Leeds United have overtaken AC Milan for Barcelona’s Junior Firpo and are edging closer to acquiring the player’s services.
Earlier today, Mundo Deportivo reported the Whites aren’t happy with the ninth-place finish and in order to climb up the table, they are planning to make quality additions this summer.
The 24-year-old will be the ‘first of few’ and his addition will help to ‘make that new leap in quality’.
Sport now explain the left-back is ‘one step away’ from Elland Road after Marcelo Bielsa’s side ‘accelerated in the last few hours to close the fringes’ of the ‘lightening operation’.
Leeds’ entry into the scene convinced the La Liga side to stop negotiations with Milan [were looking at loan deal with purchase option] for the Dominican.
It’s claimed Víctor Orta has played a ‘major role’ in helping the Premier League side get ahead of Milan.
Junior’s first preference was the Serie A side and was reluctant to move to the Premier League, before Leeds showed interest.
That’s because of the Leeds director as Junior has now ‘loved and appreciated Orta’s insistence very positively’.
The newspaper states the former Real Betis man is ‘seduced by the option’ of joining Leeds, so much so that he has ‘already started looking for a house in Leeds’.
