{"id":205561,"date":"2025-06-22T16:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T16:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/205561\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T16:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T16:50:15","slug":"nick-pope-to-clear-medical-as-leeds-united-make-transfer-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/205561\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Pope &#8216;to clear medical&#8217; as Leeds United make transfer move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leeds-United-Nick-Pope-1140x641.png\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Leeds United Nick Pope\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 50%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Credit: Hasan Karim)<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750022051_327_Untitled-design-4-150x150.jpg\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" alt=\"Dr Rajpal Brar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p> Sun 22 June 2025 17:10, UK <\/p>\n<p><strong>Leeds United have been linked with a move for Newcastle goalkeeper Nick Pope as they look to replace Illan Meslier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/author\/drrajpalbrar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Rajpal Brar<\/a>, an injury expert, has assessed the Englishman\u2019s knee injury from last season, which kept him out of action for over a month.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old played 28 out of the Magpies\u2019 38 Premier League games under Eddie Howe.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Illan-Meslier-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Illan Meslier\" class=\"wp-image-191903\" \/>Meslier has endured a tough few seasons. (Credit: Imago)<strong>Pope to clear his medical despite his knee injury<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Newcastle keeper should have no issues clearing his medical despite his knee injury last season, according to Dr Brar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/transfers\/nick-pope-decides-on-leeds-transfer-as-newcastle-approach-made\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds have made an approach to sign Pope<\/a> but it was rebuffed by the St James\u2019 Park outfit. (Chronicle Live, 3 June)<\/p>\n<p>The Englishman is not understood to be keen on moving this summer as his side qualified for the Champions League.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<tr>ClubAppearancesGoals ConcededClean Sheets<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Burnley<\/td>\n<td>155<\/td>\n<td>186<\/td>\n<td>53<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Newcastle<\/td>\n<td>95<\/td>\n<td>93<\/td>\n<td>35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Charlton<\/td>\n<td>38<\/td>\n<td>51<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>York City<\/td>\n<td>24<\/td>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bury<\/td>\n<td>22<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cambridge Utd.<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Aldershot<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Pope\u2019s career stats.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking exclusively to\u00a0<strong>MOT Leeds News<\/strong>, Dr Brar, a specialist in Physical Therapy and a Sports Scientist, said about Pope: \u201cLeeds may take a closer look at his recent knee injury and if there\u2019s anything outside normal variance when it comes to the joint. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, I do not see this causing issues with him clearing the medical. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe played the last three months of the season without any problems and that\u2019s always a positive.\u201c<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/daniel-farke-1-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Farke\" class=\"wp-image-189273\" \/>Daniel Farke will be keen on a new goalkeeper. (Credit: Imago)<strong>Leeds United need to get a new keeper this summer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite Pope not seemingly interested on a move, it\u2019s imperative for <a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds United<\/a> to sign a new keeper this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Meslier has struggled and <a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/tag\/karl-darlow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karl Darlow<\/a> cannot be the go-to option in the Premier League as they\u2019ll need a better calibre of stopper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/transfers\/leeds-united-given-edge-to-seal-aaron-ramsdale-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds could be given the edge to sign Aaron Ramsdale<\/a> from Southampton and he could become a priority in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n<p>They could even cash in on Meslier and use those funds to strengthen other areas.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaFloxY1SWsv0yud4k0u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MOT Leeds News WhatsApp channel<\/a>\u00a0and turn on notifications to have all the latest, breaking Leeds United news sent straight to your phone.<\/p>\n<p>Related Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credit: Hasan Karim) Sun 22 June 2025 17:10, UK Leeds United have been linked with a move for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16407,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-205561","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-leeds","12":"tag-nick-pope","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114728050929711468","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205561","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=205561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}