{"id":97632,"date":"2025-05-13T09:03:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T09:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/97632\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T09:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T09:03:20","slug":"real-madrid-could-scupper-40m-leeds-united-transfer-this-summer-after-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/97632\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid could scupper \u00a340m Leeds United transfer\u00a0this summer after development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leeds United could yet smash their transfer record this summer as Daniel Farke and the 49ers look towards an expensive summer transfer window.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leeds United<\/a> could be fearing the worst ahead of their Premier League return after watching the last six promoted teams all come crashing down.<\/p>\n

Last season, Ipswich Town, Leicester City and Southampton were all promoted but all have since been relegated with a whimper, despite all three spending their share of money.<\/p>\n

Though it doesn\u2019t look set to be a patch on what Leeds United will spend this summer. It\u2019s been reported that Leeds United are ready to spend \u00a3100million<\/a> on new players this summer in a bid to finally keep themselves in the Premier League.<\/p>\n

Manager Daniel Farke<\/a> could yet spend much of that \u00a3100million on one player with some reports of potential big money signings at Elland Road<\/a>, which could yet break the club\u2019s transfer record.<\/p>\n

In January 2023 Leeds United signed Georginio Rutter in a \u00a335.5million deal<\/a> to set the club transfer record.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Joe Prior\/Visionhaus via Getty ImagesLeeds United\u2019s Caoimhin Kelleher hopes could be scuppered by Real Madrid<\/p>\n

Caoimhin Kelleher<\/a> is on the Whites\u2019 transfer radar as Farke looks for a new no.1 to replace Illan Meslier. And it was recently revealed to Leeds United News that Leeds United have made contact with Liverpool over Kelleher<\/a> who the Reds could command up to \u00a340million for this summer.<\/p>\n

But an emerging report from The Sun<\/a> has revealed that Brighton are now looking at the Irishman, because Real Madrid have added Seagulls\u2019 no.1 Bart Verbruggen to their summer shortlist as they themselves look for a long-term heir to Thibaut Courtois.<\/p>\n

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The Sun say that Brighton have \u2018been tracking\u2019 Kelleher and also fellow Leeds United transfer target James Trafford<\/a> at Burnley \u2018for some time\u2019.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto By Ben McShane\/Sportsfile via Getty ImagesRepublic of Ireland boss sends message to Caoimhin Kelleher amid Leeds United links<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old Kelleher looks nailed on to leave this summer. He\u2019s seemingly been pushing for a move ahead of the summer and there\u2019s more and more clubs joining the race, and Brighton will surely be a very attractive proposal.<\/p>\n

Not only because they\u2019re now an established Premier League club but because Verbruggen leaving would open up that no.1 spot for someone like Kelleher to come in and play regularly.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly what Kelleher needs and wants from his next move. Speaking recently, Republic of Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrimsson spoke about Kelleher\u2019s future<\/a>, saying: \u201cI just want Caoimhin to go to a club where he will play. He has been playing at the highest level.<\/p>\n

\u201cChampions League, Premier League, done really well. I just want him to be happy and play regularly. I don\u2019t mind where he goes so long as he is playing on a regular basis, he is too good not to be playing.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Both Brighton and Leeds could offer Kelleher regular game time. In that case then it could come down to who can offer the shot-stopper the best deal.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United could yet smash their transfer record this summer as Daniel Farke and the 49ers look towards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,9422,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-97632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-caoimhin-kelleher","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\/114499721857502242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97632","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=97632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}