Leeds United will have to make a choice on the future of a number of players who are still on loan, including one who is still waiting to see if his loan club will buy him permanently.
Robin Koch and Luis Sinisterra have agreed to permanent deals to Eintracht Frankfurt and Bournemouth, respectively, while Luke Ayling is said to have rejected Sheffield United’s offer to join Middlesbrough.
Rasmus Kristensen will return to Elland Road from Roma, and Marc Roca is expected to do the same after losing his spot in Betis’ team under Manuel Pellegrini despite having a good season overall.
Gladbach is finding Leeds’ asking price of £14.5 million for Max Wober prohibitively expensive, while Brenden Aaronson helped Union Berlin avoid relegation on the final day of the Bundesliga season on Sunday.
However, it is unclear whether he will stay. The same goes for Jack Harrison at Everton, considering the Merseyside club’s financial situation, and now there’s an update on Diego Llorente’s future at Roma.
Leeds are sure that Llorente, Harrison, Wober, and Roca have done enough to join Sinisterra in leaving the club for a fee, but that remains uncertain. Football Italia provided an update on Llorente.
Diego Llorente is still waiting for Roma’s £4 million decision.
Llorente has been with Roma for 18 months, joining the club under Jose Mourinho. It comes after Mourinho gave the Spain defender his Real Madrid debut, and Llorente went on to play 54 games for Roma.
However, Mourinho is no longer in control of Roma; he was fired earlier this year and replaced by the excellent Daniele De Rossi. He helped Roma retain a clean sheet against Genoa on Sunday evening, winning 1-0.
With one Serie A encounter remaining, Football Italia reports that Llorente is still waiting to hear whether Roma will sign him permanently, despite the 49ers’ proposal for a bargain fee of £4.3 million to extend his loan.
De Rossi is a great supporter of Llorente, therefore a deal should be done.
Mourinho’s departure and De Rossi’s appointment as manager of the Italian giants may have worried the Leeds-owned defender about his playing time, but he remains an important part of De Rossi’s Roma ambitions.
While he does not start every week, he is consistently in the starting lineup. Llorente has appeared in seven of the previous ten Serie A games and recently made his debut against Fiorentina.
After scoring a fantastic goal, De Rossi praised Llorente as “tremendous” and claimed that he is technically too excellent to play defense. Llorente is doing everything he can to entice Roma into a deal.
