{"id":546582,"date":"2025-11-03T16:42:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/546582\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T16:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:42:18","slug":"patrick-bamford-frustrated-as-leeds-exit-followed-by-frank-lampard-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/546582\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Bamford \u2018frustrated\u2019 as Leeds exit followed by Frank Lampard snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Patrick-Bamford-and-Frank-Lampard-1140x641.jpg\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Patrick Bamford looking focused on the left for Leeds with Frank Lampard serious on the right\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 20%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: IMAGO<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762188133_860_94399bd7ab42abd455aa00aa2aebfd9d\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" alt=\"Pete O'Rourke, Transfer Correspondent\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p> Mon 3 November 2025 15:50, UK <\/p>\n<p><strong>Patrick Bamford will be furious that he hasn\u2019t been offered the opportunity to play for Coventry on a permanent basis after training under Frank Lampard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/patrick-bamford-training-with-championship-club-ahead-of-potential-transfer-after-leeds-exit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bamford has been improving his fitness levels at Coventry<\/a> after his contract was terminated by mutual consent by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/leeds-united-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds<\/a> in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>His availability has seen links to moves out of England, with sources telling <strong>Football Insider<\/strong> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/sources-patrick-bamford-could-be-about-to-join-mls-club-after-leeds-exit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bamford could head to the MLS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/sources-patrick-bamford-could-complete-coventry-city-move-imminently-one-thing-must-happen-first\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coventry would only consider signing Bamford if an injury crisis ensued<\/a> up top, pushing him towards urgently finding a new club soon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Patrick-Bamford-Feb-2024-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"Patrick Bamford in action for Leeds United\" class=\"wp-image-595590\" \/>Credit: Getty ImagesCoventry don\u2019t want to sign Bamford as he works on opening new opportunities in the \u2018next few weeks\u2019<\/p>\n<p>As I revealed on the latest edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7Atmejn4fSX2w7S8NBVKdv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Football Insider\u2019s Inside Track podcast<\/a>, the Englishman is struggling in his pursuit of a new permanent club since leaving Elland Road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/sources-patrick-bamford-to-agree-move-imminently-after-celtic-decision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bamford had been in talks to join Celtic<\/a>, before the club moved in to sign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/kelechi-iheanacho\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kelechi Iheanacho<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the\u00a0<strong>Inside Track podcast<\/strong> over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/frank-lampard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lampard<\/a>\u2018s disinterest in acquiring the 32-year-old, I explained: \u201cYou\u2019ll be hoping that other options open up for himself in the next few weeks, heading into the new year, that he can fix himself up with a new club. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/patrick-bamford-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick Bamford looking focused for Leeds\" class=\"wp-image-770143\" \/>Credit: IMAGO <\/p>\n<p>MORE FOOTBALL INSIDER STORIES<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure he\u2019s frustrated that he\u2019s not been fixed up with a new club of yet. Right now, it\u2019s not in Coventry\u2019s thinking to sign Bamford. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re just doing it as a favour to him, to maintain fitness, but things can change in football quite quickly, so you just never know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leeds and Coventry to continue recent connection as Daniel Farke eyes up Haji Wright<\/p>\n<p>With the Englishman currently improving his fitness with the Sky Blues, the Whites are intrigued by one of his training colleagues.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Haji-Wright-Coventry-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Haji Wright looking focused for Coventry\" class=\"wp-image-668070\" \/>Credit: Imago<\/p>\n<p>Sources told <strong>Football Insider<\/strong> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/sources-leeds-united-plot-move-to-sign-coventrys-haji-wright\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds are monitoring Coventry\u2019s Haji Wright<\/a> as he continues to go from strength-to-strength under Lampard.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old has netted eight goals in 12 appearances in the Championship this season and is well on course to beat his 2024-25 record of 16 goals in the league.<\/p>\n<p>The Peacocks have struggled for goals in the Premier League and are eager to bolster their frontline in the January transfer window.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: IMAGO Mon 3 November 2025 15:50, UK Patrick Bamford will be furious that he hasn\u2019t been offered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,7129,4884,1860,2922,2924,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-546582","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-frank-lampard","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-leeds-united","14":"tag-patrick-bamford","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115486769668673232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546582","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=546582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}