Daniel James arrives at Elland Road to finalise Leeds United transfer
Manchester United winger Daniel James has arrived at Elland Road ahead of finalising his move to Leeds United, according to Keith Downie.
James, 23, has reportedly completed his medical ahead of a club-record £30million transfer [Indendepent].
The Wales international is now meeting with club bosses at Elland Road ahead of the transfer being completed and announced.
Speaking on Sky Sports News on Tuesday [02:20pm], Downie said: “Just in the last five minutes, he’s just arrived at Elland Road. He had the second part of that medical earlier today at the club’s training ground.
“He travelled here with some family members and also his representatives in the last few minutes.
“We tried to grab a glimpse of him. I did see him head past in the car, he went into a side entrance at Elland Road into the stadium where he’ll meet with club bosses and formalise that transfer.
“Leeds United are not concerned but they’re a little bit edgy on this one because they obviously had him here two and a half years ago when he was a Swansea player and they thought they agreed a deal with him then. He passed his medical, he posed for photographs in a Leeds United shirt only for it to fall through at the last minute.”
Downie added: “He’s here. He’s inside Elland Road behind me formalising that transfer and Leeds are trying to get this pushed in in time.”
It’s on
James is here – again.
Downie brought up what happened in the winter of 2019 when Swansea pulled the plug on James’ move to Leeds then. But the chances of that happening again have to be next to zero.
Manchester United will no doubt want James gone and James will surely want to be at a club where he’ll get game time.
The Welshman should know that Leeds is the place for him to get that game-time – they’ve only wanted him for two and a half years.
Marcelo Bielsa is bound to really want this player and we’re excited to see what we can do.
Some fans have shown concern on social media but we’re not having that. Trust Bielsa and trust Victor Orta. They know what they’re doing.
In other Leeds United news, a central midfielder could also arrive today on loan.