{"id":198062,"date":"2025-06-19T20:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T20:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/198062\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T20:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T20:44:10","slug":"leeds-united-see-initial-bid-rejected-for-magnificent-midfielder-another-4m-will-get-deal-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/198062\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United see initial bid rejected for ‘magnificent’ midfielder, another \u00a34m will get deal done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leeds United seem to be focusing on a new midfielder and a starting striker after completing deals for Lukas Nmecha and Jaka Bijol \u2013 with the latter undergoing a medical on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With Nmecha sorting out cover needed for a big-money striker, Leeds made a bid for Rodrigo Muniz <\/a>and were said to be in advanced Nikola Krstovic talks<\/a>. Leeds are watching Vladyslav Vanat<\/a> at the U21 Euros.<\/p>\n

A striker could come next with Leeds<\/a> pushing to sign another forward even after the arrival of Nmecha on a free from Wolfsburg. Another midfielder is also key alongside Ao Tanaka, Ilia Gruev and Ethan Ampadu.<\/p>\n

Plenty of options are on Leeds\u2019 radar. Most-recently, Leeds have been linked with Raphael Onyedika<\/a> at Club Brugge, but Strasbourg captain Habib Diarra<\/a> seems to be the one Leeds want to sign this summer.<\/p>\n

\"StadePhoto by Sathire Kelpa\/Eurasia Sport Images\/Getty ImagesLeeds United told to improve Habib Diarra bid by another \u00a34m<\/p>\n

Reports emerged at the start of the month that Leeds had made a bid for Senegal star Diarra<\/a>. Just 24 hours later, he was nutmegging Dean Henderson to score in a 3-1 Senegal win over England at Forest.<\/p>\n

Strasbourg had not given a response<\/a> as they waited for further offers, with Diarra himself of the belief he deserves to join an elite club<\/a>. Strasbourg president Marc Keller, though, says Diarra will leave this summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, TeamTalk<\/a> provide an update. They say Strasbourg have now given a response to Leeds, rejecting a \u00a321m bid made by The 49ers. The report says another \u00a34m, taking a deal to \u00a325m, will get the job done.<\/p>\n

\"EnglandPhoto by Richard Heathcote\/Getty ImagesThe other clubs interested in signing Habib Diarra this summer<\/p>\n

Diarra has sparkled in Ligue 1 and given he is just 21 but captaining Strasbourg, interest in him is aplenty. Especially, after Liam Rosenior described Diarra as \u201cmagnificent\u201d<\/a>, after making the midfielder his skipper.<\/p>\n

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Leeds are not alone, then. Rasmus Kristensen\u2019s Frankfurt want Diarra<\/a>, but so do a host of Premier League clubs according to a recent report. Everton, Brighton, Nottingham Forest and Villa all want to sign Diarra.<\/p>\n

Leeds seem to be leading the race for Diarra simply by making a bid for him and holding talks over a deal to land Diarra\u2019s signature. But this one seems difficult to do with Leeds chiefs so far unconvinced.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United seem to be focusing on a new midfielder and a starting striker after completing deals for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,71596,1860,100,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-198062","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-habib-diarra","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-transfer-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114711983852654167","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198062","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=198062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}