This time, Daniel Farke managed to lead Leeds all the way and back to the Premier League. The gang from Elland Road was helped by league runners-up Burnley, who beat Sheffield United and ensured that Sheffield cannot take direct promotion tickets from Leeds and Burnley. A Premier League player probably paid extra attention to this game. A match that opens up for a liberating return to Leeds.
It is, of course, Kalvin Phillips, who left the club in 2022 after 234 games in the white Leeds shirt. For Leeds supporters, it has been a suffering to see the club’s big son crumble with Pep Guardiola. The City manager was early to apologize, he doesn’t really have a place for Phillips in the well-directed City machinery. Then came the statement that Phillips had become too fat during the World Cup finals in Qatar.
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Last summer, we almost begged Leeds to come to an agreement with City, where Phillips gets home and plays back to the creative and exuberant football genius he was at Elland Road.
Now it is moving towards a solution.
TEAMtalk claimed last month Leeds have received a verbal agreement to sign Kalvin Phillips from Manchester City if they are promoted to the Premier League. Now the promotion is in place. Leeds scouts have recently been following Kalvin Phillips who is on loan at Ipswich this season. The 29-year-old is not quite back to good old Leeds form, but has been on the pitch 19 Premier League games this season and shows he is well on his way back.
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Football-Insider’s sources claim Phillips himself is interested in putting on the Leeds shirt again before the coming season, on Monday came the promotion that makes it possible.
