{"id":334195,"date":"2025-08-10T22:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334195\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T22:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:14:12","slug":"clubs-monitoring-the-situation-of-leeds-united-wanted-bakwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334195\/","title":{"rendered":"Clubs &#8216;Monitoring The Situation&#8217; Of Leeds United Wanted Bakwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"> Gareth Copley\/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;\">Clubs in Italy and the Premier League are monitoring the situation of <a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/leeds-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds United<\/a> target Dilane Bakwa after Strasbourg rejected Nottingham Forest\u2019s offer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leeds are now one striker down after Mateo Joseph was <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.com\/en\/news\/mateo-joseph-joins-rcd-mallorca-on-loan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent on loan to Spanish La Liga side Mallorca<\/a>, while Daniel Farke <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/08\/02\/neither-of-them-daniel-farke-gives-honest-answer-on-leeds-united-pair\/690100\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has admitted Patrick Bamford remains out of his plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Farke wants to strengthen his forward department with another striker and a winger; Leeds notably missed out on Igor Paixao from Feyenoord.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leeds submitted several bids for Paixao, but the Brazilian winger has now joined French outfit Marseille <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/07\/29\/dont-say-that-out-loud-journalist-explains-star-snubbing-leeds-united\/689714\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and a Dutch journalist revealed why he snubbed the Whites<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They have now shifted their focus to other targets and Strasbourg\u2019s Bakwa is on their list.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fellow Premier League side Nottingham Forest are also admirers of Bakwa.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nottingham_Forest_Nuno7_620_ofg.webp.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Forest will be in Europe this season and have signalled their intent with a number of signings, including Dan Ndoye from Bologna.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adding to their forward department remains Nuno\u2019s priority and Nottingham Forest went in with a bid in the region of \u20ac25m with \u20ac5m in add-ons for Leeds target Bakwa.\u00a0<\/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;\">Bordeaux<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">2018-2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Strasbourg<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">2023-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Dilane Bakwa\u2019s career history<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, Strasbourg rejected Nottingham Forest\u2019s initial offer and, according to Belgian journalist <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sachatavolieri\/status\/1953375851929604471\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sacha Tavolieri<\/a>, outfits in the Premier League and Italy are monitoring the situation regarding Bakwa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Strasbourg are willing to let the 22-year-old winger leave this summer if only a club are willing to meet their \u20ac35m price tag.\u00a0<\/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>Leeds have splashed cash in the ongoing window but it is unclear whether they deem the French outfit\u2019s valuation for Bakwa to be too high.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pressure is on the Whites to strength in attack though as the transfer window will close on 1st September.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bakwa had a fantastic last season, where he netted six goals while laying on nine assists in his 30 appearances for the Ligue 1 side.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gareth Copley\/Getty Images \u00a0 Clubs in Italy and the Premier League are monitoring the situation of Leeds United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-334195","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\/115006778441671317","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334195","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=334195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}