{"id":217836,"date":"2025-06-27T05:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T05:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/217836\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T05:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T05:48:18","slug":"fulham-outline-rodrigo-muniz-transfer-stance-following-leeds-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/217836\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulham &#8216;outline&#8217; Rodrigo Muniz transfer stance following Leeds bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fulham reportedly set out their transfer stance for Rodrigo Muniz, who is attracting interest from newly-promoted Leeds United.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:1.38; margin-top:16px; margin-bottom:16px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/fulham\/\" title=\"More Fulham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"autotag\">Fulham<\/strong><\/a> reportedly have no plans to sell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/rodrigo-muniz\/\" title=\"More Rodrigo Muniz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"autotag\">Rodrigo Muniz<\/strong><\/a> this summer despite interest from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/leeds-united\/\" title=\"More Leeds United\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"autotag\">Leeds United<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/daniel-farke\/\" title=\"More Daniel Farke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"autotag\">Daniel Farke<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s side have identified Muniz as a target for their summer business, as they continue to prepare for their Premier League return.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6429049\/2025\/06\/18\/leeds-jaka-bijol-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Athletic<\/a> reported that the newly-promoted side submitted a bid for the Brazilian striker earlier in the transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds tabled a \u00a326m transfer offer, plus add-ons, but they ultimately saw their proposal knocked back by Fulham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"imgI\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fulham duo Andreas Pereira and Rodrigo Muniz in February 2025.\" class=\"vanilla-lazyload article-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/https:\/\/sportsmole-media-prod.s3.gra.io.cloud.ovh.net\/uploads\/2025\/06\/imago1059272245-685525659fe459.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fulham set out Muniz transfer stance<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height:1.38; margin-top:16px; margin-bottom:16px\">It remains to be seen whether Leeds will return with an improved bid, although they may find it difficult to convince Fulham to part ways with Muniz.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/live-blog\/11095\/13279313\/fulham-transfers-latest-news-rumours-and-gossip-live-updates-goals-and-highlights?postid=9790233#liveblog-body\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sky Sports News<\/a>, the West London club have no intention of letting Muniz leave Craven Cottage this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/marco-silva\/\" title=\"More Marco Silva\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"autotag\">Marco Silva<\/strong><\/a> still views Muniz as an important part of his plans for the 2025-26 season, effectively ruling out the possibility of a summer exit.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old is under contract until the summer of 2026, although Fulham have the option to activate a one-year extension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"imgI\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fulham manager Marco Silva on March 16, 2025\" class=\"vanilla-lazyload article-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/https:\/\/sportsmole-media-prod.s3.gra.io.cloud.ovh.net\/25\/11\/marco-silva.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Why are Fulham keen to keep Muniz?<\/p>\n<p>Muniz largely had to settle for a squad role in the 2024-25 campaign, starting just eight of his 31 Premier League appearances.<\/p>\n<p>However, he still managed to produce a number of useful contributions for Silva&#8217;s side with eight top-flight goals, including five strikes in his final nine league appearances of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Silva is seemingly keen to keep Muniz, so he can continue to challenge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/raul-jimenez\/\" title=\"More Raul Jimenez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"autotag\">Raul Jimenez<\/strong><\/a> for the number nine spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fulham will also be reluctant to allow another striker to depart once Carlo Vinicius leaves when his contract expires at the end of the month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ID:576253:1false2false3false: from db desktop :LenBod:collect3566:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fulham reportedly set out their transfer stance for Rodrigo Muniz, who is attracting interest from newly-promoted Leeds United.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,4230,393,68644,94,707,1625,2826,4884,1860,2922,22138,7126,101,4151,93,68303,10938,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-217836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cycling","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-epl","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-formula-1","14":"tag-fulham","15":"tag-golf","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-leeds","18":"tag-leeds-united","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-olympics","21":"tag-premier-league","22":"tag-rugby","23":"tag-sport","24":"tag-sports-mole","25":"tag-teams","26":"tag-tennis","27":"tag-uk","28":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114753759467835384","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217836","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=217836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}