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Wed 18 June 2025 19:22, UK <\/p>\n
West Ham midfielder Lucas Paqueta reacted to a message from Fulham striker Rodrigo Muniz after Leeds bid \u00a332million for the striker.<\/strong><\/p>\n The former Flamengo striker\u2019s end to the season was curtailed by injury and the 24-year-old missed the last six games of the 2024\/25 campaign.<\/p>\n Muniz became a pivotal part of Fulham\u2019s side in the 2023\/24 season, scoring nine Premier League<\/a> goals after breaking into the Whites\u2019 starting XI.<\/p>\n But the Brazilian striker took a step back last year, starting just eight games in the league as Marco Silva favoured Raul Jimenez as a lone striker<\/a>.<\/p>\n With his playing time limited, and Muniz posting and deleting cryptic messages on social media<\/a>, an exit from Fulham this summer seems on the cards.<\/p>\n However, the striker\u2019s future remains a complicated one after the Cottagers rejected a \u00a326m plus \u00a36m in add-ons bid from Leeds [The Standard<\/a>].<\/p>\n<\/p>\n MORE FOOTBALL INSIDER STORIES<\/p>\n Fulham do not want to sell Muniz<\/a>, but their stance may change if a more sizeable offer arrives for the 24-year-old.<\/p>\n Still recuperating from an injury suffered near the end of the season, Muniz shared a video of himself working out on Instagram, captioned: \u201cBrick by Brick\u201d.<\/p>\n The post was liked by West Ham<\/a>\u2018s midfielder Paqueta and Fulham<\/a> teammate Jimenez, with the pair showing support for the Brazilian.<\/p>\n Fulham have no reason to accept \u00a332m offer from Leeds<\/strong><\/p>\n Football Insider Verdict<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a332m seems like a huge chunk of change for a striker who started just eight Premier League games last season.<\/p>\n However, there is a little more to it than that. In today\u2019s market, as a Premier League side, \u00a332m does not buy you a starting striker, which both Fulham and Leeds<\/a> view Muniz<\/a> as in the future.<\/p>\n And given the Cottagers have failed to adequately replace Aleksandar Mitrovic since his departure in 2023, the last thing they will want to do is to give up a forward with the potential to fill the void left by the Serbian.<\/p>\n What\u2019s more, Leeds are planning on spending big this summer in a bid to avoid a relegation battle altogether and leapfrog into the mid-table battle in the Premier League.<\/p>\n Giving up one of their strikers and strengthening a potential rival will be of little interest to Fulham this summer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credit: Imago \/ Hasan Karim – Breaking Media) Wed 18 June 2025 19:22, UK West Ham midfielder Lucas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,1625,4884,1860,59009,78356,16,15,1927],"class_list":{"0":"post-196166","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-fulham","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-lucas-paqueta","14":"tag-rodrigo-muniz","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-west-ham"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114708055787707277","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196166","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=196166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Rodrigo](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rodrigo-Muniz-Leeds-fi-web-11625-1024x576.png\")
Leeds had a bid rejected for Rodrigo Muniz. (Credit Hasan Karim, Breaking Media)Rodrigo Muniz shares \u2018brick by brick\u2019 message<\/strong><\/p>\n