Leeds United are stepping up their interest in a move for Manchester City starlet Nico O’Reilly ahead of the January transfer window, according to Football Insider.
The Whites have had a strong start to their Premier League season since returning from the Championship, with two wins and a draw in their opening five games, including a 3-1 win over Wolves this past weekend.
But despite their good start to the season, the 49ers are already looking at ways they could strengthen their squad in the winter transfer window and 20-year-old O’Reilly has emerged as a top target.
Leeds Want to Sign O’Reilly in January
O’Reilly, who has been described by Pep Guardiola as ‘unbelievable’, has become a regular in the Man City side in recent weeks playing as a left-back, with summer signing Rayan Ait-Nouri unavailable due to injury.
He also featured regularly at the back end of last season and performed well, which saw Guardiola opt to keep him as part of his squad for this campaign despite strong transfer interest during the summer window.
But Leeds United are ready to try and bring the player to Elland Road to help continue his development with regular first-team football, but face competition from European giants Chelsea, Bayer Leverkusen and Lyon too.
However, it has now been revealed by transfer insider Pete O’Rourke that Man City have no intention of letting the young Englishman leave the club.
Chelsea are big admirers of him, there’s been talk of interest from abroad as well by Leverkusen, Lyon.
“But for me, Nico O’Reilly probably will remain at Manchester City. I don’t see City opening the door for him to leave.”
Leeds had an incredibly busy summer transfer window as Daniel Farke added ten new first-team players to their squad, while they also welcomed Jack Harrison back into the fold following his two-year loan spell at Everton.
Anton Stach, Noah Okafor, Jaka Bijol, Lucas Perri, Sean Longstaff, Gabriel Gudmundsson, James Justin, Sebastian Bornauw, Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Lukas Nmecha all arrived during the summer, but Farke knows that adding more Premier League experience will help them to avoid a potential relegation battle in the second half of the campaign.
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