{"id":348744,"date":"2025-08-16T08:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T08:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348744\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T08:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T08:58:11","slug":"player-hands-in-transfer-request-one-week-after-being-linked-with-leeds-united-as-price-tag-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348744\/","title":{"rendered":"Player hands in transfer request one week after being linked with Leeds United as price tag set"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Friday, Leeds United completed a deal to sign Dominic Calvert-Lewin on a free transfer, leaving Daniel Farke to now focus on other positions in attack.<\/strong><\/p>\n

All summer long, Leeds United<\/a> have needed a new striker. Then on Friday, it was announced that Dominic Calvert-Lewin has signed for Leeds<\/a> on a free transfer following his release at Everton at the end of last season.<\/p>\n

Now, whether or not the 49ers<\/a> pay for another new striker remains to be seen. It looks as though Farke is planning on going into the season with Calvert-Lewin as his number one striker, backed up by Joel Piroe, Lukas Nmecha, and potentially youngster Harry Gray.<\/p>\n

Whether that remains the case is hard to tell. But Farke can now at least focus on signing a new winger and a new number 10, with a new right-sided player certainly needed before the summer transfer window closes on September 1st.<\/p>\n

One such player linked is Juventus\u2019 Nico Gonzalez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"JuventusPhoto by Valerio Pennicino\/Getty ImagesNico Gonzalez update at Juventus as Leeds United court winger<\/p>\n

It has been reported in the last week that Leeds United are interested in signing Gonzalez<\/a> from Juventus. The Argentine international joined Juve from Fiorentina last summer but struggled in his maiden season, featuring 26 times in Serie A but with just three goals and two assists. Now, the Italian giants are looking to shift Gonzalez and reports in Italy now reveal that the player has actually asked to leave the club.<\/p>\n

Gazzetta<\/a> reports that Gonz\u00e1lez is unhappy with his current playing position at Juve, which has seen him go from attack into more of a wing-back position. He has now asked the club to sell him and Juventus are willing to do so, having set a \u00a325.9m price tag for the 27-year-old.<\/p>\n

However, Leeds United face competition from Atletico Madrid<\/a> in the race to sign Gonz\u00e1lez and right now it looks like Diego Simeone\u2019s side are ahead in this race.<\/p>\n\nSeason<\/strong><\/td>\nGames (league)<\/strong><\/td>\nGoals<\/strong><\/td>\nAssists<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2024\/25 (Juve)<\/td>\n26<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2023\/24 (Fiorentina)<\/td>\n29<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2022\/23 (Fiorentina)<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2021\/22 (Fiorentina)<\/td>\n33<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Leeds United are trying to sign two Serie A wide men right now<\/p>\n

Replacing Manor Solomon\u2019s goals, assists, and overall creativity from last season will be key for Farke in what\u2019s left of the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n

And there remains a chance that Solomon returns to Leeds this summer<\/a>, but it appears as though Farke is casting his net out wide with links to a number of players, including two in the Italian top flight.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Leeds United News recently, transfer expert Graeme Bailey discussed Leeds United\u2019s race to sign a new winger<\/a> with links to Gonzalez and AC Milan\u2019s Noah Okafor.<\/p>\n

Bailey explained: \u201cJuventus are desperately trying to move him [Gonzalez] on. They are trying to make room for Jadon Sancho and raise cash to sign him. He\u2019s a very good player, better than Okafor but he will be much harder to get.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leeds United are interested in signing Okafor<\/a> who has a \u00a313m price tag this summer. It is also understood that Milan have received concrete interest in the Swiss international from the likes of Bologna as well as Leeds.<\/p>\n

Who eventually arrives at Elland Road remains to be seen, but it looks like we might see a winger arriving next after Calvert-Lewin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, Leeds United completed a deal to sign Dominic Calvert-Lewin on a free transfer, leaving Daniel Farke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,93317,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-348744","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-nico-gonzalez","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115037622230662089","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348744","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=348744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}