{"id":22013,"date":"2025-04-15T12:51:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T12:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/22013\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T12:51:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T12:51:37","slug":"english-club-make-u-turn-on-transfer-agreement-with-leeds-united-player-is-now-left-in-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/22013\/","title":{"rendered":"English club make u-turn on transfer agreement with Leeds United, player is now left in limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Leeds United can now start to dream of Premier League football next season after the weekend\u2019s results and it may start to reflect how the club operates ahead of the summer window.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leedsunited.news\/club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds\u2019<\/a> summer could have gone one of two ways. Failure to go up, and Leeds would have had to sell some of their best stars like last season to cope without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/tag\/premier-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> TV money in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/tag\/championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That, and parachute payments reduce from 45% to 20% in the third year. But promotion means the club will need to invest in order to survive, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/news\/adam-pope-predicts-how-many-signings-leeds-united-will-make-if-promoted-will-cost-well-over-100m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Pope reckons six major signings are needed at Elland Road<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But one transfer agreement has been put in place regardless of what division Leeds are in, and that is the permanent exit of one player currently out on loan at a Championship club \u2013 namely, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/tag\/sam-greenwood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sam Greenwood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1435912457-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by George Wood\/Getty Images\" class=\"wp-image-61576\" \/>Photo by George Wood\/Getty ImagesPreston make Sam Greenwood u-turn after striking Leeds deal<\/p>\n<p>Greenwood joined Preston on loan from Leeds last summer having spent the 2023-24 season on loan at Middlesbrough. Of course, on Saturday, Greenwood was ineligible to play against his parent club.<\/p>\n<p>Former Leeds chairman Peter Ridsdale is now in charge at Preston, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/transfers\/the-49ers-have-already-agreed-a-fee-for-striker-to-leave-leeds-united-in-the-summer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ridsdale confirmed there is an agreement with Leeds to sign Greenwood permanently<\/a>. Ridsdale says the numbers are all complete.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, he said it is simply down to Paul Heckingbottom and Greenwood \u2013 whether they want to press the green button to complete a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lep.co.uk\/sport\/football\/preston-north-end\/preston-north-end-transfer-leeds-united-news-peter-ridsdale-sam-greenwood-4975505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a31.5m<\/a> deal. Well, it appears Preston do not want to exercise the option.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun\u2019s Alan Nixon reports on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/preston-unlikely-126513546\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Patreon<\/a> that Preston have chosen not to sign Greenwood beyond his loan in order to save cash and spend it elsewhere \u2013 like on another loanee, Kaine Kesler-Hayden.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>MORE LEEDS UNITED STORIES<\/p>\n<p>  Sam Greenwood left in limbo \u2013 details of Leeds contract<\/p>\n<p>Bought for \u00a33m from Arsenal, Greenwood starred for the Leeds U21\u2019s alongside the likes of Joe Gelhardt, Crysencio Summerville, Charlie Cresswell and Pascal Struijk \u2013 and clocked up 35 senior outings at Leeds.<\/p>\n<p>But under <a href=\"http:\/\/leedsunited.news\/club\/manager\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Farke<\/a>, he\u2019s had no chance. Instead, he\u2019s been ushered out on loan to Boro and Preston where he has scored 12 goals and created six more in 81 appearances for the two sides over two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Not enough to earn a permanent Preston deal, Greenwood is now left in limbo and set to return to Leeds where he has a contract until the summer fo 2026. A cut-price summer exit looks on the cards for him.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United can now start to dream of Premier League football next season after the weekend\u2019s results and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,14148,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-22013","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-sam-greenwood","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114342073847622273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22013","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=22013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}