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The latest on Leeds United's free agent hunt
Yorkshire Evening Post
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17/10/2024
Latest on the free agent hunt at Elland Road with the YEP's chief football writer Graham Smyth and Leeds United reporter Joe Donnohue
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What he wants is someone who not only can cover the CDM role but also potentially centre-half,
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somebody with experience, somebody who accepts that actually you're here in a supporting
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role and you're not here to be the main man. You are looking at a very, very small pool
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of players, really, really small, and it's still very much up in the air as to whether
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they'll do something. I mean, Farke is cautiously optimistic. He almost said he hoped to get
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something done in a few days, didn't he? And then set a deadline of, you know, a hard deadline
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of November, because if you haven't done it by November, essentially what's the point?
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Because they're probably not going to be much fit till December, mid-December. But he's
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supposed to be back in January, then you start to think, well, you know, what was the point
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in spending the money? So it does need to happen sooner rather than later. I kind of
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wish it had happened already, to be honest.
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You know, this is not somebody who's going to be coming in on probably anything longer
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than a deal until the end of the season, or at least that's probably what Leeds will be
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wanting. Yeah, it has to be someone who fits the criteria, fits into the mould of the squad.
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And also, I think a big one is financially it has to make sense as well. It makes very
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little sense to have banged on about finding the right deal for Leeds United on transfers
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all summer to then, you know, make a former Premier League player or, you know, a former
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European player who's played in Europe's top five leagues, who's without a club now, you
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know, making them one of your top earners because you're desperate. You know, it has
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to be a deal which makes fiscal sense from a Leeds perspective as well. And Leeds' need
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is very obvious. If you were a representative of a player who is available, you know, and
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there are very few of them who are available, suitable for Leeds at the moment, you'd not
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be doing a very good job by your client if you weren't going into that negotiation and
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trying to get the best deal possible, and maybe trying to play on that vulnerability
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that Leeds have at the moment. So it's not as straightforward as going, he's without
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a club, right, sign. But you can definitely see why it makes sense to take that gamble,
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even if they play very limited minutes.
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