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Leeds United’s bid for ‘irreplaceable’ Championship star has just been rejected

Shamanth Jayaram

Tue 29 August 2023 12:15, UK

Leeds Unit💞ed’s first attempt to s🎉ign Kenny McLean has reportedly been rejected by Norwich City.

There are just fourཧ days leftꦦ in the transfer window and the Whites are busy on the market. New additions in several areas of the pitch are a necessity, but none more important than the midfield.

shares the latest on Leeds’ interest in McLean.

Norwich City reject Leeds United’s bid for Kenny McLean

Leeds United have lost quite a few of their midfield🐲ers following t𓂃heir relegation.

Ty𒐪ler Adams, Marc Roca and Brenden Aaronson are no longer at Elland Road, and Daniel Farke is desperate to replace them.

The Whites have been linked with plenty of midfielders over the last few days, but interest in 31-year-old Kenny McLean came in as a bit of a shock.

Now, Leeds have made their interest concrete with a bid, 🏅⛦but they’ve failed.

Sky Sports claim Leeds’ opening bid to sign MꦇcLean from Norwich was worth £4 million. That, unsurprisingly, was rejected by🧸 the Canaries.

It remains to be seen if Farke will go back in with another bid in the coming d൲ays.

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Leeds’ interest in McLean is a bit of a shock until you realise he was one of Farke’s most trus🥃ted players at Norwich City when he was at the helm there.

Th🐻e Scotsman played 114 times for Farke, scored eight goals and provided 15 assists in all competit♒ions.

The Leeds boss absolutely loves McLean. Back in the summer of 2020, when the midfielder was linked with a move away from Carrow Road, Farke dismissed all the rumours by claiming🌄 he’s ‘‘

Now, it will be interesting🍰 to see if he can bring him to Elland Road before the window shuts.