{"id":139115,"date":"2025-05-28T16:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/139115\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:18:10","slug":"4m-daniel-farke-target-says-he-absolutely-loves-former-leeds-player-who-was-sold-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/139115\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a34m Daniel Farke target says he absolutely loves former Leeds player who was sold in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Leeds United are back in the Premier League, and they have work to do this summer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Leeds will want to buck the trend of promoted teams going straight back down, and in order to do that, they need to make some signings.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Leeds\u2019 players are certainly good enough to make the step up \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/leeds-fantastic-midfielder-who-ian-wright-says-is-one-of-the-players-to-watch-in-the-premier-league-next-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ao Tanaka has been tipped to shine in the Premier League<\/a>, while Pascal Struijk has been here before.<\/p>\n<p>One area of concern at Leeds is the goalkeeper position.<\/p>\n<p>Illan Meslier has made a number of mistakes this season, and he needs replacing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/leeds-in-loan-talks-over-title-winning-goalkeeper-likened-to-iker-casillas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds have been linked with Daniel Peretz<\/a> from Bayern Munich, and now, the German goalkeeper has made a claim that may interest a few <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/leeds-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds<\/a> fans.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2210379859-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by S. Mellar\/FC Bayern via Getty Images\" class=\"wp-image-952109\" \/>Photo by S. Mellar\/FC Bayern via Getty ImagesDaniel Peretz hails former Leeds star<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Goal, Peretz was asked to name his five favourite players in world football right now.<\/p>\n<p>As you can imagine, Peretz namechecked some absolute superstars, and he reserved some praise for one former Leeds ace.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Peretz named Raphinha as one of his favourite players in world football today.<\/p>\n<p>Raphinha was of course at Leeds between 2020 and 2022 before making a move to Barcelona where he\u2019s seriously kicked on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/thierry-henry-says-55m-player-arsenal-would-like-to-sign-deserves-the-ballon-dor-over-liverpools-mohamed-salah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Raphinha is a Ballon d\u2019Or contender<\/a> these days, and, intriguingly, he\u2019s also one of Peretz\u2019s very favourite players.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds\u2019 only signing from Bayern Munich<\/p>\n<p>Peretz could join Leeds from Bayern Munich this summer, and that would be an interesting transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Leeds have plenty of history with Bayern Munich, dating back to the controversial 1975 European Cup final, and there\u2019s been bad blood between the two clubs ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds have only ever signed one player from Bayern Munich in their history \u2013 Marc Roca.<\/p>\n<p>Roca didn\u2019t have the best of spells at Leeds, and he\u2019s since left the club to join Real Betis.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds almost signed Mickael Cuisance from Bayern Munich a few years ago, but they appeared to dodge a bullet with that one as Cuisance has struggled ever since those links.<\/p>\n<p>Peretz could become only Leeds\u2019 second signing from Bayern Munich if he arrives this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United are back in the Premier League, and they have work to do this summer. 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