{"id":157711,"date":"2025-06-04T14:33:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/157711\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T14:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:33:17","slug":"leeds-united-now-targeting-a-third-liverpool-player-after-konstantinos-tsimikas-and-caoimhin-kelleher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/157711\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United now targeting a third Liverpool player after Konstantinos Tsimikas and Caoimhin Kelleher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Leeds United\u2019s desire to bring in players with Premier League experience continues to dictate the names linked with the club \u2013 and another Liverpool star is on The Whites\u2019 radar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having learned from the disaster of summer 2022, <a href=\"http:\/\/leedsunited.news\/club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds<\/a> want players who have already played in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/tag\/premier-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a>. The summer of 2022 was the last window Leeds had prior to a Premier League season.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Orta and Jesse Marsch combined to sign the likes of Marc Roca, Brenden Aaronson, Luis Sinisterra, Rasmus Kristensen, Tyler Adams and others that had not played a single minute in England\u2019s top tier.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds were relegated that season and it has seen Leeds target those with Premier League know-how. It has led the club to being linked with two Liverpool players previously, and now a third in Joe Gomez.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2217497460-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Nikki Dyer - LFC\/Liverpool FC via Getty Images\" \/>Photo by Nikki Dyer \u2013 LFC\/Liverpool FC via Getty ImagesLeeds targeting Liverpool star Joe Gomez but face competition<\/p>\n<p>This summer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/transfers\/leeds-united-have-made-enquiries-to-sign-40m-liverpool-player-this-summer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds have already made enquiries for Caoimhin Kelleher<\/a> but have missed out to Brentford after they struck an \u00a318m deal to land the Irishman this week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/transfers\/leeds-united-told-how-much-theyd-have-to-fork-out-in-wages-for-kostas-tsimikas-from-liverpool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Konstantinos Tsimikas is also on Leeds\u2019 list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireofthekop.com\/2025\/06\/02\/liverpool-open-selling-gomez-25m\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Empire of the Kop<\/a> says Leeds are one of eight clubs eyeing a move for Liverpool\u2019s England international Gomez. The versatile defender managed nine Premier League outings last term.<\/p>\n<p>Falling down the pecking order under Arne Slot, Liverpool are willing to sell Gomez for a fee of \u00a325m. Newcastle, Aston Villa, Everton, West Ham, Bournemouth, Leeds, Burnley and Sunderland are all keen.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"705\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2170564473-1024x705.jpg\" alt=\"Photo By Piaras \u00d3 Midheach\/Sportsfile via Getty Images\" \/>Photo By Piaras \u00d3 Midheach\/Sportsfile via Getty ImagesHow Joe Gomez surprised James Milner while at Liverpool<\/p>\n<p>Milner of course, left Liverpool in the summer of 2023 to join Brighton after a long-winded stint with Gomez at Liverpool. The 15-time England defender has been plagued by injury but is rated highly.<\/p>\n<p>MORE LEEDS UNITED STORIES<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, by Milner. Speaking after a 1-0 win over Newcastle in 2022, Milner said Gomez\u2019s crossing ability surprised him: \u201cFor Joey, for example, to come in this morning and perform like he did was incredible. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c[He won] headers, they were loading his side, and going forward. I\u2019ve realised over the last few months what a good crosser of the ball he is! It\u2019s pleasing,\u201d Milner said about Gomez on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireofthekop.com\/2022\/05\/01\/liverpool-in-talks-to-sign-fresh-shirt-sponsorship-deal-worth-more-than-double-their-current-contract-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Liverpool\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United\u2019s desire to bring in players with Premier League experience continues to dictate the names linked with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,14207,1860,100,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-157711","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-joe-gomez","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-transfer-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114625590483831505","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157711","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=157711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}