{"id":24036,"date":"2025-08-26T09:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/24036\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:55:08","slug":"leeds-united-told-theyve-just-made-a-big-transfer-error-fans-are-not-going-to-get-excited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/24036\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United told they\u2019ve just made a big transfer error, \u2018fans are not going to get excited\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Daniel Farke has now welcomed 10 new signings to Leeds United this summer as they aim to stay in the Premier League.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arriving as Leeds\u2019<\/a> ninth summer addition, Noah Okafor made his debut against Arsenal last Saturday \u2013 Farke decided to give the winger some minutes when his side had already lost.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, the likes of Anton Stach and Gabriel Gudmundsson already look very well settled in Farke\u2019s first team.<\/p>\n

Behind the scenes, Leeds are delighted about signing Okafor<\/a>, and he might also steal a starting spot soon enough.<\/p>\n

But after Okafor\u2019s arrival, Leeds have also recruited James Justin from Leicester City to provide competition for Jayden Bogle at right-back.<\/p>\n

Leeds will have seen a lot of Justin in the Championship last season, and the 49ers have decided he\u2019s now ready for another crack at the top flight.<\/p>\n

Jeff Stelling questions Leeds\u2019 move to sign James Justin from Leicester City<\/p>\n

With that in mind, Jeff Stelling<\/a> has now given his thoughts on Leeds signing Justin, and he wasn\u2019t necessarily a fan of the move.<\/p>\n

Speaking on talkSPORT alongside Ally McCoist, Stelling said that Justin has been a \u2018very good player\u2019 in the past, but he wasn\u2019t so impressed by his recent form for Leicester.<\/p>\n

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And when it came to Leeds\u2019 tenth signing of the summer, Stelling thinks Leeds fans would have preferred a maverick type attacking signing.<\/p>\n

Stelling said: \u201cJames Justin has been a very good player, good enough to win England caps, but he\u2019s struggled for form in the last couple of seasons, I think it\u2019s fair to say.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not having a go at Justin, but what I think Leeds desperately need, is a marquee signing \u2013 they\u2019ve really splashed the cash, they\u2019ve bought a lot of players in for seven, eight, nine, 10 million pounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they need to bring a Jack Grealish type figure in, someone who you know, the fans can really get excited about.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd however well Justin does, the fans are not going to get excited about signing a full-back.\u201d<\/p>\n

James Justin is delighted to be back in the Premier League<\/p>\n

Speaking in his first interview after joining Leeds, Justin said he has been aware of Leeds\u2019 interest for some time, and was delighted to be back in the Premier League.<\/p>\n

And given that 25-year-old Isaac Schmidt hasn\u2019t necessarily impressed at Elland Road, Justin\u2019s arrival should represent a sensible piece of business.<\/p>\n

To some degree, Stelling is right \u2013 Justin isn\u2019t going to get fans off their feet in Yorkshire. <\/p>\n

However, at 27-years-old, the England international definitely strengthens Farke\u2019s side, and Leeds now have a reliable alternative to Bogle.<\/p>\n

Across a long season, Leeds\u2019 squad will be tested, and with no disrespect to either Schmidt or Sam Byram, it might not be ideal if they had to start a flurry of Premier League games.<\/p>\n

And whilst it would be tempting for Leeds to chase all or nothing signings like Grealish, their fans might not be too dissatisfied with a more measured approach.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Farke has now welcomed 10 new signings to Leeds United this summer as they aim to stay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,2306,19,17,19375,20260,8254,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-24036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-english-premier-league","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-james-justin","13":"tag-jeff-stelling","14":"tag-leeds-united","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}