{"id":331081,"date":"2025-08-09T17:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/331081\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T17:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:29:14","slug":"leeds-united-not-keen-to-pay-e25m-for-signing-whites-can-but-wont-match-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/331081\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United not keen to pay \u20ac25m for signing &#8211; Whites can but won&#8217;t match price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago, we <a href=\"https:\/\/sportwitness.co.uk\/wolves-and-leeds-united-join-brentford-in-tussle-for-getafe-player-pl-trio-willing-to-pay-e20m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">covered claims from Spain<\/a> that Leeds United and Wolverhampton Wanderers would have to compete with Brentford for Getafe\u2019s Christantus Uche this summer.<\/p>\n<p>On July 15th, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportwitness.co.uk\/leeds-wolves-and-brighton-have-genuine-interest-in-signing-player-granted-permission-to-leave-e15m-price\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AS reported<\/a> Brighton &amp; Hove Albion have joined Leeds and Wolves in the tussle for the 22-year-old. They also stated he has a \u20ac25m release clause in his contract.<\/p>\n<p>A fresh report from <a href=\"https:\/\/as.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AS<\/a> now covers the latest on Uche\u2019s future and Leeds United is the only club to get a mention.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria international arrived at the La Liga club from AD Ceuta FC in February 2024. Last season, he was mainly used as a striker or attacking midfielder [his preferred role], scoring four goals and registering eight assists from 37 games.<\/p>\n<p>His contract expires in 2028, with an option for another year. Despite this, the newspaper reports the versatile player\u2019s future is \u2018up in the air\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s claimed Uche was destined to move to the UK, where Leeds are the main contender. AS, however, reports the Whites haven\u2019t come close to meeting the fee demanded by the Spanish club, which is \u20ac25m.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper states: \u2018Getafe knows they have a gem in Uche and won\u2019t give him away.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>This could either be a tactic or their genuine stance, and either way, Leeds United have to pay \u20ac25m to secure Uche\u2019s services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two months ago, we covered claims from Spain that Leeds United and Wolverhampton Wanderers would have to compete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-331081","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\/114999995457610386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331081","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=331081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}