{"id":464192,"date":"2025-09-30T22:25:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/464192\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T22:25:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:25:28","slug":"official-dan-james-injury-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/464192\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Dan James injury update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Leeds United winger Dan James has been subject to a new ankle injury setback, with various rumours having to be quashed on the severity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Farke was adamant in his stance of wanting more wide options during the summer window.<\/p>\n<p>So Dan James being dealt a new injury setback is the last thing he required, after Willy Gnonto was also recently sitting out too.<\/p>\n<p>    Most Read on LeedsAllOver<\/p>\n<p>Dan James ruled out with ankle injury as Leeds United make official update<\/p>\n<p>Rumours swirled online in the last 24 hours suggesting a long-term James setback was due to be come to light. Some were suggesting an ACL injury. Of course, such a setback would rule the Welshman out for the foreseeable.<\/p>\n<p>However, Wales boss Craig Bellamy provided a positive update on the matter. He shared that it\u2019s actually an ankle injury that James is dealing with, sustained in training at Thorp Arch.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Leeds have shared an official update on the winger, via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/grahamsmyth\/status\/1972992975027540164?s=46&amp;t=iC1BC8pXpEWOhYWqKfdnhA\">Graham Smyth<\/a>. It\u2019s shared that has an ankle issue that is \u201cundergoing assessment\u201d. The issue is not expected to be long-term:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Leeds say: &#8216;Daniel James has an ankle issue which is currently undergoing assessment. Any absence is not expected to be long-term.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>DF to update on Thursday.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lufc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#lufc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4NNNbWPfn3\">https:\/\/t.co\/4NNNbWPfn3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Graham Smyth (@GrahamSmyth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrahamSmyth\/status\/1972992975027540164?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sigh of relief as Leeds United issue much better Dan James injury update<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/NEW-View-From-FA5-1024x322.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50642\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Losing James for a long time would have been really, really worrying for us.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s not looking like a starter for us right now, but having someone with his pace as an option would be huge on the break.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not outlandish to suggest if James was actually a viable option from the bench against Bournemouth, that we\u2019d have seen out a win.<\/p>\n<p>Him being a rapid outlet is something we could have done with, and hopefully we see him back soon.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United winger Dan James has been subject to a new ankle injury setback, with various rumours having&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,72047,25764,393,4884,1860,2922,142361,142362,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-464192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-dan-james","10":"tag-elland-road","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-leeds","14":"tag-leeds-united","15":"tag-lufc","16":"tag-the-whites","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115295599853416155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464192","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=464192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}