{"id":363857,"date":"2025-08-22T05:35:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363857\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T05:35:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:35:36","slug":"the-reality-is-leicester-city-boss-on-crystal-palace-and-leeds-united-race-for-bilal-el-khannouss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363857\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The reality is’\u2026 Leicester City boss on Crystal Palace and Leeds United race for Bilal El Khannouss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bilal El Khannouss is at the centre of a transfer battle between Leeds United, Crystal Palace, and potentially some more clubs in the near future.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It looks as though Bilal El Khannouss<\/a> is set to steal a move away from Leicester City in what is left of the summer transfer window. The Moroccan international is wanted by Leeds United<\/a> and Crystal Palace, though it looks as though the latter are leading the race right now.<\/p>\n

Recent reports have revealed Crystal Palace are stepping up talks to sign El Khannouss<\/a> with Eagles star man Ebere Eze close to joining Arsenal in a deal worth up to \u00a370m.<\/p>\n

Leeds United are still in search of attacking signings, predominantly an attacking midfielder is wanted. But on Thursday, Leeds announced the signing of Noah Okafor from AC Milan<\/a>, who can operate across the front line, and so whether or not Leeds push the boat out to sign El Khannouss remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

\"BilalPhoto by Michael Regan\/Getty ImagesLeicester City boss speaks out on Bilal El Khannouss transfer interest<\/p>\n

There is also the possibility that El Khannouss remains at Leicester City. Recently, El Khannouss\u2019 release clause at Leicester City expired<\/a> and now the Foxes are understood to be commanding up to \u00a330 million for the 21-year-old.<\/p>\n

Amid this growing transfer speculation, Foxes boss Marti Cifuentes has spoken to the press and given an indication as to what the situation is with El Khannouss. A tight-lipped Cifuentes told Leicestershire Live<\/a>: \u201cThere\u2019s going to be a lot of speculation and a lot of rumours about our players because they are good players, so I\u2019m not surprised.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the reality, at this stage of the window especially. It\u2019s 10 days left and I assume there\u2019s going to be a lot of speculation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reality is that Bilal is with us and he\u2019s a very good player. It\u2019s normal, this speculation, and I will not comment much on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ThePhoto by James Gill \u2013 Danehouse\/Getty Images\"ThePhoto by Visionhaus <\/p>\n

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Leeds United\u2019s no.1 search is boiling down to one player, it\u2019s not Bilal El Khannouss<\/p>\n

As time goes by and more and more players either look set to stay at their current clubs or move elsewhere, it looks as though Leeds\u2019 search for a new no.10 is boiling down to one player in Facundo Buonanotte.<\/p>\n

With Palace seemingly leading the race for El Khannouss, it takes one player off of Leeds United\u2019s four-man shortlist for the no.10 position<\/a>. The other names on said list are Emi Buendia, Gustavo Hamer, and Buonanotte.<\/p>\n

But despite having been linked with a move away from Villa Park throughout the year, it looks as though Buendia has played himself back into contention at Aston Villa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Hamer will only leave Sheffield United for PSV<\/a> this summer, with the Dutchman seemingly uninterested in moving to Leeds. So it could be that Buonanotte arrives at Elland Road<\/a> before the September 1st transfer deadline.<\/p>\n

It would be another decent signing for Farke, though whether he wants another attacker and whether he can afford another one, as expensive as Buonanotte, remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bilal El Khannouss is at the centre of a transfer battle between Leeds United, Crystal Palace, and potentially…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[107635,748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-363857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-bilal-el-khannouss","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115070797611808202","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363857","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=363857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}