{"id":634902,"date":"2024-01-31T05:55:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T10:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=634902"},"modified":"2024-01-31T05:55:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T10:55:59","slug":"daiki-hashioka-luton-town-over-leeds-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/01\/31\/daiki-hashioka-luton-town-over-leeds-united\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Here We Go!\u2019: Leeds United Miss out on \u2018Astonishing\u2019 Transfer Target as He Opts for Premier League Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds United have continued their crusade towards Premier League promotion through January by winning five of their six fixtures and drawing the remaining one. Daniel Farke&#8217;s side sit fourth in England&#8217;s second-highest division of football. Club officials were hoping to add the announcement of a major transfer in the form of Daiki Hashioka, but were beaten to their target by a Premier League outfit.<\/p>\n<h2>Daiki Hashioka Picks Luton Town over Leeds United<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Watch: <\/strong>The Square Ball, Leeds and More &#8211; Half an Hour with Michael Normanton<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Square Ball, Leeds and More - Half an Hour with Michael Normanton\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lYuPAWo1zyM?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>Japanese Defender Joining English Side<\/h3>\n<p>Italian journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1751741770629624096\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a> tweeted late Sunday night that Daiki Hashioka has agreed to sign with Premier League squad Luton Town. He gave the transfer his signature &#8220;Here we go!&#8221; tagline. The Japanese right-back joins the struggling Hatters from Belgian Pro League outfit Sint-Truiden.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/01\/30\/sunderland-complete-signing-of-defender\/\" target=\"_self\">Sunderland Complete Signing of Defender From Leeds United<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hashioka&#8217;s transfer is a &#8220;done deal despite Leeds and Trabzonspor interest.&#8221; The Lilywhites were looking to boost their backline in hopes of rising to the automatic promotion spots of the Championship. Instead, Luton have signed the 24-year-old defender that aims to help them remain in the English topflight.<\/p>\n<h3>Leeds Fail to Secure Hashioka&#8217;s Talents<\/h3>\n<p>Hashioka began his footballing career in the Urawa Red Diamonds&#8217; youth academy. He graduated in 2017 and made his first appearance with the senior side. Although his time in Japan did not bear any trophies, he earned a call-up to the Japanese National Team in 2019. This drew the attention of clubs in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/01\/19\/leeds-united-target-manuel-benson\/\" target=\"_self\">&#8216;Priority Target&#8217;: Leeds Focusing on Transfer of Player with &#8216;An Eye for Goal&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since joining Sint-Truiden in 2022 on a permanent transfer, Hashioka has been a regular for <i>De Kanaries<\/i>. Only a short season in Belgium was needed for the Japanese right-back to impress. Several clubs in England were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk\/sport\/football\/leeds-united\/leeds-united-transfer-latest-daiki-hashioka-defensive-targets-and-whites-star-men-4495633\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rumoured<\/a> to be monitoring him, including Leeds and Manchester United, but Luton topped the group and will see how high the <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/leeds-united-now-close-to-signing-astonishing-24-year-old-player\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;astonishing&#8221;<\/a> defender&#8217;s ceiling will rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds United have continued their crusade towards Premier League promotion through January by winning five of their six fixtures and drawing the remaining one. Daniel Farke&#8217;s side sit fourth in England&#8217;s second-highest division of football. Club officials were hoping to add the announcement of a major transfer in the form of Daiki Hashioka, but were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4764,"featured_media":635117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"1706486400","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"Hashioka","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"300","footnotes":""},"categories":[6443,33,9838,3,28],"tags":[9389],"class_list":["post-634902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leeds-united","category-championship","category-luton-town","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-leeds-united-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Delight Wellington","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634902","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\/4764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}