birmingham City on 13th August 2016 and he came on as a substitute for Chris Wood after sixty minutes. Three days later he was a starter in the 1-1 home draw with Fulham and played seventy-eight minutes before being replaced by Hadi Sacko. He was on the bench for United's 2-0 win at Hillsborough over Sheffield Wednesday on 20th August 2016, but came on for Alex Mowatt after seventy-seven minutes. He played a full game in an understrength United side that won 1-0 at Luton Town in the League Cup three days later, but was again on the bench in the 1-3 loss at Nottingham Forest, coming on in the seventieth minute for Hadi Sacko as he was not producing the form that he had shown before joining United. After that he had a spell of six games from the bench, one game missed and a start in the League Cup at home to Blackburn Rovers before cementing his place in the starting eleven with a run of fifteen games and in the season he started twenty-eight and came off the bench fourteen times in League matches, while coming on twice as a substitute in the F.A. Cup and starting five games in the League Cup. He was not as prolific as in his time at Oxford, but the step up in divisions restricted his goals to just three, all in the League. he had to wait until 3rd December 2016 for his first goal, when he gave United the lead in the sixty-eighth minute at home in a fine 2-0 win over Aston Villa, with Chris Wood ensuring victory four minutes into injury time at the end of the game. The second was not long after in the 4-1 win at Deepdale on Boxing Day when he again opened the scoring in the seventeenth minute. His third and final goal came in the reverse fixture against Preston North End at Elland Road on 1st April 2017, when again he opened the scoring in the eighteenth minute as United cruised to a 3-0 win to complete the double. The new season saw him first choice and he opened his account with a hat-trick to give Leeds a 3-1 lead with goals in the forty-fourth, forty-ninth and sixty-fifth minutes, after Newport County had taken a shock lead in the thirty-third minute in the Second Round League Cup tie on 22nd August 2017, which Leeds eventually won 5-1. Four days later he opened his League account with the opening goal, after twenty-four minutes as United won 2-0 at Nottingham Forest. In the following game, a 5-0 home win over Burton Albion on 9th September 2017, he scored the fourth goal after fifty-four minutes, as both he and Leeds seemed in a rich vein of form. This was the case and twice Leeds headed the table in September, after a 2-0 home win over Birmingham City before a 0-1 defeat at Millwall, and then a 3-2 home win over Ipswich Town saw them return to #1, but once they had been beaten 1-3, with Roofe scoring a consolation in the sixty- seventh minute, by Cardiff City, they never returned to the top and slowly slipped further and further out of contention and finished well out of the running even for a play-off place. Roofe, followed a similar pattern, first shining like a beacon then fizzling like a damp squib, but he could be reasonably pleased as he finished the season as Leeds' leading goalscorer in the League with eleven goals from twenty-seven starts and nine games from the bench. He was also the unused substitute on three occasions. His goals continued and he got his second hat-trick of the season, his first in the League when he put on a master class in the second half at Loftus Road, on 9th December 2017,as he blew Queens Park Rangers away with a first after sixty-three minutes and a second five minutes later. The home side did pull one back but he completed his treble four minutes into injury time to make the final score 3-1 and double his League season's tally to six. His seventh came in a 2-1 win at Burton Albion on Boxing Day when he finished the scoring in the sixty-fourth minute and then on 20th January 2018 he made it eight with a goal in the fifty -fifth minute to make the score 2-2 in a game tat was lost 3-4 at Millwall. He then finished the scoring at 2-2 to win a point at Bristol City with a goal in the eightieth minute on 18th February 2018. He reached double figures when he opened the scoring in the thirteenth minute at Deepdale on 10th April 2018, but Preston North End hit back to make it 1-3 and his final goal came on the final day of the season as United completed the double over Queens Park Rangers at Elland Road on 6th May 2018 when he opened the scoring in the thirtieth minute as Leeds won 2-0. He was a key component in the Leeds team under new coach Marcelo Bielsa at the start of the 2018-19 season. It came as no surprise when their exciting brand of football soon had them at the head of the table as they won four and drew two of their first six fixtures. Roofe led the way with four of their fourteen goals in those games. He opened his account with two at Pride Park as high-flying Derby County were humiliated 4-1 in front of their own fans. In the twenty-first minute he made the score 2-1 and on the hour made it 3-1, while he also got the second after seventy-one minutes to ensure a 2-0 win over Rotherham United at Elland Road on 18th August 2018. One of the best games of the season to-date was at the Liberty Stadium as promotion favourites Swansea City and Leeds went toe-to-toe three days later. Roofe scored five minutes before half-time to level the scores at 1-1 as the battle-royal carried on unabated and finished at 2-2. He was injured after the sixth game and missed the next six as Leeds started to struggle under the weight of an accumulation of injuries.

(To 2017/18)