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Official moves to sign box-to-box midfielder and defender confirmed
Yorkshire Evening Post
|June 10, 2025
Leeds United have made moves for a pair of summer transfer targets currently plying their trade in Europe - Habib Diarra and Jaka Bijol.
The Whites want to add a number of players to Daniel Farke's squad to make it more Premier League ready and both Diarra and Bijol played top-flight football in France and Italy respectively last season.
Diarra is a box-to-box midfielder and the YEP understands that reports of a £22m bid, first reported by French outfit L'Equipe, are accurate.
The four-cap Senegal international made 30 league appearances for Strasbourg last season as they finished seventh in Ligue 1, qualifying for the Europa Conference League.
Diarra scored four and set up five in the league. Whilst Leeds are obviously keen to bring him to England they currently rate a number of other midfield targets as more likely than the 21-year-old.
This story is from the June 10, 2025 edition of Yorkshire Evening Post.
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