{"id":259675,"date":"2025-07-12T19:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T19:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/259675\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T19:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T19:02:13","slug":"former-aston-villa-star-is-now-tempted-to-join-leeds-uniteds-rivals-after-snubbing-elland-road-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/259675\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Aston Villa star is now tempted to join Leeds United’s rivals after snubbing Elland Road move"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a manner that\u2019s become all too familiar this summer, Leeds United could now see one of their rumoured transfer targets join a Premier League rival.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leeds United<\/a> have made a steady start to the summer transfer window. Having signed Gabriel Gudmundsson in a \u00a310million deal<\/a> from Lille, Daniel Farke<\/a> now has four new faces through the Elland Road<\/a> doors.<\/p>\n

But many more are needed to give Leeds a fighting chance in the Premier League next season, especially with their fellow promoted teams Burnley and Sunderland making strong moves in the transfer market.<\/p>\n

The Black Cats in particular are shaping up nicely, albeit at the expense of Leeds. Already this summer, three Leeds United targets have joined Sunderland<\/a> in Reinildo Mandava, Noah Sadiki, and the \u00a330million Habib Diarra.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not only Sunderland who are getting in on Leeds\u2019 summer transfer wishlist, with West Ham now looking to capitalise.<\/p>\n

\"DouglasPhoto by Joris Verwijst\/BSR Agency\/Getty ImagesDouglas Luiz transfer update following Leeds United snub<\/p>\n

Douglas Luiz<\/a> emerged as an unlikely transfer target for the Whites earlier this summer. It was reported that Leeds United were offered the chance to sign Luiz<\/a> following his failed move from Aston Villa to Juventus last summer, with the Italian giants rumoured to be willing to take a financial hit on the \u00a342million signing.<\/p>\n

But subsequent reports revealed how Luiz wasn\u2019t interested in joining Leeds United<\/a>. Instead, Italian outlet Gazzetta dello Sport<\/a> now report that Luiz is now \u2018tempted\u2019 by West Ham, who are the latest team making a move to sign the 27-year-old Brazilian international, as the Hammers make their move.<\/p>\n

Gazzetta dello Sport add that talks are underway and that all parties are keen to see the deal go through. West Ham though will have to pay a pricey loan fee of \u20ac10million (\u00a38.64million), with an obligation to buy that could cost Graham Potter\u2019s side up to \u20ac30million (\u00a325.92million).<\/p>\n

\"LeedsPhoto by Alex Dodd \u2013 CameraSport via Getty Images <\/p>\n

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Leeds United are rapidly running out of midfield transfer targets<\/p>\n

Sadiki and Diarra were both midfield targets for Farke: specifically they\u2019re more holding midfielders, with the no.10 positions being an entirely different issue for Farke to sort out this summer.<\/p>\n

Sunderland outbid Leeds United in the race for Diarra<\/a> and with Luiz, the Whites simply weren\u2019t of interest, with Luiz no doubt wanting West Ham as they\u2019re a more established Premier League side than Leeds are right now.<\/p>\n

But he joins an alarmingly growing list of midfield targets who Leeds have missed out on this summer.<\/p>\n

The most talked about one of late is Sean Longstaff. Leeds have had multiple bids rejected for Longstaff<\/a> as Newcastle United appear to be pricing the Whites out of a move for the midfielder.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, RC Lens midfielder Neil El Aynaoui has agreed a move to Roma<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Farke could yet be left to sign a midfielder who isn\u2019t exactly near the top of his wanted list this summer, or forced to go out and find another one who fits the bill.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a manner that\u2019s become all too familiar this summer, Leeds United could now see one of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,8905,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-259675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-douglas-luiz","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114841816067223698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259675","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=259675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}