Jack Harrison - Leicester Heavily Linked with Midfielder

[Stan]

27 minutes ago, Lucas said:

I wouldn't read loads into that.

Diego Llorente signed a new deal in December and we promptly let him go out on loan to Roma with a view to a permanent deal. It meant we could sell him for £15-20m as opposed to having to accept an offer lower than what we value him.

Same with Jack. All it does is wrestles back the power in the club's hands and ensures we keep Harrison's value at the £30-£35m mark should we get any suitable buyers.

That said, he didn't want to go, and he offers great strength in depth now. We're pretty blessed in the wide areas now.

Fair enough. Similar thing we've done with players in the past to increase selling value. 

But 'he didn't want to go'. Not sure about that otherwise he wouldn't have travelled all the way to us to do a medical, surely? 

[Lucas]

1 minute ago, Stan said:

Fair enough. Similar thing we've done with players in the past to increase selling value. 

But 'he didn't want to go'. Not sure about that otherwise he wouldn't have travelled all the way to us to do a medical, surely? 

I really don't think he did. He's happy at Leeds and wants to fight for his place. Never once said he wants to go.

Out ITK has backed this up by saying this was purely a business decision by the club and one that Harrison understood even though he didn't push it.

Unfortunately the club treated him exactly like they did with Dan James going to Fulham and virtually pushed him out the door. James had the same at Fulham and waited all day for us to confirm it whilst we fucked about trying to bring someone in last August after Gakpo collapsed. It's poor behaviour to mess with someone like that, you either want them or you don't.

Jack was advised to travel to Leicester by Orta our Sporting Director and head of transfers, to take the medical just incase, given the madness of transfer deadline day.

There was no guarantees what would happen. Leicester agreed a rise on his wages and he accepted this because what choice do you have if the clubs pushing you out and you think your going to go?

What I don't categorically know is why it never went through. That will be Leeds trying to get more money out of Leicester because £20m was always too low, or because we had another potential move that didnt work out.

What has come to light today is that Rodrigo is now out for 2 months. Massive blow for us.

Bamford is back (for now) but his fitness can't be relied on. New signing Rutter was going to play wide but he can play centrally, which means Harrison will definitely be needed for out wide. That could have been the only other thing to stop it.

I'm pretty sure when the club have fucked you around like that, if you didn't want to stay, you wouldn't sign a new contract. It happens all the time in Football where sometimes you have to take the cards your dealt with even if it's not what you ideally want.