Leeds United are interested in signing Liverpool defender Nat Phillips.
Leeds’s pursuit of the 26-year-old is believed to be regardless of their head coach and sporting director appointments.
Despite that, former Borussia Monchengladbach coach Daniel Farke is among the many managerial favourites to take over at Elland Road and the German was eager to recruit Phillips when in cost of Norwich City.
Liverpool are considered on the lookout for as much as £10million ($12.7m) for Phillips, who’s beneath contract till 2025.
Phillips made solely 5 appearances final season however helped Bournemouth to promotion from the Championship on mortgage throughout the second half of the 2021-22 marketing campaign — one thing Leeds shall be seeking to do following their relegation from the Premier League in May.
The centre-back has made 29 first-team appearances for Liverpool since making his debut in 2020. He additionally spent a lot of the 2019-20 marketing campaign on mortgage at Stuttgart in the 2. Bundesliga, that includes 22 occasions as they gained promotion.
Leeds are nonetheless with no everlasting head coach to switch Sam Allardyce and a director of soccer to switch Victor Orta. Earlier this month, they named former studying director of soccer Nick Hammond as their interim soccer advisor.
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