{"id":464360,"date":"2025-09-30T23:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T23:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/464360\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T23:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T23:56:13","slug":"why-lufc-wont-sign-oxlade-chamberlain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/464360\/","title":{"rendered":"Why LUFC won’t sign Oxlade-Chamberlain"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the summer window, there were various links to players for Leeds United<\/a> to sign, and they varied in their credibility as Daniel Farke missed out on a key attacker addition.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The final days of the summer window were of course disappointing for Leeds, but to get their new signings off the mark with goals away at Wolves was an ideal boost.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t detract from the fact that Daniel Farke believes he\u2019s short of options in the final third, relative to what he\u2019d have liked in the summer.<\/p>\n

Most Read on LeedsAllOver<\/p>\n

Could Leeds United sign Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain after Besiktas release?<\/p>\n

Looking at the free agent market, it was around this time last year that Leeds acted fast to bring in Josuha Guilavogui as a stop-gap solution to the midfield injury crisis.<\/p>\n

In the end, the Frenchman wasn\u2019t required much at all in a playing capacity, and was more seen as a father figure to the squad on the way to promotion.<\/p>\n

Leeds missing out on an attacking midfield profile that could also play wide led to suggest of the free agent market, in which Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain still features.<\/p>\n

\"\"Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is looking for a new club after leaving Besiktas, with Leeds United linked previously. (REUTERS\/Dilara Senkaya)<\/p>\n

Football Insider<\/a> and other outlets have claimed United were interested in the 32-year-old England international. However, there\u2019s been no movement since he left Turkish giants Besiktas, who severed his contract, costing \u00a31.5million compensation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Major issue(s) with Leeds United suggested to sign Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain<\/p>\n

Leeds signed one injury-prone England international during the summer window on a free transfer, would they sign another?<\/p>\n

Oxlade-Chamberlain was a regular for Arsenal and Liverpool during his time at both clubs. His drop-off since into his 30s has been considerable.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s missed 58 games through injury<\/a> since the start of the 20\/21 campaign. He was then cut loose from his contract in Turkey with a year remaining. If a Turkish side doesn\u2019t think he\u2019s worth keeping around purely on wages alone, it suggests he\u2019s nearly not of Premier League standard.<\/p>\nGames playedTotal minutesGoalsAssistsGames missed
through injury<\/tr>\n\n50<\/td>\n2556<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

If a player is still a free agent going into October, then there\u2019s a good reason for it.<\/p>\n

Let me know your thoughts in the comments below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the summer window, there were various links to players for Leeds United to sign, and they varied…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[71298,748,25764,393,4884,1860,2922,142361,142362,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-464360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-alex-oxlade-chamberlain","9":"tag-britain","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\/115295956904643267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464360","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=464360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}