Leeds centre-back has ‘opt-out clauses’ after relegation – ‘Lucrative’ wages and overall ‘package’ an issue

Defender Max Wöber has ‘opt-out clauses’ in his contract Leeds for this summer but his expensive contract is making a possible exit difficult.

That’s according to journalist Peter Linden, who reports that the Austrian may end up remaining at Elland Road despite the exodus in recent weeks.

Several players have already left Leeds this summer following their relegation to the Championship, taking advantage of clauses in their contracts to leave either on loan or in permanent deals.

Wöber is yet to join that group despite having similar clauses in the deal he signed when he arrived in the January transfer window.

He can leave on loan or in a sale but the ‘package’ for the 25-year-old is ‘certainly not cheap’ because his contractive is a ‘lucrative’ one. Indeed, it is the best of his career so far.

His agency, Forza Sports Group, are looking around the market at potential options, particularly as the Leeds man is one of the ‘most prominent’ players in the group that they manage.

At the moment nothing is ‘going on’ though and the player has returned to pre-season training with Leeds, where he will have to be the new leader of the defence after Robin Koch returned to Germany.

Wöber’s future ‘could also lie in Germany’ or a return to the Premier League could be on the cards, but at the moment his overall package, including a valuation of €14m, is making a transfer difficult to find.