{"id":302569,"date":"2025-07-30T00:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/302569\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T00:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:44:12","slug":"leeds-and-west-ham-look-at-not-unsellable-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/302569\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds And West Ham Look At &#8216;Not Unsellable&#8217; Striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"> Francesco Pecoraro\/Getty Images <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-quote\" style=\"display: block; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin: 30px 0px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/leeds-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds United<\/a> and <a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/west-ham-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Ham United<\/a> are \u2018closely monitoring\u2019 developments regarding Artem Dovbyk, as he is \u2018not considered unsellable\u2019 at Roma.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old centre forward joined Italian giants Roma from Spanish La Liga outfit Girona last summer and netted 17 times in all competitions for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, Dovbyk is now the subject of serious attention from Turkish side Besiktas, who want to pair him with Tammy Abraham in attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Besiktas have already made a concrete offer to sign Dovbyk, but Roma value him at a substantial \u20ac35m.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Italian daily Leggo (<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tuttomercatoweb.com\/serie-a\/il-futuro-di-dovbyk-torna-d-attualita-la-roma-fissa-il-prezzo-e-se-parte-occhio-a-hojlund-2129550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via Tutto Mercato<\/a>), there are question marks over where he fits in at Roma as part of new boss Gian Piero Gasperini\u2019s tactical plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/West_Ham_Graham_Potter6_620_ofg.webp.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leeds and West Ham are both keen, with \u2018signs of interest\u2019 from the pair, who are \u2018closely monitoring the situation\u2019 around Dovbyk.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And he \u2018is not considered unsellable\u2019 this summer, if Roma were to receive an offer that they felt matched his valuation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<tr>\nCompetition<br \/>\nFinish<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Serie A<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">5th<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Europa League<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Last 16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Coppa Italia<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Quarter-final<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>How Roma did last season<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Roma have already made an attacking addition by signing Evan Ferguson, who finished last season on loan at West Ham, from Brighton on loan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leeds have made signing a striker a priority this summer, with Mateo Joseph\u2019s future uncertain amid interest from Girona and Real Betis.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leeds_Mateo_Joseph_620_ofg.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Girona <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/07\/28\/club-ask-about-leeds-united-star-but-whites-stance-means-out-of-reach\/689581\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">currently consider Joseph to be out of reach<\/a>, while <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/07\/23\/leeds-uniteds-response-sees-club-put-deal-on-hold-to-be-revisited-later\/689169\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Betis will revisit a deal later in the window<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>West Ham, also after a striker, <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/07\/22\/west-ham-hold-talks-over-star-who-left-newcastle-united\/689131\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have held talks with ex-Newcastle United star Callum Wilson<\/a>, who is a free agent at the moment, regarding a possible deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All eyes will be on how Besiktas proceed in their pursuit of Dovbyk and whether that pushes Leeds and West Ham to take action in the coming days and weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Francesco Pecoraro\/Getty Images \u00a0 Leeds United and West Ham United are \u2018closely monitoring\u2019 developments regarding Artem Dovbyk, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-302569","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-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114939420395584311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302569","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=302569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}