{"id":626964,"date":"2023-08-23T06:21:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T10:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=626964"},"modified":"2023-08-23T06:34:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T10:34:57","slug":"leeds-united-joel-piroe-southampton-leicester-swansea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/23\/leeds-united-joel-piroe-southampton-leicester-swansea\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Major Priority for Farke&#8217; &#8211; Leeds United Closing in on &#8216;Long-Standing&#8217; Star Target as Promotion Rivals Watch On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/4798821\/2023\/08\/23\/joel-piroe-leeds-swansea-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Athletic<\/a>, Leeds United are closing in on a move for Swansea City&#8217;s Joel Piroe. This comes amongst interest from the likes of Southampton and Leicester, with Phil Hay noting in the article that manager Daniel Farke has a number nine as a &#8216;major priority&#8217;.<\/p>\n<h2>Leeds United Closing in on Joel Piroe Signing Despite Southampton and Leicester City Interest<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BREAKING!!! Leeds United Closing in on Major Signing That Farke Wants!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jTQApLiX0c4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Why Leeds United Need Joel Piroe<\/h3>\n<p>One of the weakest areas of the pitch for Farke&#8217;s side is at centre-forward. After suffering from injury after injury Patrick Bamford isn&#8217;t someone that the club can rely on as a constant presence in the Championship, and Georginio Rutter plays far more like a number ten than an out-and-out striker. Signing Piroe looks more and more essential as the club desperately look for options at the top of the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>The Swansea player in particular is a target for his lethal finishing. With 41 goals in his two seasons of EFL football so far, the striker brings a much-needed cutting edge that Elland Road has been missing since the departure of Rodrigo to Qatar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/20\/wilfried-gnonto-leeds-united-everton\/\" target=\"_self\">Leeds United Player Pushes for Move<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>What a Deal Might Look Like<\/h3>\n<p>The Whites&#8217; pursuit of the forward is made much easier by some of the events surrounding Piroe&#8217;s position at Swansea City. He has reportedly denied a contract extension, and with just a year left on his contract, his Welsh club are likely to look to sell.<\/p>\n<p>Elland Road&#8217;s hierarchy value the forward in the region of \u00a38-10 million, and recognise that he could have a big impact on the season ahead. However, there is something of a risk that this could turn into a bidding war, with the other relegated clubs also keeping an eye on the Dutch forward in the event that Leeds slip up in their pursuit.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main image credit courtesy of author Joe Blackburn and licensed to Last Word on Football.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Athletic, Leeds United are closing in on a move for Swansea City&#8217;s Joel Piroe. This comes amongst interest from the likes of Southampton and Leicester, with Phil Hay noting in the article that manager Daniel Farke has a number nine as a &#8216;major priority&#8217;. Leeds United Closing in on Joel Piroe Signing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4248,"featured_media":626478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6443,33,32,15,7188,20,23],"tags":[1317,9921,9376,9389],"class_list":["post-626964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leeds-united","category-championship","category-league-football","category-leicester-city","category-rumours","category-southampton","category-swansea","tag-daniel-farke","tag-joel-piroe","tag-leeds-united-transfer-news","tag-leeds-united-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Joe Blackburn, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}