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Leeds United are being linked with a lot of Premier League players that aren’t getting games at their current clubs, and most of them don’t really make any sense from a squad-building view, or from a fitness perspective.
It was always going to happen upon Leeds’ promotion back to the Premier League that we’d see links to several players that were already in the division and expected to leave their current clubs.
The most obvious and unsurprising link to emerge was that of Kalvin Phillips returning to the club, with well-established reasons as to why it wouldn’t be of any good to Leeds to bring him back.
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Leeds United now linked with move to sign Liverpool’s Joe Gomez for £25m
Another player in a similar bracket to Phillips being linked with Leeds is Liverpool’s versatile defender Joe Gomez – per Empire of the Kop.
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A homegrown player edging closer to his 30s that isn’t getting regular playing time at his current club, Gomez is free to leave Anfield this summer if the right offer comes in.
As many as eight clubs are cited in the source as keeping tabs on Gomez, one of those being Leeds, while the value Liverpool have put on the 28-year-old is said to be £25million.
The player himself is also said to be open to leaving the club while the fee could be less than the one reported.
Kalvin Phillips logic applied to Joe Gomez deal – Leeds United must stay away
Taking away the emotion of seeing Phillips back in a Leeds shirt, there is very little that looks advertising about spending £10million on a player that could not displace Ipswich Town’s Sam Morsy last season due to form and fitness.
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Looking at Gomez, he’s had a much tougher pathway to regular starts under Arne Slot with Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate in front of him in the pecking order, but the 15-cap England defender hasn’t been able to give himself much chance due to likewise injury problems.
Gomez missed 28 games through a hamstring injury this season, and it’s one of five separate periods of his Liverpool career where he’s been sidelined for more than 90 days.
Add to that the fact that he’d come with significant wage demands dropping down from the Premier League champions, and a lack of clarity in what position he plays when he’s fit, and you have a transfer link that doesn’t look at all like money well spent for Leeds in strengthening their defence with guaranteed quality for 38 matches.