Buendia<\/a> to LS11 as Aston Villa look to make a deal happen away from the Midlands.<\/p>\nAston Villa eye Emi Buendia replacement<\/p>\n
Leeds made a deadline day bid for Buendia over the summer, but failed in their efforts to land the 29-year-old.<\/p>\n
The Whites were made to pay for missing out on the Argentine, with his early-season form catching the eye of the entire Premier League.<\/p>\n
The Villa man netted a last-gasp winner in a 2-1 victory against league leaders Arsenal at Villa Park to truly showcase his rise up the ranks under Unai Emery.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Buendia has struggled in recent weeks and has gone without a goal involvement in six matches, something which might not serve him well in January.<\/p>\n
The Villans are eyeing a move for a potential replacement signing, with Atletico Madrid ace Thiago Almada linked with a \u00a321million switch to B6.<\/p>\n
Emery wants more creativity in his side, but the signing of an attacking midfielder for that sort of price could spell bad news for Buendia, but good news for Leeds.<\/p>\n
Buendia could transform Leeds United under Daniel Farke<\/p>\n
The Whites have been largely excellent in recent weeks, with the defeat against Newcastle representing a hugely frustrating result.<\/p>\n
Brenden Aaronson showed his quality as he proved how effective an attacking midfielder can be in this 3-5-2 formation under Farke.<\/p>\n
That could see Buendia thrive for Leeds if he were to sign after already showing his class despite being a bit-part player on occasion for Villa.<\/p>\n
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Having his ability on the ball and eye for a pass could prove to be effective alongside Dominic Calvert-Lewin as a true point of difference.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to see if the Villans will part ways with the 29-year-old and what that could mean for both sides this winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Imago Fri 9 January 2026 19:10, UK Leeds United could now get their hands on Emi Buendia.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,46892,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-685355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-emi-buendia","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115867343436801675","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685355","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=685355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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