{"id":259841,"date":"2025-07-12T20:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T20:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/259841\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T20:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T20:33:11","slug":"24m-roadblock-arises-in-mateo-josephs-leeds-united-future-as-european-club-make-final-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/259841\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a324m roadblock arises in Mateo Joseph\u2019s Leeds United future as European club make ‘final push’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One player who could leave Leeds United this summer is Mateo Joseph, with the Spaniard looking at the bigger picture.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daniel Farke<\/a> currently has two striker options this summer, and it has been confirmed that Leeds will sign another striker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This will leave Joseph<\/a> questioning his status in the squad, as there is no doubt the 21-year-old struggled for game time last campaign.<\/p>\n

He still contributed when he could to Leeds<\/a>, but just 11 league starts last season doesn\u2019t exactly represent him in good light.<\/p>\n

Farke admitted Joseph failed to take chances<\/a> when they were given to him, which has led to the striker ultimately searching for the exit door, and one club have been hot on his radar.<\/p>\n

\"MateoPhoto by George Wood\/Getty ImagesRoadblock emerges in Mateo Joseph\u2019s Leeds United exit to Real Betis<\/p>\n

The club who have been hunting down the youngster\u2019s signature for a while is Real Betis.<\/p>\n

Betis had a \u00a310m bid rejected by Leeds<\/a>, but now the Spanish outfit are trying again.<\/p>\n

This will be partly down to his success for Spain U21s, where he shone in the EURO U21 tournament this summer, alongside other promising stars.<\/p>\n

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Joseph wants to go back to Spain<\/a>, and Betis is the club trying to make it happen, as Leeds are proving to be tricky.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been claimed that the Whites have been stubborn as Leeds rejected \u00a36.9m for Joseph<\/a>, with \u00a38.5m the figure now wanted, despite rejecting a \u00a310m figure in the winter.<\/p>\n

Well, El Desmarque<\/a> are reporting on Joseph\u2019s situation, but this time Leeds aren\u2019t causing the problems with Betis proving to be their own downfall.<\/p>\n

They explain that Joseph is very much the main target for Betis to bolster their forward line, and they are keeping \u2018talks alive\u2019 with Leeds for him. <\/p>\n

However, the roadblock in this deal is Betis striker Borja Iglesias, whose salary blocks an incoming for the time being.<\/p>\n

Iglesias, who signed for \u00a324m in 2019, is set to be the striker replaced by Joseph, but it\u2019s been made clear this will be Betis\u2019 final push\u2019 for the Leeds youngster.<\/p>\n

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Leeds have no choice but to sell Joseph this summer<\/p>\n

It would be quite shocking if Joseph wasn\u2019t sold this summer.<\/p>\n

The striker is currently the third-choice striker, but his status will slip once again if another forward is signed, giving Joseph a clear answer to leave.<\/p>\n

Not only will this benefit the player, but Joseph\u2019s sale can help Leeds\u2019 PSR<\/a> with an extra \u00a342.5m soon to become available.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an unfortunate ending for a striker who has shown plenty of promise, as Leeds could regret his permanent exit.<\/p>\n

But if the Whites want to push on, this is the only way forward in making sure the 49ers<\/a> have a successful transfer window.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One player who could leave Leeds United this summer is Mateo Joseph, with the Spaniard looking at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,40939,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-259841","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-mateo-joseph","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114842174254892062","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259841","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=259841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}