Archie Gray, a midfielder for Leeds United, might get more than £50 million to depart Elland Road this summer.
Leeds will have much more ambitious and easier summer plans if they win their next two games and secure promotion back to the Premier League.
Keeping an eye on them will be a task in and of itself, as they already have a talented side.
Archie Gray valued at more than £50million amid PSR concerns – Report
According to a report from i News this week, big European clubs are reportedly interested in Leeds midfielder Archie Gray.
Leeds might have to make one or more significant sales if PSR pressure gets to be too much, probably only if the team doesn’t get promoted.
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.”
Gray wanted by Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, and multiple PL clubs
Although it’s difficult to go a week without a Premier League team being linked, a report from HITC stated that scouts from Bayern Munich and Real Madrid were present to observe Gray earlier in the month.
Just three of the many teams tipped to chase the Leeds phenomenon are Tottenham, Manchester United, and Liverpool.
In January, Gray signed a new long-term contract with Leeds, which will keep him at Elland Road until 2028. More recently, Gray was voted the Championship Young Player of the Season.
Gray won’t be leaving at all if we go up
According to the source, all of this Gray-related rumors will soon come to an end because he won’t be leaving if we get promoted.
He is a future Premier League player, but a hasty transfer to the top division would come with significant risk, not to mention the money involved, which would put the purchasing club at risk as well.
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.
