{"id":71501,"date":"2026-04-29T22:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/71501\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:48:17","slug":"leeds-face-fierce-competition-for-free-agent-doekhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/71501\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds face fierce competition for free agent Doekhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds United face fierce competition in the battle to sign Union Berlin defender Danilho Doekhi, who will leave the German side as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Farke wants to sign the Dutchman, who has been a standout in the Bundesliga this season. Doekhi ranks sixth in the Bundesliga for interceptions this season and has proven to be a huge aerial threat in opposition boxes, scoring five league goals, and seven in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The 6ft 3in defender is attracting considerable interest as he nears the end of his deal in the German capital.<\/p>\n<p>Fabrizio Romano is reporting that Leeds face competition from Borussia Dortmund and teams in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Dortmund are eyeing the centre-back as a replacement for Niklas Sule, who will leave the Westfalenstadion as a free agent in the summer. There is also \u2018strong interest\u2019 from the Saudi Pro League\u2019s financial powers with several of the PIF-backed teams considering an approach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Farke has been a long-term admirer of the 27-year-old, having been keen to bring Doekhi to former club Norwich City.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Read \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefootballfaithful.com\/atletico-madrid-vs-arsenal-champions-league-combined-xi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Atletico Madrid vs Arsenal \u2013 Champions League Combined XI<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">See more \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefootballfaithful.com\/juventus-join-chase-to-sign-outcast-chelsea-forward-jackson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Juventus join chase to sign outcast Chelsea forward Jackson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FootyFaithful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thefootballfaithfull\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCUgN0WQEhxRbfTdlbkEG7zQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@thefootballfaithful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TikTok<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United face fierce competition in the battle to sign Union Berlin defender Danilho Doekhi, who will leave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,190,38884,38885,6288,38806,751,676],"class_list":["post-71501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-germany","tag-latest-leeds-news","tag-latest-leeds-united-news","tag-leeds","tag-leeds-united","tag-premier-league","tag-transfers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116490437088562736","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}