{"id":119681,"date":"2025-05-21T11:41:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T11:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/119681\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T11:41:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T11:41:32","slug":"i-will-quit-leeds-united-may-have-just-moved-closer-to-25m-signing-after-stunning-ultimatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/119681\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I will quit’… Leeds United may have just moved closer to \u00a325m signing after stunning ultimatum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leeds United may well have just received a monumental boost in pursuit of a player who Daniel Farke has liked for some time now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leeds United<\/a> have little over a week now before the summer transfer window officially opens<\/a> on June 1st.<\/p>\n

For Daniel Farke<\/a>, this summer\u2019s transfer business needs to be absolutely spot on if his side are to stand a chance of beating the drop in the Premier League next season.<\/p>\n

Thankfully there seems to be a growing number of players on his transfer radar ahead of the summer. There\u2019s also some very exciting names on there too, with some names from previous transfer windows as well.<\/p>\n

Farke will need to add definite star quality to his ranks this summer and Leeds United have a \u00a3100million transfer kitty<\/a> to spend on new players. Expect Farke to spend all of that, too. One player who could eat up a chunk of that \u00a3100million of James McAtee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Gareth Copley\/Getty ImagesPep Guardiola\u2019s Man City ultimatum is great news for Leeds United<\/p>\n

Leeds United are interested in signing McAtee<\/a> this summer. They were also interested in January but the 22-year-old attacking midfielder remains with Man City, where he made 15 Premier League appearances in 2024\/25, scoring three goals.<\/p>\n

The \u00a325million-rated McAtee is expected to leave Man City this summer<\/a> with his contract expiring in the summer of 2026. And City boss Pep Guardiola has now flung the door open on a potential player exodus at Man City this summer; of which McAtee will surely be included.<\/p>\n

Guardiola has threatened to quit if his side don\u2019t streamline their playing squad in the summer transfer window. He told BBC Sport<\/a>: \u201cI said to the club I don\u2019t want that [a bigger squad]. I don\u2019t want to leave five or six players in the freezer. I don\u2019t want that. I will quit. Make a shorter squad, I will stay. It\u2019s impossible for my soul to [tell] my players in the tribune [stands] that they cannot play.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pep later added: \u201cAs a manager I cannot train 24 players and every time I select I have to have four, five, six stay in Manchester at home because they cannot play. This is not going to happen. I said to the club, I don\u2019t want that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Gareth Copley\/Getty ImagesJames McAtee has already been told to leave Man City amid Leeds United links<\/p>\n

McAtee already looked likely to leave the Etihad this summer. And Pep\u2019s latest comments surely nails down an exit for McAtee, who is certainly one of the expendable members of the team.<\/p>\n

Whether or not Leeds United could pull off a deal remains to be seen. He\u2019d surely get regular game time at Elland Road<\/a> but he might favour a move to a more established Premier League club, with the Englishman bound to have a lot of interest.<\/p>\n

Either way, an exit is now inevitable. And speaking recently, Alan Shearer urged McAtee to leave Man City<\/a> this summer, saying: \u201cHe\u2019s not getting in their team. He\u2019s another one that is going to have to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

McAtee is certainly a name to keep an eye on this summer. He could yet be Leeds United\u2019s marquee signing.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United may well have just received a monumental boost in pursuit of a player who Daniel Farke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,25459,1860,1037,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-119681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-james-mcatee","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-pep-guardiola","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114545641673551573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}