{"id":262145,"date":"2025-07-13T17:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T17:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/262145\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T17:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T17:43:10","slug":"patrick-bamford-names-the-one-leeds-united-player-that-is-flying-during-pre-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/262145\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Bamford names the one Leeds United player that is &#8216;flying&#8217; during pre-season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Incredibly, it is just six days until Leeds United will take on Manchester United in the club\u2019s first pre-season friendly fixture of the summer in Stockholm\u2019s Strawberry Arena.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leedsunited.news\/club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds<\/a> returned to pre-season on Monday and after some initial testing, have been put through their paces by <a href=\"http:\/\/leedsunited.news\/club\/manager\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Farke<\/a> and the German\u2019s coaching staff at <a href=\"http:\/\/leedsunited.news\/club\/stadium\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elland Road<\/a> ahead of the 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>It is now just over a month until Leeds return to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/tag\/premier-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League <\/a>and host Everton at Goodison Park, which will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/news\/leeds-united-to-be-reunited-with-a-familiar-face-as-opening-premier-league-fixture-is-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an interesting evening for both the returning Angus Kinnear,<\/a> and Leeds\u2019 Jack Harrison.<\/p>\n<p>But until then, the Leeds squad will be focusing on getting fit with games against Manchester United, Villarreal and AC Milan ahead of them as well as a trip to Germany to undergo Farke\u2019s training camp.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2202019065-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Largie Ramazani warms up for Leeds United against West Brom.\" class=\"wp-image-81920\" \/>Photo by MI News\/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesHow has Largie Ramazani coped with Leeds\u2019 pre-season?<\/p>\n<p>If there was one player to pick from the promotion celebrations and the parade for his partying, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/tag\/largie-ramazani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Largie Ramazani<\/a>. Dancing, showboating and even presenting Patrick Bamford as a guitarist in an Irish bar.<\/p>\n<p>Ramazani and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/tag\/patrick-bamford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bamford<\/a> have struck up a friendship since the \u00a310m winger arrived at Elland Road from Spanish side Almeria last summer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/analysis\/early-predicted-leeds-united-xi-to-play-man-united-in-six-days-time-three-players-set-to-miss-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramazani is in line to start in Sweden<\/a>, with Willy Gnonto yet to return.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/video.leedsunited.com\/video\/dm9kJTdDMF90em11YXZraCU3QyUyRnBhZ2UlM0ZzbHVnJTNEaG9tZSU3Q2hvbWUlMkZsaXN0JTJGMCUyRmZlZWQ%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">LUTV\u2019s channel<\/a>, commentator Bryn Law asked Ramazani: \u201cHave you been suffering Largie, or are you okay?\u201d, to which Bamford interjected: \u201cHe\u2019s been flying, been flying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ramazani continued: \u201cI\u2019m flying right now. It\u2019s still tough, I\u2019m getting there but I just want to be more fit. Adapt, obviously it\u2019s hard but also, continue. The more you get fit now, the easier you start the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2211922613-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Leeds United striker Patrick Bamford warming up against Bristol City.\" class=\"wp-image-84363\" \/>Photo by Robbie Jay Barratt \u2013 AMA\/Getty Images <\/p>\n<p>MORE LEEDS UNITED STORIES<\/p>\n<p>  Largie Ramazani has an opportunity, but will he take it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/transfers\/what-manor-solomon-has-now-told-tottenham-with-leeds-united-move-still-deemed-possible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manor Solomon\u2019s return to Tottenham<\/a> and Leeds\u2019 focus on defence in the early part of the season means Ramazani is likely to get a chance from the left wing, during the summer. It gives him an opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>This is a player that showed huge talent and glimpses of magic last season, but was also on the end of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/news\/daniel-farke-not-happy-with-magic-leeds-united-player-who-lost-his-focus-in-his-last-game-at-elland-road\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public criticism from Daniel Farke at times<\/a>. Injury hampered Ramazani just at the wrong time in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>With fixtures coming up and Leeds yet to bring in attacking reinforcements other than Lukas Nmecha on a free, Ramazani is the obvious choice on the left wing with Gnonto given extended leave this summer.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Incredibly, it is just six days until Leeds United will take on Manchester United in the club\u2019s first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,12436,1860,2924,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-262145","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-largie-ramazani","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-patrick-bamford","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114847168270365107","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262145","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=262145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}