{"id":970690,"date":"2026-05-19T09:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/970690\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:19:13","slug":"club-wont-stand-in-way-as-leeds-united-make-move-to-finalise-signing-quickly-e15m-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/970690\/","title":{"rendered":"Club &#8216;won&#8217;t stand in way&#8217; as Leeds United make move to finalise signing quickly &#8211; \u20ac15m fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sportwitness.co.uk\/leeds-united\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds United<\/a> are in the running to sign Lyon\u2019s Tanner Tessmann in the summer.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Premier League side\u2019s interest in the American first emerged in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds United and Brentford are his admirers, and both are reportedly looking to sign him before the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Claims made in the UK, especially about Leeds United, have reached the French press. Le Progr\u00e8s, relayed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeunesfooteux.com\/Mercato-OL-Leeds-fonce-sur-Tanner-Tessmann-Lyon-fixe-le-prix_a80194.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeunes Footeux<\/a>, now cover the latest on the Whites and Lyon\u2019s stance on him.<\/p>\n<p>The Ligue 1 side took the defensive midfielder from Italian side Venezia in August 2024, and he played 76 matches. This includes 2,546 minutes from 41 matches this season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Encouragement for Leeds United<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Farke\u2019s side have made a move, likely to secure his services quickly, before the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being a regular, Tanner Tessmann has never been a key figure at Lyon and that didn\u2019t change after his performances this season. He hasn\u2019t managed to have a huge impact on the outcome of games.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old\u2019s form isn\u2019t good enough for him to be a key part of Lyon\u2019s project, but he attracts interest from England. Therefore, the French club \u2018won\u2019t stand in his way\u2019 if there\u2019s a good offer in the upcoming window.<\/p>\n<p>Le Progr\u00e8s state there\u2019s a threshold of \u20ac15m excluding bonuses. If Leeds United were to offer this fee and find an agreement with the player, he will be sold.<\/p>\n<p>For this price, selling Tessmann seems to be a market opportunity for his club, after he had a \u2018decent season\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The American\u2019s contract expires in 2029, and his value, as per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.com\/tanner-tessmann\/profil\/spieler\/670096\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Transfermarkt<\/a>, is \u20ac10m. The highest value was \u20ac12m in December 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leeds United looking at other midfielders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sporting midfielder Hidemasa Morita has long been on the Whites\u2019 agenda and his contract expires in June.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Sport Witness <a href=\"https:\/\/sportwitness.co.uk\/leeds-united-is-likely-destination-for-midfielder-refused-to-pay-e10m-can-now-secure-free-agent\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">relayed news<\/a> Leeds United are likely his next destination.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the Japan international,<a href=\"https:\/\/sportwitness.co.uk\/leeds-united-battling-with-bundesliga-sides-for-signing-farke-wants-defensive-midfielder\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Dynamo Dresden\u2019s Kofi Amoako<\/a> is another defensive midfield target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United are in the running to sign Lyon\u2019s Tanner Tessmann in the summer.\u00a0 The Premier League side\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,2922,10039,270841,16,15],"class_list":["post-970690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-leeds","tag-leeds-united","tag-lyon","tag-tanner-tessmann","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116600502284944537","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970690","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=970690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}