Leeds United have reportedly received an offer from a Premier League club and if they accept the offer, the player in question would be the club’s sixth most-expensive sale in Leeds’ history.
The 49ers have already made to clear that they will have to sell a few players this summer in order to bring in some cash at Elland Road, to repay some of the £190m owed in player transfers to other clubs.
Players like Crysencio Summerville, Archie Gray, Ilia Gruev, Illan Meslier, Junior Firpo, Pascal Struijk and others have attracted interest over the past 12 months at Leeds, as well as Italy winger Willy Gnonto.
The pocket-sized winger failed to live up to his initial hype earned while starring in the Premier League during 2023-24, failing to start many games during the first half of the season under boss Daniel Farke.
Premier League club table bid for Leeds United star Willy Gnonto
The 20-year-old is expected to leave Elland Road in the coming weeks and months. Leeds prevented his exit last summer when he pushed for an exit and refused to play three games for Leeds in August.
But the potential is there and Nottingham Forest have reportedly made a bid worth £16.9m to sign the former Inter Milan and Zurich winger. Leeds are yet to make a decision on whether to accept that offer.
However, a decision as per the report is expected in the coming days. If Leeds do accept, which might be in their best interests, would make Gnonto the sixth most-expensive sale in the Yorkshire club’s history.
Who is above Gnonto in terms of Leeds’ biggest sales?
That fee of £16.9m for Gnonto is just above the £15m received from Burnley for Chris Wood, and the £12m that Atletico Madrid paid Leeds for Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink way back during the 1999-00 season.
In fourth and fifth, the two exits to Bournemouth of Tyler Adams and Luis Sinisterra. Colombian winger Sinisterra set Bournemouth back a fee of £20m, while USA skipper Adams reportedly cost them £23m.
Rio Ferdinand’s move to a certain club was Leeds’ most-expensive sale for 20 years, raking in £30m. Above them, are Kalvin Phillips to Man City at £45m and then Raphinha to Barcelona for a huge £55m.