{"id":305468,"date":"2025-07-31T02:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305468\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T02:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:28:13","slug":"leeds-united-ask-about-star-they-have-tracked-since-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305468\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United Ask About Star They Have Tracked Since 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"> Megan Briggs\/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> \u2018have come forward\u2019 with an interest in signing Benfica midfielder Florentino Luis, who they have been tracking since 2020, but they are not alone in their admiration of the player.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Benfica have managed to see off competition to land Colombia international midfielder Richard Rios from Brazilian side Palmerias.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There was significant interest in Rios from a number of clubs, including Italian giants Roma <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/07\/13\/rejected-a-proposal-wolves-fail-with-bid-nottingham-forest-highest-offer-but-also-rejected\/688379\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and Premier League sides<\/a>, and Benfica\u2019s capture has been seen as a coup.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Having landed Rios, Benfica could potentially decide to open the door to Luis leaving.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There have already been enquiries for the midfielder and, according to Italian journalist <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Glongari\/status\/1950588561025302552\">Gianluigi Longari<\/a>, Leeds \u2018have come forward\u2019 to express their interest in Luis.<\/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_Daniel_Farke5_620_ofg.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Whites though are not alone as <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/everton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everton<\/a> and Burnley have also asked about Luis.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leeds have managed to add Sean Longstaff and Anton Stach in midfield, but Daniel Farke may want an extra body to handle the demands of the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<tr>\nClub<br \/>\nYears<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Benfica<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">2016-2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Monaco (loan)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">2020-2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Getafe (loan)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">2021-2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Florentino Luis\u2019 career history<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Luis came through the youth set-up at Benfica and has had loan spells away from the Portuguese giants at Monaco and Getafe.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has been on Leeds\u2019 radar for several years, <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2020\/07\/28\/leeds-united-ahead-of-ac-milan-in-race-for-20-year-old-after-significant-work-behind-scenes\/466335\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with the Whites keen on him in 2020<\/a>, when they got promoted to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Leeds_Daniel_Farke15_620_ofg.webp.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nottingham Forest <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2023\/08\/15\/nottingham-forest-with-strong-interest-in-benfica-midfielder\/615698\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">then looked at Luis in the summer of 2023<\/a>, while Everton <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2024\/01\/29\/benfica-take-transfer-decision-on-star-amid-everton-interest\/634788\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">showed interest in the 2024 January transfer window<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in his career, Luis was <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2020\/06\/16\/hes-like-this-player-former-coach-of-leeds-target-florentino-luis-on-elite-talent\/459900\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">compared to Brazil midfielder Casemiro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His former coach in the Benfica youth set-up said: \u201c[He has] an exceptional talent and physical qualities totally in line with his footballing qualities.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[He] has a very similar profile to Casemiro.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Luis made a substantial 45 appearances across all competitions for Benfica last season, including in the FIFA Club World Cup this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Megan Briggs\/Getty Images \u00a0 Leeds United \u2018have come forward\u2019 with an interest in signing Benfica midfielder Florentino Luis,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-305468","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\/114945491671367455","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305468","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=305468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}