{"id":226261,"date":"2025-06-30T09:21:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T09:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226261\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T09:21:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T09:21:24","slug":"leeds-united-transfer-news-and-rumours-as-three-new-players-linked-including-two-brazilians-and-willy-gnontos-pal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226261\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United transfer news and rumours as three new players linked including two Brazilians and Willy Gnonto’s pal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leeds United are reeling from the disappointment of failing to sign Strasbourg captain Habib Diarra, and the double knock that sees a direct Premier League rival strike a deal to land him.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunderland have completed a \u00a335m move to land Diarra<\/a>, with Leeds refusing to pay over the odds<\/a> for the Senegal international. Leeds made two offers for Diarra<\/a>, the second of which only reached \u00a323.9m.<\/p>\n

Leeds<\/a> do not seem close to making any signings as things stand, but they continue to be linked with new additions on a regular basis. On Sunday, there were three new players to be linked with The Whites:<\/p>\n

\"LucasPhoto by Eurasia Sport Images\/Getty ImagesLeeds United transfer news from Sunday (29\/06):Leeds look to take advantage of Lyon disaster<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lyon have been relegated to Ligue 2 by the DNGC, France\u2019s Football Finance Committee. That is despite the sale of John Textor\u2019s Crystal Palace shares, with Textor in majority control of the French giants.<\/p>\n

It is expected they will now host a fire sale of players and reports say Leeds have made Brazilian stopper Lucas Perri a \u2018priority\u2019<\/a>. However, Leeds face competition from newly-promoted Saudi Arabian side Neom.<\/p>\n

Brighton giant added to Leeds shortlist despite Jaka Bijol\u2019s arrival<\/strong>\"IgorPhoto by Clive Mason\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Leeds may have signed Jaka Bijol at centre-back, but the need for another remains. That is because Max Wober has been told he can leave<\/a>, while Pascal Struijk could be sold if the club need a PSR boost<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well, if Leeds do opt to sign another centre-back, then Brighton\u2019s Brazilian defender Igor is said to be a target<\/a>. Wolves and Crystal Palace are also interested, but Spanish side Real Sociedad are winning the race.<\/p>\n

Willy Gnonto\u2019s pal becomes a \u00a310m Leeds target<\/strong><\/p>\n

Willy Gnonto <\/a>played a key role as Leeds got promoted and won the Championship<\/a> title, but endured a dismal Euro U21 campaign and was sent off as Germany knocked Italy out of the competition.<\/p>\n

\"MattiaPhoto by ANP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The same for Mattia Zanotti. A brilliant season, followed by a red card against Germany for the 21\u2019s. That hasn\u2019t put Leeds off, who want Lugano\u2019s \u00a310m-rated Zanotti<\/a> \u2013 now a teammate of Gjanni Alioski.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United are reeling from the disappointment of failing to sign Strasbourg captain Habib Diarra, and the double…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,89194,1860,89195,89196,100,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-226261","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-igor","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-lucas-perri","14":"tag-mattia-zanotti","15":"tag-transfer-news","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114771583674278972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226261","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=226261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}