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‘We were going to’: Angus Kinnear suggests Leeds genuinely thought about signing £18m striker this summer
Leeds United needed a new striker heading in🍒to t🗹his summer.
With Patrick Bamford struggling to stay fit and Rodrigo Moreno leaving the🎀 club, Leeds needed a new centre-forward this term.
Ultimately, the Whites ended up signing Joel Piroe from Swansea a♌fter a ✤fantastic season in the Championship, but there were other options on the table.
Indeed, according to Angus Kinnear, speaking on , Leeds were looking at Cameron Archer alongside Piroe, but the former Aston Villa stri🐽ker ultimately got a move to the Premier League with Sheffield United paying to sign the attacker.
Archer wanted
Kinnear named💧 Archer alongside Piroe 🐻as a target this summer.
“The pos🅠ition of the 49ers taking over and hiring the most successful manager in recent years. Evidencing we were going to invest in the squad, evidencing we were going to keep players we could keep like Summerville and Willy, sho🍸wing we were going to go out and buy a top Championship centre-forward, whether that was Cameron Archer or Joel Piroe, we thought that would’ve influenced people, especially when you looked at the loan options available for them,” Kinnear said.
Kinnear spoke again about Archer later in 🦩the 🔥podcast.
“Take someone like Cameron Archer, he has already had a Championship loan, he doesn’t want to go again, he wants a permanent home, we were prepared to offer him a permanent home, but he’d prefer to be in the Premier Lea🦄gue. I think Leeds have more chance of being in the Premier League regularly over the next f♋ive years than Sheffield United, but the fact we’re not there is a problem for these players,” Kinnear said.
Difficult
This is the star�♎�k reality of being a Championship club.
Leeds are a massive club, but if you’re not playing top-flight football, you, quite 𝔍simply, can’t compete with the big൩ boys.
A player like Archer wants to be on th💙e biggest stage. He’ll have one eye on the England teamꦓ, and he knows that one good season in the Premier League can elevate his career to the next level.
As long as Leeds are in th♊e second-tier, they won’t be able to compete with Premier League sides for these types of players.