{"id":74123,"date":"2025-05-04T15:06:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T15:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/74123\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T15:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T15:06:23","slug":"leeds-sending-scouts-to-france-to-check-out-argentina-international-as-top-transfer-target-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/74123\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds sending scouts to France to check out Argentina international as top transfer target this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

LEEDS are making Marseille centre-half Leonardo Balerdi one of their top targets for the Premier League.<\/p>\n

Whites<\/a> scouts went to France to check out the Argentina<\/a> ace, 26, and an offer is being prepared.<\/p>\n

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Balerdi is a summer target for Leeds United as they return to the Premier LeagueCredit: Getty\"Marseille<\/a>Balerdi is a key player for Marseille<\/p>\n

Balerdi was at Borussia Dortmund<\/a> then went to Marseille <\/a>in 2021 and has been a regular starter since.<\/p>\n

The French giants will be looking for around \u00a320 million for Balerdi but he could fancy a move to the Premier League<\/a> at this stage of his career.<\/p>\n

This season Balerdi has an average pass completion of 94% and is the captain of third-placed Marseille.<\/p>\n

He moved from Boca Juniors to Borussia Dortmund in 2019, before switching to Marseille in 2021.<\/p>\n

Balerdi holds both Argentine and Italian nationality but chose to play for Argentina, where he was born.<\/p>\n

He currently has six caps for the World champions and has attracted transfer interest from Roma.<\/p>\n

More football transfer goss<\/p>\n

THOMAS FRANK<\/a> wants to splash out on Leicester’s \u00a325 million-rated keeper Mads Hermansen.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Brentford<\/a> boss is keen on a move for his fellow Dane, 24, who has been a standout during the Foxes’ disastrous season.<\/p>\n

CASINO SPECIAL – BEST CASINO BONUSES FROM \u00a310 DEPOSITS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dutchman Mark Flekken<\/a>, 31, is the Bees’ current No1 but Hermansen could boost Frank’s side.<\/p>\n

Hermansen has been linked with Champions League clubs but the Bees’ dressing room has a strong Danish feel with internationals Christian Norgaard<\/a>, Mathias Jensen<\/a> and Mikkel Damsgaard <\/a>already there.<\/p>\n

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Hermansen could move to Brentford from relegated LeicesterCredit: Alamy<\/p>\n

JOHN COLEMAN<\/a> has made a surprise dugout return with Irish side Waterford.<\/p>\n

Coleman, 62, has been out of work since leaving League Two Gillingham<\/a> in March and jumped at the chance of taking charge.<\/p>\n

The veteran boss is no stranger to working in Ireland – he managed Sligo Rovers<\/a> in 2014 – but is best known for his two spells at Accrington, where he took charge of more than 1,000 games.<\/p>\n

DANIEL BACHMANN\u2019S Watford future is in doubt.<\/p>\n

The Austrian keeper, 30, last played for the Hornets on January 4 after he was ruled out with an ankle ligament injury and returned to the bench at the end of March.<\/p>\n

Egil Selvik has filled in between the sticks. <\/p>\n

And Watford would sell Bachmann, who joined them in the summer of 2017, even though he has three years left on his deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEEDS are making Marseille centre-half Leonardo Balerdi one of their top targets for the Premier League. Whites scouts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,560,36,2922,19562,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-74123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-exclusives","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-leeds-united","13":"tag-olympique-de-marseille","14":"tag-section-sportfootball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114450188439786533","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74123","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=74123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}