In what would be a statement move, the 49ers and Leeds United have now reportedly set their sights on signing an impressive Manchester City target in the coming months.
Leeds planning big summer
As Southampton, Ipswich Town and Leicester City found out the hard way this season, surviving in the Premier League is tougher than ever before. To put into context just how large a gap there is to bridge for Championship sides these days, the closest clubs to the bottom three in the current campaign have been Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur, who need little introduction.
Nonetheless, Leeds will enter England’s top flight hoping to avoid the same mistakes that led to instant relegation for Leicester, Southampton and Ipswich. That is, of course, easier said than done, but club chairman Paraag Marathe has already reiterated that he knows the extent of the challenge ahead, whilst also publicly backing Daniel Farke.
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He’s enjoyed an excellent season.
He told reporters amid Leeds’ recent title celebrations: “I’m very excited to run it back with Daniel and collaborate with him. I’m under no illusions that it is going to be easy. The past two seasons the three promoted teams came straight back down but we have something they don’t have, we have Daniel Farke first of all.I have ended the speculation. He is my man.”
As clear as day in his stance, Marathe and the rest of those behind the scenes at Elland Road must now focus on potential incomings, with several targets already threatening to steal the headlines.
Among those already mentioned includes the likes of Jamie Vardy and Beto, as the 49ers seemingly set their focus on attacking additions in the coming months. In a long summer ahead, reports have even suggested that one particular star is back on their radar ahead of their return to the Premier League.
Leeds eyeing “fantastic” Gabriel Sara
According to transfer reporters Graeme Bailey, the 49ers now have Gabriel Sara “on their radar” with Leeds plotting a summer move to sign the reported Manchester City target this summer.
Bailey told Leeds United News: “He’s [Sara] on the radar. Leeds have looked at him. You know, they knew all about him at Norwich, etc. He was fantastic. He’s not going to be cheap. We know that. But he’s an option out there.”
Whilst a move to Leeds would see Sara make his first foray into the Premier League, it wouldn’t be his first time in English football after he initially earned Galatasaray’s interest throughout an impressive spell at Norwich City.
Praised for his “creative left foot” at the time by analyst Ben Mattinson, Sara has since kicked on in Turkey and is on course to end the current campaign with two goals and as many as nine assists to his name.
