{"id":649709,"date":"2025-12-23T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/649709\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T05:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:00:24","slug":"harry-wilson-reveals-how-close-he-was-to-joining-leeds-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/649709\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Wilson reveals how close he was to joining Leeds United"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leeds United<\/a> summer recruitment looks to finally be bearing fruit this month, but it could have been even better if we landed key targets.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A six-point gap to the bottom three is about as good as we all hoped after promotion in the summer. We\u2019re proving to be more than competitive<\/a> in the Premier League and it stands us in good stead for the rest of the campaign.<\/p>\n

Rewind a couple of months and fans were throwing criticism online at the lack of impact made by transfers, coinciding with missed targets having storming seasons.<\/p>\n

Most Read on LeedsAllOver<\/p>\n

Harry Wilson in incredible form as Leeds United watch on with jealousy<\/p>\n

Twice Leeds have had a Welsh winger ripped from their clutches<\/a> on the 11th hour of deadline day. In 2019 it was Dan James, and in 2025 it was Harry Wilson.<\/p>\n

The Fulham winger looked to be potentially joining us<\/a> on the final day of the summer window. However, Fulham\u2019s own business was the stumbling block, and when their attempt to sign Tyrique George from Chelsea fell through, they pulled the plug on Wilson joining United<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since then, Wilson\u2019s proven exactly why he would have been an ideal signing for Leeds<\/a>. He\u2019s scored five this season and added to his catalogue of outrageous goals in the process.<\/p>\n

\"\"Fulham\u2019s Harry Wilson was very close to joining Leeds United. (Action Images via Reuters\/Craig Brough)<\/p>\n

Tonight, Leeds fans ought to keep an eye on developments at Craven Cottage, as they face Nottingham Forest, who are currently below Leeds after our win over Crystal Palace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Harry Wilson reveals how close he was to joining Leeds United<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all worked out well for Wilson, who is absolutely playing himself further into new contract discussions at Fulham<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ahead of their game this evening at home to Forest, he discussed how deadline day transpired as he missed out on a move to Elland Road.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the first time it had happened to me,\u201d Wilson told Sky Sports<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m used to watching it on Sky Sports, so to be part of it was different.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy phone was going off every two minutes. It was going to happen, then it wasn\u2019t going to happen. Then it was back on, then it was off.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a certain few days or 24 hours. I didn\u2019t know where I was going to be. It was a bit of a relief when the window closed and I could concentrate on the football.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harry Wilson could have been huge for Leeds United this season<\/p>\n

It\u2019s ironic how Wilson\u2019s found the best form of his career in the Premier League while we\u2019re now probably not looking for a right-winger anymore.<\/p>\n

The change to a 3-5-2 comes as part of the fact that we looked so toothless in a 4-3-3 initially. However, Wilson joining us might have changed Farke\u2019s fortunes in his favoured formation.<\/p>\n

As we look to January, you can surely write off any revived effort for Wilson from Fulham, even if he\u2019s not penned a new contract.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s looking far too good this season and Fulham are directly competing with us to stave off relegation.<\/p>\n

Read more: Man United hit with stunning Bruno Fernandes blow ahead of Leeds United.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United summer recruitment looks to finally be bearing fruit this month, but it could have been even…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,25764,393,1625,4884,49398,1860,2922,142361,142362,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-649709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-elland-road","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-fulham","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-harry-wilson","14":"tag-leeds","15":"tag-leeds-united","16":"tag-lufc","17":"tag-the-whites","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115767124572941817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649709","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=649709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}