Wilks: Mallik Rashaun Coley Wilks
2016-Current
(Leeds Player Details)
(Player Details)
Striker
Born: Leeds: 15-12-1998
Debut: Sutton United (a): substitute: 29-01-2017
6'0" 11st 3lb (2017)
Born in Leeds he graduated through the Club's Academy and shone brightly in the 2015-16 season for the
Under-Eighteens scoring fifteen goals in nineteen starts and two substitute appearances and was also included
in the Under-Twenty-Ones where he scored once in two starts and seven games from the bench. 2016-17 saw him
score twice in five starts and one game from the bench in the Under-Eighteens, while netting twice in thirteen starts
and two from the bench for the Under-Twenty-Threes. He also netted a brace against Hull City in the FA Youth Cup,
with a very impressive display at the beginning of December 2016. His form earned him a call up to the first team
squad just a week later, where he was named on the bench, by head coach Garry Monk, for United’s League fixture
with Reading at Elland Road on 13th December 2016. Wilks, who turned eighteen two days after the Reading
game, was offered his initial professional contract that would see him a Leeds player until at least the end of the
2017/18 season. He was named on the bench for the Second Round F.A. Cup tie at Sutton United on 29th January
2017and he made his debut as a substitute when he came on for Souleymane Doukara after sixty-four minutes.
The match came only three days after Wilks' brother Raheem had been killed outside a barber's shop in Leeds.
On 24th August 2016 he was offered a further one year extension to his contract, taking him to the end of the
2018-19 season. On the same day, in an attempt to provide regular first team football, he was loaned to League
Two side Accrington Stanley, initially until 3rd January 2018. He made his Accrington debut at Notts County, on the
25th August 2016, as an eighty-first minute substitute for Jordan Clarke and five minutes into injury time he scored
the equaliser in a 2-2 away draw. By the end of September he had made seven substitute appearances and scored
twice in the League, and had scored once in one start in the Football League Trophy. On 16th September 2016,
after coming on to replace Kayden Jackson in the seventy-eighth minute, he scored the winning goal in the eighty-
second minute in a 2-1 away win at Chesterfield. On 19th September 2016, he scored his third goal of the season
in the Football League Trophy 3-2 victory against Middlesbrough Under-Twenty-Ones, in which he started and
played a full game, scoring Accrington's second and equalising goal in the seventy-eighth minute as they went on
to a 3-2 home win. He returned to Elland Road on 3rd January 2018 and by then had started three, come on as a
substitute sixteen times and been unused on the bench once in League Two. He had also a third goal to his League
tally when he netted an eighty-eighth minute equaliser in a 1-1 home draw with Newport County on 18th November
2017, after coming on as a seventy-ninth minute replacement for Jordan Thorniley. He had also added a second
goal to his Football League Trophy total when he opened the scoring in the seventh minute of a 2-3 defeat by
Lincoln City at Sincil Bank on 5th December 2017, in a game that he started but was replaced by Ross Sykes with
four minutes to go. In the F.A. Cup he sat on the bench for the 0-0 draw at Guiseley on 5th November 2017 and then
came on as a replacement for Mekhi McLeod in the first minute of extra-time in the replay nine days later. He scored
in the penalty shoot-out to level the scores at 4-4, but Guiseley took the tie when they scored next. Even though he
had left the club in January 2018, he still received a winners medal at the end of the season after Accrington went on
to win the League Two title.While back at Elland Road he scored once in four games for the Under-Twenty-Threes,
the goal coming on 15th January in a 1-2 defeat at Crewe Alexandra. He had also sat unused on the bench in United's
5-1 home League Cup win over Newport County on 22nd August 2017. On 26th January 2018, he joined League Two
side Grimsby Town until the end of the season. He made his debut the following day as a seventy-seventh minute
substitute for Paul Dixon in a 1-0 defeat at home to Luton Town. Three days later he was again a late substitute as he
replaced Jamille Matt in the seventy-third minute of a 0-3 away defeat by Yeovil Town. He made a starting debut in a
1-1 home draw with Cheltenham Town on 3rd February 2018 and almost played the full game, but was replaced by
Diallang Jaiyesimi in the final minute. He started again a week later in a 0-3 loss at Crawley Town, but, unfortunately,
he limped out of the game with a hamstring injury and had to be replaced by Sam Kelly at half-time. He was unable to
play for several weeks and he returned to Elland Road for treatment on 6th March 2018. He returned to Grimsby on
24th March 2018 and immediately started in a 0-4 defeat at Coventry City and played fifty-seven minutes until he was
replaced by Scott Vernon. He also started the nextgame, a 0-0 home draw with Stevenage FC on 30th March 2018
and managed sixty-seven minutes before he gave way to Harry Clifton. It was his final game at Blundell Park, where
he had started four, been a substitute twice and failed to find the net in his League Two games. Once more Wilks was
loaned out, this time to League One side Doncaster Rovers who he joined on 11th July 2018, on a six month loan
which was due to end on 2nd January 2019. It soon looked to be a good move for him career-wise as he was given
the #7 shirt and soon established himself as a regular in the first team.He made his debut in the first match of the
season in a 3-2 away win at Southend United on 4th August 2018 ans scored his first goal when he made the score
2-0 in the fifty-eighth minute. He went on to add four more in the League and one in the League Cup. In the League,
he scored a second in the second game of the season in a 3-0 home win over Wycombe Wanderers on 11th August
2018, when he opened the scoring in the fifty-fifth minute. His third came on 15th September 2018 in a 4-1 win at
Walsall when he gave Doncaster a 2-1 lead in the fifty-eighth minute, and his fourth came in a 3-3 home draw with
Gillingham on 20th October 2018, when he levelled the scores at 2-2 in the sixty-seventh minute. In his third game of
the season in a 2-1 away win over Scunthorpe United, he made it three in three games on 14th August 2018 in the
League Cup, when he opened the scoring in the thirty-sixth minute. By late October he had started thirteen and come
on as a substitute to be ever-present in League One games, and had started once in both the League Cup and the
League Trophy. He had been named on four occasions as "man of the match", once been included in the EFL Team
Of The Week and once the Sky Bet League One 'player of the weekend'.