{"id":215595,"date":"2025-06-26T10:07:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/215595\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T10:07:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:07:21","slug":"sheffield-united-leicester-city-middlesbrough-race-to-sign-luton-millenic-alli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/215595\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield United, Leicester City &#038; Middlesbrough race to sign Luton Millenic Alli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ruben-Selles-Millenic-Alli-Sheffield-United-1140x641.png\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ruben Selles Millenic Alli Sheffield United\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 50%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Credit: Imago)<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750932441_508_94399bd7ab42abd455aa00aa2aebfd9d\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" alt=\"Pete O'Rourke, Transfer Correspondent\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p> Thu 26 June 2025 10:10, UK <\/p>\n<p>Sheffield United, Leicester and Middlesbrough are eyeing moves for Luton Town attacker Millenic Alli, <strong>sources have told Football Insider.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alli, 25, impressed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/luton-town\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luton<\/a> at the back end of last season, scoring four goals in six starts for a struggling Hatters team.<\/p>\n<p>The forward joined Luton in the January transfer window after supplying Exeter with 12 goals in the first half of the 2024-25 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Irishman proved he could step up and score goals in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Championship<\/a> with his move to Kenilworth Road, but Luton were relegated to League One last month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Championship trio race to sign Luton star<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/sheffield-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sheffield United<\/a>, Leicester and Middlesbrough are weighing up moves for the powerful forward as they look to add to their attacking options ahead of the new season.<\/p>\n<p>He has made just 16 appearances across all competitions for Luton but could get an instant return to the Championship before the 1 September deadline later this summer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>MORE FOOTBALL INSIDER STORIES<\/p>\n<p>Alli arrived at Exeter from non-league Halifax Town in January 2024 and has enjoyed a quick rise in stature after scoring 16 goals in 43 games across all competitions for the Grecians.<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Appearances (Starts)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>49 (31)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Minutes Played<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>3080<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Goals<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Assists<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Yellow Cards<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Alli\u2019s stats in the 2024-25 campaign (Exeter and Luton, all competitions)<\/p>\n<p>The Dublin-born ace cost Luton a fee widely reported to be around \u00a31.5million in the January window.<\/p>\n<p>He primarily plays as a centre-forward but can also star on both flanks.<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield United, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/leicester-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leicester<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/middlesbrough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middlesbrough<\/a> will all be hoping to be in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/premier-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> promotion mix next season after changes in the dugout at each club.<\/p>\n<p>Ruben Selles has taken over at Bramall Lane, Boro have appointed Rob Edwards \u2013 and Leicester are still waiting to replace Ruud van Nistelrooy ahead of the players\u2019 return for pre-season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Millenic-Alli-Exeter-1-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"Bristol City Cardiff City Blackburn Rovers\" class=\"wp-image-584094\" \/>Alli only left Exeter for Luton in the January transfer window. (Credit: Imago)<strong>Leicester face fight to keep star man<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0<strong>Football Insider\u00a0<\/strong>has revealed (14 June) that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/exclusive-leicester-face-stephy-mavididi-fight-as-clubs-line-up-transfer-bids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leicester face a fight to keep hold of winger Stephy Mavididi<\/a>\u00a0this summer.<\/p>\n<p>A move for Alli could come as the Foxes prepare to lose Mavididi \u2013 who spearheaded their last promotion campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Atalanta, Bologna and Villarreal \u2013 as well as English clubs \u2013 are ready to move for the skilful attacker.<\/p>\n<p>Mavididi contributed six goals and one assist across 33 appearances in all competitions last season.<\/p>\n<p>For more Sheffield United and exclusive news, follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/insiderfootball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> or join our brand new <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaKxj144yltNlAd6Bd1Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp Channel<\/a> for instant updates to be sent straight to your phone.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Related Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credit: Imago) Thu 26 June 2025 10:10, UK Sheffield United, Leicester and Middlesbrough are eyeing moves for Luton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,9030,393,4884,12902,200,35556,2923,1620,4239,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-215595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-championship","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-league-one","13":"tag-leicester-city","14":"tag-luton-town","15":"tag-middlesbrough","16":"tag-sheffield","17":"tag-sheffield-united","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114749115582759449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215595","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=215595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}