{"id":334516,"date":"2025-08-11T01:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334516\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T01:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:16:13","slug":"leeds-united-still-want-to-sign-kalvin-phillips-but-theres-a-problem-man-city-are-desperate-to-sell-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334516\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United still want to sign Kalvin Phillips but there’s a problem, Man City are desperate to sell him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since leaving Leeds United in 2022, Kalvin Phillips\u2019 career has endured a staggering decline<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The midfielder could regret his decision to sign for Manchester City<\/a> as he went from becoming a starter for Leeds and England to a player whose stock has plummeted for both club and country.<\/p>\n

Kalvin Phillips\u2019<\/a> loan moves to West Ham United and Ipswich Town were not ones to write home about as well as he is yet to redeem himself for years now.<\/p>\n

Manchester City are desperate to sell Phillips<\/a> this summer, who has a case for being one of the most disappointing signings in their history.<\/p>\n

Kalvin Phillips\u2019 wages are an issue for Leeds United despite interest<\/p>\n

Signed as an understudy to Rodri, Manchester City paid \u00a345 million for Phillips\u2019 services<\/a> but it seemed like he failed to convince Pep Guardiola about his quality from day one.<\/p>\n

The fact that City did not consider recalling the 29-year-old from his loan move to Ipswich last season despite the Spaniard suffering an ACL injury sums up his reputation as a player at the Etihad Stadium<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A report published by the Mirror<\/a> has now claimed that Leeds United<\/a> remain interested in re-signing Phillips from Manchester City.<\/p>\n

\"KalvinPhoto by Robbie Jay Barratt \u2013 AMA\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

However, the stumbling block for Daniel Farke\u2019s side are the England international\u2019s \u00a3120,000-a-week wages.<\/p>\n

Man City have a new stance on Kalvin Phillips\u2019 future<\/p>\n

Manchester City would be looking to offload Phillips and Leeds\u2019 stance is one that will likely disappoint them.<\/p>\n

Phillips is keen on rejoining Leeds<\/a> but it takes two to tango and currently, the Whites perhaps feel that their academy graduate does not fit into their wage structure.<\/p>\n

However, Manchester City are willing to loan Phillips out<\/a> this summer.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, City will have to get the player off their books and if another loan move is what it takes to do so, Pep Guardiola<\/a> and Co seem open to the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since leaving Leeds United in 2022, Kalvin Phillips\u2019 career has endured a staggering decline. The midfielder could regret…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,45305,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-334516","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-kalvin-phillips","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115007493810492091","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334516","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=334516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}