{"id":23420,"date":"2025-04-16T00:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T00:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/23420\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T00:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T00:53:10","slug":"leeds-united-target-germany-international-with-top-level-title-winning-experience-as-daniel-farke-sets-sights-on-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/23420\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United target Germany international with top-level title-winning experience as Daniel Farke sets sights on Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong><b>Leeds are looking to improve in six positions in the summer transfer window<\/b><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong><b>Daniel Farke knows a star with title-winning experience who plays in Germany\u00a0<\/b><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>LISTEN NOW:\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailymail.lnk.to\/its-all-kicking-offDM\">It&#8217;s All Kicking Off!<\/a> Is it fair for Man United or Tottenham to go straight into the Champions League if they win the Europa League?\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By SIMON JONES <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  16:00 EDT, 15 April 2025   |  Updated:  16:00 EDT, 15 April 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/leeds-united\/index.html\" id=\"mol-73fd74d0-1a33-11f0-a5ff-ab17de05500e\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds<\/a> United\u00a0have checked on Borussia Monchengladbach captain Julian Weigl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The 29-year old is well known by Leeds boss <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/daniel-farke\/index.html\" id=\"mol-740033f0-1a33-11f0-a5ff-ab17de05500e\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Farke<\/a> but, ideally, the club want a younger profile ahead of a potential summer rebuild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Promotion from the Championship will dictate who Leeds pursue but they have already earmarked the need to sign a new goalkeeper, a centre-back, left-back, midfielder, winger and striker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Weigl is a holding midfielder who has been capped six times by Germany and was signed by Farke for Gladbach from Benfica, where he won the Primeira Liga title in 2022-23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The lack of a top finisher and goalkeeper alternative has slowed Leeds\u2019 drive for automatic promotion somewhat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">They are top of the Championship on goal difference ahead of <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/burnley\/index.html\" id=\"mol-73fc6360-1a33-11f0-a5ff-ab17de05500e\" rel=\"noopener\">Burnley<\/a> but have dropped points along the way after being in strong positions.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-1ac1840cd4fab122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97317029-0-image-m-23_1744746355224.jpg\" height=\"429\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Leeds United have checked on\u00a0Borussia Monchengladbach captain and midfielder Julian Weigl\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Leeds United have checked on\u00a0Borussia Monchengladbach captain and midfielder Julian Weigl<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-c78245ac838de015\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97317045-0-image-a-24_1744746459781.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Daniel Farke's side have earmarked six positions that they would like to improve, though the outcome of the promotion race will determine what they do in the transfer market\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Daniel Farke&#8217;s side have earmarked six positions that they would like to improve, though the outcome of the promotion race will determine what they do in the transfer market<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Leeds spent \u00a318.8m on agents&#8217; fees between February 2024 and February 2025, more than Premier League Spurs, Everton, Wolves, Brighton and Brentford.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">They have been hampered by PSR restrictions in recent windows but will be able to spend this summer with the target being a return to the top flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">That could come soon if rivals Sheffield United continue to slip up over this coming Easter weekend.<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Leeds United target Germany international with top-level title-winning experience as Daniel Farke sets sights on Premier League<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds are looking to improve in six positions in the summer transfer window Daniel Farke knows a star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,92,1385,393,94,4884,1860,2922,101,93,100,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-23420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-daniel-farke","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-leeds","15":"tag-leeds-united","16":"tag-premier-league","17":"tag-sport","18":"tag-transfer-news","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114344912868677018","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23420","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=23420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}