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Harrison

Just been reading the Sky Sports report on a new contract for him. Didn't realise that he was actually at Leicester undergoing a medical with the clubs having agreed a fee at £20million!!!.

This explains the muted celebrations for his goal against Accrington.

Think the board have made a major f**k up on this. Bad enough letting him go in the first instance but to offload for a paltry £20 million beggars belief!

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9 Comments

Enoch's extra leg

Feb 03, 2023

maybe we decided to waste Leicester's time on deadline day,they are a relegation rival,maybe it was massive sh1thousery from us so they wouldn't have time to sign anyone else.

usually I would put it down to us not knowing what we wanted to do but Llorente signing a new deal before being loaned out with an option to buy shows the board is getting more savvy..

Soopaleeds

Feb 03, 2023

Jesse Marsch has just talked about it - it's true Smurf.

Smurf

Feb 03, 2023

Replying to

I'm not questioning that there was a bid or that the club accepted it. I'm questioning the report that Leeds shot down the deal at the eleventh hour with Harrison at the King Power Stadium holding the pen and ready to sign . Marsch seems to suggest that the club allowed JH to talk to Leicester whilst also matching what they were offering. And that it was Harrison's decision to stay as opposed to Leeds withdrawing from the sale. That's a very different story to the one that was circulated yesterday.

Soopaleeds

Feb 03, 2023

Replying to

He went to Leicester Smurf - he did start the medical process - Brendan Rodgers met him and spoke to him - in Leicester....

That's from Brendan Rodger's mouth

I do appreciate you're eternally skeptical but this is for real.

Direct from the TV interview I watched.

Rodgers said: “It was surprising that the player was going to be available in the first instance. When it gets as far as it did… I met the player and spoke with the player."

Smurf

Feb 04, 2023

Replying to

I'm not querying any of that. I'm querying how the narrative has been spun, that Leeds wanted to sell Harrison and then backtracked at the last hour, when it's becoming increasingly clear that it was Harrison that backtracked not the club. That's certainly my understanding what Marsch was indicating.

Stevethemouse

Feb 03, 2023

I understand from twitter ( so who knows)

that he was on the way to do the medical when leeds agreed to match the deal he was happy and came back

TC10

Feb 03, 2023

Hopefully Jack will be back having his 2 great games followed by the anonymous 5....i still think he'd be the perfect left wing back but we'll never play this system.

You have to take reports from LeedsNewsNow like a Lord Blusteryfanny weather forecast as the opposite will be correct....

Smurf

Feb 03, 2023

I’m not sure how much credence I give this story. I have no doubt Leicester made a bid, and that Leeds fearful of the players value plummeting would certainly have considered it. But if I was Harrison, would I want to go to Leicester, a team who are also in the relegation mix? Not with the likes of Newcastle also hovering. It’s hardly a step up. I don’t buy the proposition that the player was at Leicester pen in hand and that wr suddenly pulled it. Unless there’s a quote form the club or player, I have no confidence in any of the sports journalists when it comes to tittle tattle.

Soopaleeds

Feb 03, 2023

I suspect there's a bit more to it.

On the one hand...

Harrison hadn't signed a new deal so with less than 18 months on his current deal the club needed to bring the situation to a head.

Maybe the whole incident has crystallised minds on whether he wants to go or not, what he's actually worth and how much an equal club want to pay him.

I don't think the club ever wanted him to go or that he wanted to leave, but he's drifting toward the exit door for free.

On the other hand we may have believed until the last minute Zaniolo was coming in to replace him - if that's the case Harrison will just leave in the summer instead.