{"id":77386,"date":"2025-05-05T20:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/77386\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T20:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:51:09","slug":"leeds-star-appears-to-confirm-team-mate-is-quitting-club-while-on-boozy-bus-parade-football-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/77386\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds star appears to confirm team-mate is quitting club while on boozy bus parade | Football | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was an awkward moment during Leeds United\u2019s Championship<\/a>-winning parade as Ethan Ampadu appeared to confirm that Junior Firpo is leaving the club. On Saturday, an injury-time winner from Manor Solomon gave Daniel Farke\u2019s side a 2-1 win at Plymouth and sealed\u00a0the title<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Promotion had already been confirmed on Easter Monday following Stoke\u2019s 6-0 demolition. Tens of thousands of fans took to the streets to celebrate with the players on the mile-long route, with the bus going through the city centre. However, Ampadu then turned heads after getting on the microphone to serenade Junior Firpo.<\/p>\n

The Dominican Republic international joined Leeds from Barcelona<\/a> in 2021. His team-mate started by singing the song that Leeds fans have sung regularly at Elland Road about their left-back.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe came from Barca, he won the cup in Spain,\u201d he sang. \u201cHe plays for Leeds<\/a> now, he’ll do the same again. He’s f***ing magic and don’t you f***ing know, his name is Junior, Junior Firpo.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Amapadu then started shouting \u2018Real Betis\u2019 repeatedly. Firpo started his professional career at the La Liga club and has been linked with a return this summer.<\/p>\n

The parade was streamed live on the Leeds United YouTube channel, and at one point, it had more than 50,000 viewers. During the footage, Firpo was heard saying: \u201cPlease, we can\u2019t record that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old has made 122 appearances since joining from Barca in a \u00a312.75million deal. His four-year deal runs out this summer, though, meaning he will be eligible to leave the club on a free transfer.<\/p>\n

Firpo came through the youth and B-team ranks at Betis before breaking into the first team fold in 2018. However, just one season later, he left for the Nou Camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was an awkward moment during Leeds United\u2019s Championship-winning parade as Ethan Ampadu appeared to confirm that Junior…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,12032,393,12411,4884,12414,37976,1860,37975,2922,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-77386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-efl-championship","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-ethan-ampadu","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-junior-firpo","14":"tag-junior-firpo-real-betis","15":"tag-leeds","16":"tag-leeds-bus-parade","17":"tag-leeds-united","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114457207469069140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77386","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=77386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}