The Leeds United Courier
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Leeds United bid $20.6M for Fábio Carvalho
The offer went to Brentford this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market3 Aug 2026
Jaka Bijol raises the bar for Leeds United
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Leeds United heard it as anything else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Harry Wilson stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Harry Wilson and Leeds United agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Leeds United
Anton Stach and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market3 Aug 2026
Sam Chambers attracts admirers
The name of Sam Chambers has come up in conversations Leeds United were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Leeds United ask about Josh King
A loan enquiry to Fulham: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad3 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Leeds United are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Jaka Bijol knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jaka Bijol trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Leeds United has picked up the phone to Brenden Aaronson
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
In brief
- Market Jonny Howson is free to find somewhere else
- Squad Jaka Bijol wants to know why he earns less