{"id":388070,"date":"2025-09-01T00:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T00:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/388070\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T00:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T00:03:13","slug":"leeds-united-fans-wont-believe-what-dilane-bakwa-has-just-done-for-strasbourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/388070\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United\u00a0fans won\u2019t\u00a0believe what Dilane Bakwa has just done for Strasbourg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leeds United target Dilane Bakwa is one of a few forward options being considered before the transfer deadline<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

After failing to land Facundo Buonanotte, Leeds United<\/a> are in search of alternative attacking options, with Daniel Farke needing more of a creative spark in his ranks to knit the attack together.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why Bakwa has been on Leeds\u2019 radar for a while<\/a>, with the 23-year-old RC Strasbourg winger a player with more assists than goals in his career so far.<\/p>\n\nTeam<\/td>\nAppearances<\/td>\nGoals<\/td>\nAssists<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFC Girondins de Bordeaux<\/td>\n52<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nRC Strasbourg Alsace<\/td>\n71<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Dilane Bakwa\u2019s career stats<\/p>\n

Leeds\u2019 desire to sign him faces stiff competition, though. They are not the only Premier League club keen on the winger. Fulham have \u2018advanced talks\u2019 for Bakwa<\/a>\u00a0in recent days and Nottingham\u00a0Forest remain very keen on Bakwa<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"DilanePhoto by Sathire Kelpa\/Eurasia Sport Images\/Getty ImagesDilane Bakwa shines for RC Strasbourg despite ongoing transfer talk<\/p>\n

Forest had a \u00a326 million bid for Bakwa rejected<\/a> and it\u2019s also believed that\u00a0Forest went as high as a \u00a330 million Bakwa bid<\/a>.\u00a0Nothing has materialised since, with Strasbourg so far standing firm.<\/p>\n

The latest today is that Fulham and Forest remain in the Bakwa race<\/a> ahead of the transfer deadline. That information comes after Bakwa revealed his last game for Strasbourg<\/a>\u00a0had been played recently.<\/p>\n

However, it appears he has U-turned on that after the developments on Sunday afternoon. Bakwa came off the bench at half-time away to Monaco with his side 2-0 down shortly after.<\/p>\n

It changed the game, with Bakwa scoring in the 73rd minute and then winning a penalty just mere minutes later for Strasbourg to be level at 2-2. <\/p>\n

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Unfortunately for Bakwa, it didn\u2019t amount to much, as Monaco scored through Takumi Minamino in the 96th minute to snatch the points.<\/p>\n

Despite stating he would never play again, Bakwa has already notched a goal and two assists in their three Ligue 1 games, which comes from just 135 minutes of action so far.<\/p>\n

\"JuventusPhoto by Valerio Pennicino\/Getty ImagesDaniel Farke prefers Atleti-bound Nico Gonzalez to Bakwa<\/p>\n

Daniel Farke prefers Nico Gonzalez to Bakwa<\/a>. That is despite Farke\u2019s comments regarding a creative winger profile<\/a>, as opposed to more of a goalscorer like Gonzalez.<\/p>\n\nName<\/strong><\/td>\nClubs<\/strong><\/td>\nAge<\/strong><\/td>\nGames<\/strong><\/td>\nGoals<\/strong><\/td>\nAssists<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDilane Bakwa<\/td>\nStrasbourg
Bordeaux<\/td>\n23<\/td>\n123<\/td>\n17<\/td>\n29<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nNico Gonzalez<\/td>\nJuventus
Fiorentina
Stuttgart
Argentinos Jrs<\/td>\n27<\/td>\n290<\/td>\n77<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

It\u2019s immaterial now, with Atletico Madrid closing in on Gonzalez<\/a>. That limits who they can sign further ahead of the deadline. Either way, Leeds have to sign another forward of some description.<\/p>\n

Leeds have kept two clean sheets already, but survival needs more than that. Attacking differentials are imperative for sides fighting the drop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United target Dilane Bakwa is one of a few forward options being considered before the transfer deadline.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,111403,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-388070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-dilane-bakwa","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\/115126115064433917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388070","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=388070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}