{"id":351179,"date":"2025-08-17T07:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T07:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351179\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T07:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T07:59:11","slug":"leeds-united-blow-as-leicester-city-boss-confirms-james-justin-has-picked-up-an-injury-amid-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351179\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United blow as Leicester City boss confirms James Justin has picked up an injury amid talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ahead of the weekend, Leeds United were reportedly in talks to sign James Justin from Leicester City but Leicester City boss Marti Cifuentes has now detailed a potential blow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

LeedsUnited.News<\/strong> broke the news that Leeds wanted to sign James Justin<\/a> from Leicester earlier this month and now, that Leeds<\/a> have intensified that interest in Justin<\/a> into advanced talks for the defender.<\/p>\n

Despite that, Justin was named captain and started Leicester\u2019s away game against Preston<\/a> on Saturday as Marti Cifuentes and Justin risked scuppering a deal that would see the one-time England man join Leeds.<\/p>\n

That has now come to fruition, with Leicester suffering a 2-1 defeat at Deepdale \u2013 a place Leeds fans will know is a tough place to go. Justin limped off on 77 minutes and was replaced by Hamza Choudhury.<\/p>\n

Miluton Osmajic, the man who got Illan Meslier sent off at Deepdale during Daniel Farke\u2019s<\/a> first season as Leeds manager, netted a late winner for Preston after Jeremy Monga cancelled out Alfie Devine\u2019s opener.<\/p>\n

\"JamesPhoto by Plumb Images\/Leicester City FC via Getty ImagesMarti Cifuentes details extent of James Justin injury amid talks<\/p>\n

Leeds are hopeful of striking a \u00a36m deal for Justin<\/a>, a move which would provide cover on both sides of the defence. It is also likely that a move would see Leeds sanction the exit of Isaac Schmidt to Germany.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Leicestershire Live<\/a> after the game, Foxes manager Marti Cifuentes confirmed that Justin had picked up a knock and while he hinted it was just a \u201ckick\u201d, he is unsure of the diagnosis at this stage. <\/p>\n

\u201cJJ unfortunately got a kick on the leg. The medical team is assessing. I don\u2019t know exactly what the outcome is. Hopefully it\u2019s not an injury, or a big injury at least,\u201d Cifuentes said, about Justin\u2019s injury.<\/p>\n

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Leicestershire Live continued by saying that Leeds have been in \u2018advanced talks\u2019 to sign Justin prior to the game but any extensive injury could force Adam Underwood to \u2018pull out\u2019 of a deal for the defender.<\/p>\n

\"MartiPhoto by Andrew Kearns \u2013 CameraSport via Getty ImagesAnother one potentially bites the dust for Leeds and Underwood<\/p>\n

It has been a summer of Leeds missing out on key targets. Jaka Bijol, Lucas Perri, Gabriel Gudmundsson, Anton Stach and Sean Longstaff were clearly key targets. Leeds eyed Sebastiaan Bornauw from January<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Dominic Calvert-Lewin\u2019s arrival is clearly a reaction to Leeds failing to get Rodrigo Muniz or any of their other key targets. Igor Paixao has chosen Marseille<\/a> while Muniz scored on Saturday for Fulham.<\/p>\n

There are likely to be countless of other top targets that Underwood and Leeds have missed out on and Justin\u2019s injury could mean another is added to the list. Hopefully, it is just a minor impact injury for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the weekend, Leeds United were reportedly in talks to sign James Justin from Leicester City but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,114818,1860,124118,100,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-351179","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-james-justin","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-marti-cifuentes","14":"tag-transfer-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115043052461868639","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351179","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=351179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}