{"id":413400,"date":"2025-09-10T15:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/413400\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:01:21","slug":"facundo-buonanotte-backed-over-his-controversial-decision-to-join-chelsea-over-leeds-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/413400\/","title":{"rendered":"Facundo\u00a0Buonanotte backed over his\u00a0controversial\u00a0decision to join Chelsea over Leeds United"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leeds United missed out on a playmaker late in the window, with Facundo Buonanotte joining Chelsea from Brighton & Hove Albion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Facundo Buonanotte<\/a> was a serious target for Leeds United<\/a>, but he chose to move from Brighton to Chelsea on a season-long loan deal after an 11th hour U-turn.<\/p>\n

Buonanotte is a long-term Leeds target<\/a>, dating back over two years now.\u00a0 It was then exclusively revealed\u00a0by\u00a0Leeds United News\u00a0<\/strong>what Brighton\u2019s stance on Buonanotte was<\/a>\u00a0and that Leeds have \u2018never left the table\u2019 in terms of their interest.<\/p>\n

He has set-piece delivery, as well as the ability to be utilised as either a No.10 or winger. The Whites wanted that profile to finish off their attack and it was even said at one stage that Leeds then led the race for Buonanotte<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"BrightonPhoto by Mike Hewitt\/Getty ImagesGraeme Bailey backs Facundo Buonanotte decision to join Chelsea over Leeds<\/p>\n

It looked for all the world like they would\u00a0sign Buonanotte before the deadline<\/a>, with a\u00a0loan deal between Brighton and Leeds<\/a>\u00a0likely to go through after it was claimed\u00a0Brighton preferred a loan to England<\/a>\u00a0as well this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course, that didn\u2019t materialise, but Leeds United News<\/strong>\u00a0have learnt that Buonanotte always favoured a move to Borussia Dortmund. However,\u00a0Dortmund saw bid rejected for\u00a0Buonanotte<\/a>\u00a0due to Brighton\u2019s preference, which is why the door was open for Leeds.<\/p>\n

A twist then emerged, as Graham Smyth confirmed\u00a0Buonanotte\u2019s Thursday flight to Leeds was cancelled<\/a> following reports they had agreed the move. Initially, it was not known why, but it quickly became clear that there was an issue with the deal.<\/p>\n

Then, disaster struck, as\u00a0Chelsea then hijacked the move for Buonanotte<\/a>. That was the twist, which led to Chelsea paying a \u00a32 million loan fee for Buonanotte<\/a> to bring him in from Brighton.<\/p>\n

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One Leeds United News<\/strong> source added that people inside the club cannot believe that Brighton have allowed the move to happen, given that it already doesn\u2019t appear that likely that he will feature regularly in Enzo Maresca\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n

That has been compounded recently after it was revealed that Buonanotte is already out of Chelsea\u2019s Champions League squad<\/a>, with many wondering if the Argentine has now made a mistake in joining them over Leeds.<\/p>\n

Leeds United News<\/strong>\u00a0asked our transfer correspondent Graeme Bailey for his verdict on that situation, but also if he has heard anything from inside the club about Leeds\u2019 view of Buonanotte over his decision.<\/p>\n

On Buonanotte to Chelsea, we asked if it was viewed as ridiculous for him to go to Chelsea after the Champions League omission reveal. Bailey responded: \u201cIs it ridiculous that he chose Chelsea? If he plays 10-15 games, he gets a permanent move to Chelsea.\u201d<\/p>\n

We then asked, what would happen next to Buonanotte and if he would then be sent to RC Strasbourg on loan instead. He added: \u201cNo, this is an audition for him to become a Chelsea player. Chelsea love him as a player. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see any day of the week that Buonanotte would join Leeds over Chelsea. He will play more than you think at Chelsea. We\u2019ll see. It\u2019s the lad\u2019s choice and obviously he didn\u2019t think Leeds was the right move.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dan Moylan explains what Robbie Evans thinks of Facundo Buonanotte<\/p>\n

Dan Moylan of The Square Ball spoke to Managing Director Robbie Evans after the Newcastle United game, claiming that Buonanotte came up in conversation between the pair: \u201cChris just said, \u2018do you want, to come and sit in the director\u2019s box?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I thought, \u2018It\u2019s the final couple of days of the transfer window. What an opportunity to go ruffle some feathers.\u2019 And I did. I spoke to I spoke to Robbie Evans. I did. Howard Wilkinson was there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael Normanton responded: \u201cDid you manage to get his phone off him or anything? Have a look through his WhatsApps?\u201d <\/p>\n

Moylan answered: \u201cWell, I did ask him for a message on the way out. I\u2019ll tell you what I will say. What I will say on on the Buonanotte thing is they kind of just almost just nonplussed. It\u2019s like what you doing? It\u2019s terrible, isn\u2019t it? <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat he\u2019s like to go to Chelsea under those circumstances. What do you think you\u2019re going to play?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United missed out on a playmaker late in the window, with Facundo Buonanotte joining Chelsea from Brighton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,560,117981,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-413400","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-exclusives","11":"tag-facundo-buonanotte","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-leeds","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115180607389821353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413400","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=413400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}