{"id":505113,"date":"2025-10-16T21:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/505113\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T21:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:14:16","slug":"daniel-farke-explains-why-leeds-united-didnt-keep-burnleys-jaidon-anthony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/505113\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Farke explains why Leeds United didn’t keep Burnley’s Jaidon Anthony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Saturday afternoon sees Leeds United face one of the other two promoted sides for the first time in the Premier League this season, and it also sees Jaidon Anthony face some of his old teammates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Karl Darlow, Joe Rodon, Pascal Struijk, and Ethan Ampadu were all teammates of Jaidon Anthony<\/a> during his loan spell at Elland Road<\/a> from Bournemouth, during 2023-24. But Anthony struggled to start games.<\/p>\n

Just two goals for Leeds<\/a> followed that season from Anthony, who endured a difficult time off the pitch that season due to the loss of his Mother. Anthony would return to Bournemouth and join Burnley.<\/p>\n

A move to Burnley last season on loan saw the winger reunite with Scott Parker, with whom he worked under at Bournemouth previously. Promotion saw Anthony sign permanently for Burnley, for \u00a38m<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"JaidonPhoto by Chloe Knott \u2013 Danehouse\/Getty ImagesDaniel Farke answers question on Burnley winger Jaidon Anthony<\/p>\n

If Anthony surprised Leeds fans last season in playing a key role in getting Burnley promoted, his form in the Premier League<\/a> will have stunned plenty so far. Anthony had a hand in 15 goals for Burnley last term.<\/p>\n

But this season, he\u2019s already scored four Premier League goals and laid on an assist in seven for Burnley. Farke<\/a> was asked about Anthony, with Leeds deciding not to sign Anthony after his loan at Elland Road.<\/p>\n

\"DanielCredit: Clive Rose\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cJaidon has a place in my heart. Fantastic player to work with, fantastic teammate, always great to have him around. A joy every day. Potential never in doubt. Unlucky with minor injuries,\u201d Farke summarised.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had Crysencio Summerville in his position, Player of the Season. Sadly for Jaidon, he was a bit unlucky that was his position. I\u2019ve always labelled Jaidon as a Premier League player, a top player.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEven better human being. My fingers will always be crossed for him, a fantastic start to the season \u2013 top attitude.\u00a0 My fingers won\u2019t be crossed tomorrow, but he\u2019s a fantastic player and person,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Jaidon Anthony\u2019s Leeds and Burnley numbers compared<\/p>\n

Farke\u2019s comments do make sense, with Summerville enjoying a Player of the Season campaign that made it impossible to drop him during 2023-24. But, Summerville left in the summer of 2024 to join West Ham.<\/p>\n

There might have been scope to bring Anthony back to Elland Road, but Leeds decided to take a risk on Manor Solomon and it paid off. The now-Villarreal winger had a hand in 23 goals for Leeds last season.<\/p>\n\nClub<\/strong><\/td>\nGames<\/strong><\/td>\nMinutes<\/strong><\/td>\nGoals<\/strong><\/td>\nAssists<\/strong><\/td>\nMinutes per G+A<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLeeds<\/td>\n38<\/td>\n879<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n219.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nBurnley<\/td>\n50<\/td>\n4266<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n213.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Solomon netted the winner against Plymouth to secure the Championship title on the final day ahead of Anthony\u2019s Burnley, a real full-circle moment. Leeds now have to work out how to stop in-form Anthony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday afternoon sees Leeds United face one of the other two promoted sides for the first time in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,1385,393,4884,165575,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-505113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-daniel-farke","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-jaidon-anthony","13":"tag-leeds","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115385917338164921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505113","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=505113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}