Leeds United have blown the Championship club’s contract offer out of the water with an eight-figure agreement –
According to Swansea City sporting director Paul Watson, Leeds United’s offer to buy Joel Piroe from Swansea City was one the Welsh club couldn’t compete with.
The Whites were ambitious in their approach to summer business, bolstering their squad to the point where it appears to be stronger than last season in a number of areas.
In attack, the club spent heavily to bring in quality, signing Swansea City’s Joel Piroe on a permanent deal.
What was the price of Piroe?
Piroe joined Leeds for an initial sum of £10.5 million, which may increase to as much as £16 million if Leeds trigger certain add-ons in the contract.
His start at Leeds couldn’t have been better, as he began his career at Ipswich Town, scoring on his debut and assisting the club to their first league win of the season.
Swansea sold for what reason?
When Leeds approached Piroe, he had less than a year left on his contract at Swansea, and a new deal was on the table, according to Swansea sporting director Paul Watson.
Over the weekend, he told WalesOnline that his club just couldn’t match with Leeds’ financial heft.
a side that boasts parachute payments:
“I had many conversations with Joel.” I’ve spoken with a variety of players. I have stated that I will be two things: fair and honest.
“We ultimately wanted to try to keep Joel, but what he and his representatives wanted was not within the football club’s structure.”
“We felt we couldn’t break that structure because of the repercussions.” This was in addition to an offer that came in. We have an internal valuation, which was reached and even exceeded in several cases.
“When you get a return on investment, he said he wasn’t going to sign a new contract, and you can’t compete.”
a club with parachute payments: with a club that has parachute payments, it all came to a point where you said, what do we do, we get the best for the football club?
“We can get something, reinvest it, and strengthen it as we go.”
With a takeover secured, the club needed to demonstrate that they had the muscle to bloody some noses in the division.
Signing one of the division’s finest forwards from a team seeking to crack the top six demonstrates what the 49ers have intended to do.
When you combine that with additional signings, you have a squad that is far more capable of challenging for promotion than it was previously.
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