{"id":21344,"date":"2022-06-17T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T19:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/06\/17\/phillips-on-his-way-out-leeds-confirm-3rd-signing-of-the-summer\/"},"modified":"2022-06-17T15:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T19:00:32","slug":"phillips-on-his-way-out-leeds-confirm-3rd-signing-of-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/06\/17\/phillips-on-his-way-out-leeds-confirm-3rd-signing-of-the-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillips on his way out? Leeds confirm 3rd signing of the summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Premier League outfit Leeds United have, on Friday, confirmed a fresh addition to the club\u2019s personnel ranks.<\/p>\n<p>The latest player to have opted to take his talents to Elland Road ahead of the 2022\/23 campaign? Marc Roca.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern Munich outcast Roca had of course been widely tipped to make the move to make the move to west Yorkshire over the course of the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>This comes with the 25-year-old fresh off an altogether underwhelming campaign in the Bundesliga, and Leeds on the lookout for reinforcements in the middle of the park, amid mounting speculation surrounding the future of star man Kalvin Phillips.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Manchester City are working on both Marc Cucurella and Kalvin Phillips deals. First official bid for Cucurella will be submitted soon, while Phillips is considered the main target to replace Fernandinho. ? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MCFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MCFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez: many approaches, no intention to loan him out.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1537745367982276608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In turn, it has not come as much of a surprise to hear of the Whites, on Friday, unveiling Roca as the latest reinforcement to Jesse Marsch\u2019s ranks.<\/p>\n<p>As confirmed in a series of posts across the club\u2019s website and social media platforms, the former Espanyol standout has put pen to paper on terms with Leeds through the summer of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, it is understood, has set the Peacocks back an initial fee in the region of 12 million euros.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u270d\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LUFC<\/a> can today announce Marc Roca will join the club on July 1st 2022, after an agreement was reached with Bayern Munich<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Leeds United (@LUFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LUFC\/status\/1537832469877207042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Roca, of course, marks the 3rd addition of what has proven an altogether fruitful opening to the summer window on the part of the transfer team at Leeds.<\/p>\n<p>Having escaped the drop back to the Championship by the skin of their teeth last time out, those in a position of power at Elland Road have evidently come to the conclusion that the club\u2019s ranks are in dire need of reinforcement.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, alongside Roca, both Brenden Aaronson and Rasmus Kristensen have made the move to Yorkshire from Austrian giants Red Bull Salzburg.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/transfers\/fridays-transfer-rumours-martinez-vieira-tielemans-nunes-lewandowski-and-more\/\">Friday\u2019s transfer rumours: Martinez, Vieira, Tielemans, Nunes, Lewandowski and more<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/transfers\/fresh-off-player-of-the-year-award-southampton-confirm-signing-of-man-city-star\/\">Fresh off Player of the Year award, Southampton confirm Gavin Bazunu signing<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Premier League outfit Leeds United have, on Friday, confirmed a fresh addition to the club\u2019s personnel ranks. The latest player to have opted to take his talents to Elland Road ahead of the 2022\/23 campaign? Marc Roca. Bayern Munich outcast Roca had of course been widely tipped to make the move to make the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-21344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}