The 30-year-old Llorente has been on loan at Serie A powerhouse Roma for the past 18 months. With 54 matches under his belt, the Spain international made it to the Europa League final with the Italian team the previous year.
Roma extended his tenure at the Olimpico for the 2023–24 season after initially signing on for the second half of the previous year. After Jose Mourinho was fired, he went on to play in 42 games this season, starting some of them.
Recently, he tied Fiorentina with a late equaliser, and Daniele De Rossi, the manager of Roma, said about the
In fact, it was reported that Leeds was confident in selling him and that Lorenzente had persuaded Roma to pay £4.3 million for him. However, an update from TuttoMercatoWeb indicates bad news for the Yorkshire club.
Similar to Rasmus Kristensen, they assert that Roma would “probably” not extend Llorente’s stay in Italy and that he will return to Leeds in the summer before making another exit.
Diego Llorente now expected to return to Leeds from Roma
Given that Roma would only need to invest £4.3 million to acquire him permanently and that Leeds were quite confident, it comes as a bit of a surprise. With his playing time under Mourinho and De Rossi, it’s obvious they value him.
Despite Llorente’s playing time and the low price Roma has set, TMW claims that Roma are attempting to cut costs and simplify their team, which is likely to rule out a permanent move for Llorente.
What are the state of other out-on-loan Leeds players?
After his loan period expires, Luis Sinisterra will transfer to Bournemouth, and Robin Koch has permanently joined Frankfurt. Kevin Thewell, the sporting director of Everton, claims that his team has a strategy in place for winger Jack Harrison.
Max Wober is wanted by Leeds for £14.5 million, and Gladbach is hesitant to pay. As previously mentioned, Kristensen is going back to Leeds, Marc Roca is anticipated to do the same, and Union Berlin has verified Brenden Aaronson will do the same.
Therefore, even though Leeds was able to move Sinisterra for a price over £20 million, there is still much work to be done in order to generate revenue for the eight players that remained after using Orta’s relegation loan clause.
