{"id":269820,"date":"2025-07-17T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269820\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:00:16","slug":"another-international-player-now-set-to-snub-leeds-united-for-serie-a-switch-as-napoli-move-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269820\/","title":{"rendered":"Another international player now set to snub Leeds United for Serie A switch as Napoli move looms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Leeds United have been busy on the transfer front this summer, with numerous new signings over the line already.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Elland Road outfit have officially signed Jaka Bijol, Gabriel Gudmundsson, Sebastiaan Bornauw and Lukas Nmecha so far.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/leeds-set-to-sign-terrific-player-who-pep-guardiola-once-said-his-manchester-city-side-couldnt-deal-with\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sean Longstaff is reportedly set for a move to Leeds<\/a>, while <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/club-insiders-believe-their-dynamic-international-player-will-join-leeds-this-summer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anton Stach is said to have agreed terms with Leeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/leeds-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds<\/a> appear to have missed out on another of their targets, with Antonio Conte\u2019s Napoli seemingly winning the race.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-1463123345-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Vanja Milinkovic-Savic of Torino FC grabs the ball from the toe of Beto of Udinese Calcio during the Serie A match between Torino FC and Udinese Calcio at Stadio Olimpico di Torino on February 05, 2023.\" class=\"wp-image-742115\" \/>Photo by Jonathan Moscrop\/Getty ImagesVanja Milinkovic-Savic closing in on Napoli move<\/p>\n<p>The player in question is Torino goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/leeds-hold-fresh-talks-over-underrated-world-cup-goalkeeper-he-could-be-theirs-for-around-18m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vanja Milinkovic-Savic, who Leeds have been in talks<\/a> over.<\/p>\n<p>Fabrizio Romano has taken to X to say Napoli are close to completing a deal with Torino for the \u201cunderrated\u201d Milinkovic-Savic.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbia international had agreed to join Napoli in June and talks between the two clubs are now said to be at the final stages.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Napoli winger Cyril Ngonge is set to move in the opposite direction, with a verbal agreement now in place for the Belgian.  <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"ro\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd35 Napoli are now close to completing deal for Vanja Milinkovi\u0107-Savi\u0107 from Torino after verbal agreement in place for Ngonge.<\/p>\n<p>Milinkovi\u0107-Savi\u0107 said yes to Napoli proposal in June and club to club agreement now at final stages. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jKOYRqwOO7\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/jKOYRqwOO7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1945820846766866481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/leeds-target-involved-in-his-clubs-11-0-friendly-win-after-personal-terms-agreed-with-whites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leeds target involved in his club\u2019s 11-0 friendly win after personal terms agreed with Whites<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other goalkeepers in Leeds United\u2019s sights<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/illan-meslier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Illan Meslier\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0Leeds future is uncertain after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/daniel-farke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Farke<\/a>\u00a0dropped the French goalkeeper from his starting XI late last season.<\/p>\n<p>Although Milinkovic-Savic looks set to go elsewhere \u2013 along with fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/fabrizio-romano-claims-title-winning-goalkeeper-wanted-by-leeds-is-now-close-to-serie-a-move\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds target Daniel Peretz, who could join Genoa<\/a> \u2013 there are other targets in the Whites\u2019 sights.<\/p>\n<p>Lyon goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/leeds-united-now-keen-on-signing-player-crystal-palace-ignored-a-clause-to-buy-for-just-3-9m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lucas Perri remains a target for Leeds<\/a>. Royal Antwerp\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/17m-leeds-united-target-has-already-said-it-would-be-special-to-join-manchester-united-red-devils-are-keen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Semme Lammens has also been linked with Leeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United have been busy on the transfer front this summer, with numerous new signings over the line&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,162,20110,4884,1860,2922,16,15,96238],"class_list":{"0":"post-269820","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-english-premier-league","11":"tag-fabrizio-romano","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-leeds","14":"tag-leeds-united","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-vanja-milinkovic-savic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114869647796065424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269820","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=269820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}