{"id":508475,"date":"2025-10-18T03:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T03:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/508475\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T03:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T03:47:16","slug":"former-leeds-united-defender-wanted-by-everton-as-half-the-premier-league-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/508475\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Leeds United\u00a0defender\u00a0wanted by Everton as half the Premier League circle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leeds United News have the latest exclusive information regarding a former player, who has had plenty of interest in the Premier League and across Europe lately.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leeds United<\/a> have not retained the services of every player to come through at Elland Road, but there is a consistent stream of talented footballers who are produced by the famous Thorp Arch academy set-up.<\/p>\n

James Milner, Kalvin Phillips, and Aaron Lennon were all England internationals at one stage, and the list is much longer than that as far as Leeds are concerned.<\/p>\n

Archie and Harry Gray may reach those heights one day, and Leeds\u2019 development of players should be praised, including Charlie Cresswell<\/a>. He may well be developing elsewhere, but Leeds had a part to play.<\/p>\n

\"CharliePhoto by George Wood\/Getty ImagesCharlie Cresswell has fresh Premier League interest, including Everton<\/p>\n

Cresswell has thanked Leeds for his development<\/a> previously, but the centre-back only made 14 appearances for the senior team. He captained various youth teams throughout an 11-year career.<\/p>\n

That started at the age of 10 or 11 back in 2013. Since then, Cresswell admitted to aspirations of playing more for Leeds<\/a>. That didn\u2019t happen and he was sold to Toulouse in the summer of 2024.<\/p>\n

West Ham United like Toulouse\u2019s Cresswell<\/a>, with Leeds having a 15% sell-on clause in the deal to sell the 23-year-old to the Ligue 1 outfit. In fact, Cresswell was a late-window target for West Ham<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nothing materialised, but Borussia Dortmund are also tracking Cresswell \u2014 per David Ornstein.<\/a> The interest seems to be mounting, given the latest developments.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s previously been reported Liverpool have also looked at Cresswell<\/a>, with the Reds keeping tabs on his rapid progress since leaving Leeds for the French top flight. However, their cross-city rivals are also admirers.<\/p>\n

Transfer correspondent Graeme Bailey spoke to Leeds United News <\/strong>exclusively, stating the latest on Cresswell\u2019s situation. He said: \u201cHalf the Premier League is looking at him now. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s having a very good time of it in France. He also had a brilliant Euros, which I think was a big thing for him. You saw that he marked [Nick] Woltemade out of the final. <\/p>\n

\u201cLeeds have the sell-on and don\u2019t be surprised to see him come back to England in January. Everton are aware of him, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ToulousePhoto by Sylvain Dionisio ATPImages\/Getty ImagesWhat Charlie Cresswell\u2019s sale could mean for Leeds in terms of PSR<\/p>\n

Leeds fans believe selling Cresswell for \u00a33.8million was a mistake<\/a> but he could benefit Leeds in the short-term if Toulouse choose to cash in during the winter window.<\/p>\n

We explained why Cresswell\u2019s sale could land Leeds PSR headroom<\/a> previously, with it previously stated that Toulouse want as much as \u00a318million for Cresswell<\/a> in the summer.<\/p>\n

Our finance expert Adam Williams explained: \u201cA fee like that gives Leeds \u00a32.7 million towards their bottom line, which gives them \u00a32.7 million more PSR capacity.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a sense, that could, for example, be used to sign a \u00a313.5 million player on a five-year amortised deal at Elland Road.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United News have the latest exclusive information regarding a former player, who has had plenty of interest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,82287,393,560,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-508475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-charlie-cresswell","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-exclusives","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-leeds","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508475","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=508475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}