{"id":258803,"date":"2025-07-12T11:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T11:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/258803\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T11:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T11:31:14","slug":"fury-for-daniel-farke-as-17m-sean-longstaff-alternative-snubs-leeds-united-and-agrees-roma-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/258803\/","title":{"rendered":"Fury for Daniel Farke as \u00a317m Sean Longstaff alternative snubs Leeds United and agrees Roma move"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a summer transfer window that\u2019s rapidly become a frustrating one for Leeds United, there\u2019s now another player who Daniel Farke likes, who has agreed a move to another club.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leeds United<\/a> have seen a flurry of recent transfer targets join other clubs, with most of them heading to Premier League rivals Sunderland.<\/p>\n

Sunderland have signed several Leeds United targets<\/a> in the last week or so including Habib Diarra, Noah Sadiki and Reinildo Mandava, and the north-east club don\u2019t look set to stop there either.<\/p>\n

Recent reports have revealed how Sunderland have joined Leeds in the race to sign Jeremie Boga<\/a> from Nice, with Leeds having a \u00a313million bid on the table to sign the former Chelsea man this summer.<\/p>\n

So far, four new players have arrived at Elland Road<\/a>. Leeds United completed the signing of Gabriel Gudmundsson<\/a> this week to take the tally up to four, with more expected in the coming weeks as Daniel Farke<\/a> readies his side for the start of pre-season.<\/p>\n

\"NeilPhoto by FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI\/AFP via Getty ImagesNeil El Aynaoui has agreed move to Roma amid Leeds United transfer rumours<\/p>\n

One name linked recently is Neil El Aynaoui. Leeds United are interested in signing El Aynaoui<\/a> from RC Lens, but so too are Roma. Though a recent revelation from Fabrizio Romano revealed how Roma have seen a bid rejected for El Aynaoui<\/a> this summer, with suggestions that Lens want \u00a327million for El Aynaoui.<\/p>\n

Now though, emerging reports in France have claimed that El Aynaoui has agreed a move to Roma. Foot Sur<\/a> write that the 24-year-old Moroccan has agreed to join the Italian giants \u2018after advanced talks in recent days\u2019, but suggest that the price tag remains a sticking point between the two clubs. They say that Lens are \u2018demanding more than \u20ac20million\u2019, or \u00a317.33million.<\/p>\n

On top of that, El Aynaoui \u2018is now the subject of internal discussions regarding a contract extension and a salary in\u2019 per the same report, with Roma looking at other options whilst working on finalising a deal for the former Nancy man.<\/p>\n

\"SeanPhoto by Michelle Mercer\/Newcastle United via Getty Images <\/p>\n

MORE LEEDS UNITED STORIES<\/p>\n

What is the latest on Leeds United\u2019s pursuit of Sean Longstaff?<\/p>\n

El Aynaoui is a more holding central midfielder, or a box-to-box midfielder, which is a role that Farke really needs to sign someone for this summer. And El Aynaoui seems like one of a few candidates to fill that role, along with Sean Longstaff.<\/p>\n

In recent days, Longstaff has been heavily linked with a move to Leeds United<\/a>. But reports say that Newcastle United have rejected three bids for Longstaff<\/a>, much to the anger of both Leeds and Newcastle fans: the latter want him to go play regularly somewhere.<\/p>\n

So for Leeds, El Aynaoui seems like a definite backup option in case a deal for Longstaff doesn\u2019t materialise, which right now is looking likely to be the case. But for El Aynaoui to have agreed a move to Roma is bad news for Leeds.<\/p>\n

This seems to be happening quite a lot recently, though expect Farke and his recruitment team to have a long list of transfer targets for this summer\u2019s window.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a summer transfer window that\u2019s rapidly become a frustrating one for Leeds United, there\u2019s now another player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,98155,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-258803","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-neil-el-aynaoui","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114840042452503053","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258803","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=258803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}