Leeds Transfer Rumours

23 Sep 2026 17:41:18
Dan James looking to leave in January as for Bahoya may not be staying at Leeds as Farkey is not impressed with is out put on the training ground. In Leeds news.

23 Sep 2026 18:08:02
Come on White man
Because some nobody prints a rubbish story due to having nothing constructive to write about now for 3 weeks,,you can honestly believe the muck that you read

There no way Danny would put that into public domain even if it were true.
The lad will get his run,he now has a nice break to just get to know team properly and every day that scenario improves.

23 Sep 2026 13:31:33
Just a post note to my comments yesterday that I respect not everyone will like the fact I have questioned whether our owners have done their absolute best to give our magnificent loyal and patient fan base the very best squad/team on the pitch to cheer.

I think they are doing a good job but I personally think they could do a better job and still get a nice return for themselves and their investors as I do not believe they couldn't have found an extra £50 or £60 million to purchase the two better options to either come off the bench or be a first team replacement for players like Stach who I think are not playing to their normal high level.

I think this season is presenting a rare window of opportunity for one or two clubs outside the so-called big 6 mega wealthy clubs to enter the top 6 as Spurs and Man U are in transition and looking quite average and even Liverpool and Chelsea have considerable issues in defence and midfield that I think Brighton and Brentford are certainly looking a good bet to finish top 6 and Leeds could also be considered too if they can strengthen in January.

I'm happy with the general direction of travel our owners are taking the club but whether you call it being a "conspiracy theorist" term invented by the CIA in 1963 to control the masses and insult and label people who didn't believe the official JFK shooting explanation that got too close to the truth, then so be it, I just want Leeds United to be the very best it can be like all of us and hope our owners can see the value of going that extra yard this season.

22 Sep 2026 12:18:40
Following on from my post yesterday (name the players you would like Leeds to have signed over the years - simple rules: must be realistic, you can only sign people we could have afforded at the time and, must be in the time period you've been following Leeds) .

You are allowed to choose players we were linked with, on the verge of signing but didn't or simply someone you wish we'd signed.

Here's my X1:

1- Peter Shilton (if Cloughie had remained, he would have signed him)

2 - John Gidman (we should have signed him around 77/78, excellent full back at the Villa at the time)

3 - Ben Chilwell (a lot of us were calling for cover at left back - he's an excellent player. Wages would be an issue though)

Centre backs - Bobby Moore (wanted to sign for Leeds according to his wife Tina) and Kevin Beattie (not aware of him being linked with us but he would have made a brilliant replacement for Norman Hunter)

Midfield -
Graeme Souness (we were in discussions in the mid 70s - direct replacement for King Billy)

James Garner (we should have beaten Everton for his signature!)

Gerrie Muhren (a bit left field this one - Arnold Muhren's older brother. Ipswich went for Arnold in the late 70s. Pity we didn't go for this brilliant playmaker a couple of years earlier)

Upfront -
Andy Gray (Villa took the chance on the Scot and he proved to be an out and out goalscorer - if only we had gone for him when big Joe Jordan went)

Trevor Francis (another we would have got had Cloughie remained - Francis always said that he wanted to play for Leeds)

Jared Bowen (could/should have signed him during Bielsa's reign, and should have had another go this summer)


Your turn guys - Baz mentioned Pat Jennings yesterday, an excellent choice.

JR also suggested 'your worst X1', those we should never have signed!

I'm going to add Roque Junior to his list!

Fire away with your choices guys - you've got a couple of weeks to kill before we play again: (.

22 Sep 2026 12:35:38
Great selection choices there Cleggy

My list so far.

Pat Jennings 1967
Frank Lampard 2000
Alan Shearer 1992

Be interested Cleggy if you have any suggestions for a pacy supreme defender LB in the DOL era 1997 to 2002.

Although Ian Harte was supreme on free kicks.against good teams he was a weak defensive link imo

Ashley Cole comes to mind but he was firmly a Gooner in that period.

22 Sep 2026 12:58:38
Glenn Hoddle 1979.

When our creative talisman Tony Currie very regettably left.I would have loved Leeds to have signed Glenn Hoddle from Spuds.

Leeds unwisely failed to sign a creative midfielder in any of the next 3 seasons and it played a huge part in their eventual relegation in 82.

22 Sep 2026 20:39:25
Ooof a full XL or as close as I can get (I'm 32 for the era context) .

GK - Dominik Livakovic. He's come up a few times over the years before we finally signed Trafford. Was always very cheap in the rumours weirdly for a class keeper.

LB - Josko Gvardiol. We were linked with him the summer before he moved to City. Not sure how close we were genuinely for him or was it one of Victor's long shots. Nevertheless it was reported.

CB - Joel Ward. Was a swiss army knife for Portsmouth right around the time we came up from the Championship and signed for Palace. They went up that same season. We got Jason Pearce instead. Safe to say who won that pick of Pompey defenders. They paid 400k for him and got a decade. Sure he came up as linked with us once or twice.

CB - Help!

RB - Resigning Denis Irwin - apparently we tried to, Ferguson turned the same phone call into asking the price for Cantona. if that had turned into Irwin for Cantona would have been more palatable than what actually transpired. Cheating slightly as before I was born but i've read enough about this story.

Midfield. Lampard and Rodrigo De Paul. Honourable mention for CAM for Charles De Ketelaere.

Wing - Cody Gakpo, Again it was the year before Liverpool signed him I think and he was rumoured to be the marquee signing of the window.

Wing - Kharavetskhalia when he was at Rubin Kazan as we were looking to replace Raphinha.

Forwards - Jonas Wind from the most recent window. He was a free agent target man who moved from Wolfsburg to Braga. Don't know if we were ever strictly linked but I'll maintain we should have done that one.

Erling Haaland - toured the club so I guess we had a shot when he was still at Molde in 2018.

11 I wish we hadn't signed. Imposed rule - its a combo of in some cases because they were terrible full stop or terrible for the money spent, context to the season.

Paul Rachubka - His mistakes vs Blackpool saw Alex Cairns get a debut.

Lb - Federico Bessone

CB - yeah Roque Junior gets the nod here.

CB - Max Wober.

RB - ermm.

LM - Cameron Stewart

CDM - Michael Brown - useless If you want a CAM instead, Adryan.

CM - Seth Johnson - if we dont sign him its because we signed Lampard.

RM - Jimmy Kebe (gosh that was a good window)

RS - Noel Hunt - Just didn't deliver and was a marquee free agent who took a hefty wage for nothing.

LS - Billy Paynter - see above. Between him and Bessone if just one of them had panned out we'd have made the play-offs first year back instead of 7th.

Honourable mentions for: Steve Morison in exchange for Becchio, Weston McKennie, Luke Varney, Robbie Fowler, Lonergan (second spell - first was decent) , Higgs, Casilla, Buononotte.

22 Sep 2026 23:58:04
Pretty good selections young Ealing

Very good picks on gk Livakovic ( much prefer we signed him this summer than the high budget Trafford and spent wedge in forward positions )

and Gvardiol ( if only)

As for the waste of moneys. no way Robbie Fowler ( say instead of the humungous waste of money JKA lol ) .Fowler was class his goals got Leeds into Europe.

23 Sep 2026 07:36:04
Good shouts there, Ealing!
Add Paul Okon as the replacement for
Olivier Dacourt!
Peter Barnes never delivered on his hype and price.
Ian Rush, Mark Hateley, and Lee Sharpe.
I'd add a question mark over Michael Brown; at least he got stuck in and battled, when that tenacity was severely lacking in the team.

23 Sep 2026 10:35:05
Brown I just remember as being a half step slow every game.

Fowler I thought was one of the hall marks of the overspend. We got half a good season for £12m that delivered uefa cup. It's not his fault but we didn't need another forward with smith viduka and Keane at the time. I can't remember if bridges was fit too or if the injuries had started. So less reflection on his abilities but I just wish we hadn't signed him.

23 Sep 2026 10:49:15
Leeds spent a sizeable whack on Lee Sharpe £4.5 million but Ian Rush was a free transfer and Mark Hateley merely a short term loan

The caveats to all three perfomances were that they all played in just the 1996/97 seez where George Graham perhaps rightly focused on Leeds being just uber defensive thst seez

conceding very few goals to defo avoid a R battle. but hardly scoring any either

most of our matches were nil nil or 1 nil in 96/97.

23 Sep 2026 10:57:09
Ealing.Bridges picked up what became a career ending injury in 2000.way before Fowler was signed.

Contrary to some peeps mistaken opinions we actually needed Fowler because we continually had lenghty injuries to not just Bridges who never played again.but also to Smith, Keane and Kewell

Fowler scored 1 goal every 2 games. a goodish signing imo

JKA and others on the list but not Fowler.

22 Sep 2026 02:13:02
Going back to Cleggy's question on players one wished Leeds United had signed.

In 2001 DOL and Leeds United were heavily linked to signing Frank Lampard.we missed out on some player there.

18 Sep 2026 20:17:19
Got a feeling we won't see Bahoya in a Leeds shirt this weekend or any weekend for that matter: He's probably heading back to Germany in January.
Like I say it's just a feeling I got.

18 Sep 2026 22:54:46
They said a couple of days ago that they will "not rush into a decision as to whether they trigger their option to buy him", which sounds to me like code for "we're not sure whether we like him or not." I was disappointed he didn't come on late in the Newcastle game, as it would've been a low risk strategy when we were 4:0 up, but then I'm not the one paid to make those decisons.

We're out of the League cup, and the FA cup 3rd round isn't til Jan 9th so we may have a long wait to see him.

19 Sep 2026 08:22:54
Aren't there two obligations connected to the loan? The option becomes an obligation if we stay in the Premier League and Bshoya makes 10 appearances?
If Corkey is right then this is another bench warming Buananotte situation and doesn't do much for the credibility of those who are making key transfer decisions.


Hopefully Farke is giving the player time to settle in before he gives him a run out.

19 Sep 2026 09:48:48
Bang on dun. Bit like keep fans happy we bought an attacker.

19 Sep 2026 12:44:42
Farke has already stated separately that he's not gonna chuck the lad straight in, due to the ever growing number of wolves who tear players to pieces if they don't perform from the word "go".

I recall Gio getting completely panned when he first joined.
If its one where it doesn't work out tho, which is always possible in loans with an option, then so be it.

19 Sep 2026 14:17:18
Surely a cameo against Newcastle when we went up by four? If he ain't getting on in that game.

19 Sep 2026 14:37:12
Maybe Corkster, and I did wanna see him too, but do understand why DJ got the nod first.

19 Sep 2026 19:05:20
But by bringing him on are you saying to Dan James that he is no longer the preferred back up option. Dan James knows the way the manager wants him to play. Yes we were 4-0 up but it's still the premier league and bringing players on that will need to be carried by the team isn't going to do anyone any favours.

19 Sep 2026 19:34:26
I read that farke leveraged connections to bring him in and he's on the bench regularly unlike Buononotte who got dropped a lot even from the bench.

I dont think Farke would leverage connections like that unless he was on board. I also believe the signings from Bundesliga probably have more input from Farke than others.

This could all change if we dont see him before christmas.

19 Sep 2026 23:56:48
Need to be carried by the team? If that's the case and he's that pony send him back now. Ridiculous statement LAD.
James is back up right wing back. The new winger is Okafor back up on the left.

20 Sep 2026 11:21:45
What Corkey said.

20 Sep 2026 12:50:53
Who is Wilson and aaronson cover for then. Can't keep everyone happy. He clearly preferred Wilson on this occasion and I think Farke is probably a little better placed to make on a decision on what he thinks is right at the right time. Yes he does get it wrong sometimes but don't think anyone has seen anything to suggest otherwise at the moment regarding Bahoya and I'm sure the club will bring him in when he's ready otherwise we will have people on here going nuts if it turns into a JKA situation and we are obliged to buy someone who is "pony”.

Maybe get him up to speed, make sure he's the right fit for the team and squad and then let him play. At that point we can make a genuine assessment on whether he's worth playing him enough to make the loan signing permanent. Don't want to waste 5 games brining him on for 10 mins here's and not knowing if he's ready.

20 Sep 2026 13:09:48
JMB in past 2 seasons has played 51 times for Frankfurt in Bundesliga one of the strongest leagues in Europe.

I doubt he will be happy not playing.

20 Sep 2026 15:59:31
Aaaand that one's put to bed! Two and a half full EPL minutes!

20 Sep 2026 16:01:01
Got his boots dirty for a few minutes agin Palace - first steps.

20 Sep 2026 16:03:24
He'll probably be brought on today in injury time? Oh wait.

20 Sep 2026 16:41:21
I admit I wish I didn't post that so close to kick off 😂.

16 Sep 2026 14:39:30
Feels like a time to think about it. Do we think about extending
Calvert Lewin right now. He's coming up on his last 18 months.

If we were to what would an extension look like? Longer terms on his existing 100k a week or would we have to fork out even more?

It sounds cynical but enjoy him but strengthen our position with him if he's willing to talk a 2 yr extension. If we're in a good place come Jan we can fend off the desperate teams (Spurs) or force them into even more than palace forked out for strand Larsen.

That's one scenario which i don't love. Unless Leeds have targets up front because Nmecha is out of contract soon too.

16 Sep 2026 15:36:48
He would probably warrant a wage increase tbh. Has kept fit and scoring as well as can be expected. He is also vital to the leadership group and was one of the reasons we switched to 5 at the back last season midway through the Citeh game so essentially instrumental in keeping us up.

Still better to give him an extension with wage increase than buy someone else financially.

16 Sep 2026 18:51:31
Oh i agree Alf, he definitely gets a new deal. My only concern is the fitness. He's approaching 30 and it feels like we are playing roulette with how fit he has been since he joined. Long may it continue though, the Leeds physio team are doing a pretty decent job.

15 Sep 2026 19:07:00
Eddie Howe anyone? I think he'd love the Leeds job.

15 Sep 2026 19:11:09
He would, but the job is not available at this point. Hopefully Farke can continue developing us into a force capable of challenging for honours, and stay for the foreseeable future.

15 Sep 2026 22:39:35
Irrelevant, firstly there is no vacancy, and secondly by the time there is, Eddie Howe will have found a new job. The first PL team to sack their manager will have him top of their wishlist to fill the post.

16 Sep 2026 00:19:59
Good point JR. Skybet have Eddie Howe's next managerial job to be with Man United ( at 5/2 favourite )

16 Sep 2026 01:18:27
I see he's 5/1 to be next England manager, which I fancied him for before Tuchel was appointed. If I were a betting man I might fancy a flutter on Bournemouth at 16/1 where he's managed before, or Villa at 12/1 where I think Emery is on borrowed time.

16 Sep 2026 06:39:42
I was jesting. At least I think I was?

16 Sep 2026 09:49:19
You might have to don your tin hat Corkey?

16 Sep 2026 15:37:50
Would definitely take him but on a year out at the moment. I personally would let Farke see out this year then bring Howe in next year.

16 Sep 2026 17:56:22
I think he's a lot lower down when there's a hypothetical vacancy for me.

I'd pursue Kieran Mckenna, Pochettino, and Glasner before him.

Poch making noises suggesting he doesn't want another full US cycle, and Glasner is quality but no one lasts long under that owner.

16 Sep 2026 20:37:38
With respect Alf, it beats me how you can make a statement like that. You say you'd "let Farke see out this year then bring Howe in next year". So if we have an outstanding season and finish say 5th you'd still propose sacking him and bring in a new head coach, that'd be madness.

If at the end of the season (or maybe even before that) , we're not doing well, then replacing him might be something the board might consider, but don't waste time dreaming about Eddie Howe, cos he'll be settled in a new job long before that.

Let's see how things go, and decide then.

As for Mckenna, or Pochettino, or Glasner, or any other hypothetical candidate - same answer, wait and see!

17 Sep 2026 00:00:56
A bit surprised that only JR countered Alf's assertions to have Farke replaced end of seez.

15 Sep 2026 10:59:56
Crazy that Richarlison was left out of Spurs premier league list and then they didn't or couldn't sell him.

Clubs clamouring for forwards like Everton who tried to resign him. We could have use him on loan or for free. It's going real well for us right now but still feel we're one forward injury away from an issue.

15 Sep 2026 11:46:59
Good on his day, but not the right character for us I don't feel.

15 Sep 2026 22:42:46
Eventually Spuds will see the light and release him from his contract, then as soon as he becomes a free agent, clubs will be queueing up to sign him.

16 Sep 2026 07:37:34
Everton will be at the front of the queue!

16 Sep 2026 17:57:44
Agree, that he doesn't fit the lack of ego/teamwork dressing room.

He's a diva that needs to be loved, and would probably throw a strop if he isn't installed as no.1 forward within a month. DCL is our No.1 forward full stop.

15 Sep 2026 08:27:30
Some stat that when playing under the lights at ER.18 wins, four draws and no losses in the last 22 home games.

Also loved the most repeated phrase describing last nights win that we "bullied” them, a deliberate strategy from Farkey, recruitment team to get bigger stronger players that can turn games like last nights win.

15 Sep 2026 20:36:49
Don't agree Class with the bigger stronger statement.
To me anyway it's more about the intensity of our play than the size of our players. Tanaka, Amps, JJ and Bogle set the tone last night and Lewin was a beast. All of these lads under 6 feet.

15 Sep 2026 22:55:51
I just had to check that Corkey, and according to Transfermarkt, Bogle and Tanaka are under 6ft, Amps and JJ are dead on 6ft (neither over nor under) and DCL is 6ft 2 in. I agree with you tho that it''s not height that matters but physicality, and even small guys can have that.