Leeds United midfielder Archie Gray may command a fee in excess of £50million to leave Elland Road this summer.
Leeds’ plans for the summer will be made a lot smoother and ambitious if they win the next two games and confirm promotion back to the Premier League.
They already have a side brimming with talent, and keeping hold of them will be something to monitor in itself.
Archie Gray valued at more than £50million amid PSR concerns
This week, a report from i News has claimed that Leeds will be facing interest from top clubs across Europe for midfielder Archie Gray.
Leeds may be in a position where a major sale or two could be forced if PSR pressure becomes too much, likely only if the club fail to achieve promotion.
Therefore, Gray would be one of the more likely saleable assets to those elite sides, as the report reads:
“They have assets to sell, of course but the players that Premier League clubs want – Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool and even Real Madrid have been linked with the prodigious Archie Gray – are those that Leeds want at the centre of their plans to become a sustainable, established Premier League club that tilts for honours in the medium to long-term.
“A potential sale of Gray – there is no valuation on a player Leeds don’t want to sell but he would surely bring in over £50m already – would be regarded as pure profit in PSR terms but would send a horrendous message about the future. Promotion would make that agonising dilemma an irrelevance in an instant.”
A report from HITC claimed that Bayern Munich and Real Madrid had scouts present to watch Gray earlier in the month, while it’s hard to go a week without a Premier League club being linked.
Tottenham, Manchester United and Liverpool are just three of the several names that are touted to swoop for the Leeds sensation.
Gray penned a new long-term contract with Leeds in January, keeping him at Elland Road until 2028, while being named the Championship Young Player of the Season more recently.
As the report says, if we get promoted, all of this speculation around Gray quickly becomes irrelevant, because he won’t be leaving.
He is a Premier League player in waiting, but a rushed move to the top flight would be a serious risk, and the money talked about makes it a gamble for the buying club too.
If we stay in the Championship, I can see Gray being one of the players to leave, purely on the basis that he’s going to make us an enormous amount of money.
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