Norwich City: £15m Leeds United claims amid Ligue 1 twists | OneFootball

Our Leeds Fan Pundit looks at his sides chances of getting this deal over the line

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The saga regarding where Norwich City's Jon Rowe is likely to end up playing this season is still dragging on, but Leeds United have been handed a potential boost in the race.

That's thanks to French side Marseille, who the Whites were battling for the Norwich man's signature, after it emerged that the Ligue 1 outfit were beginning to back away from a proposed deal for the winger.

The Yorkshire club have vacancies to fill out wide this summer after Crysencio Summerville and Luis Sinisterra departed on permanent deals to West Ham United and Bournemouth respectively.

Our Leeds Fan Pundit, Kris, provides us with his thoughts on the latest twist.

The Leeds fan feels that, having already gone to market for other targets in a similar price bracket, his club just need to pull the trigger and seal this deal.

Speaking to Football League World, Kris said: “When a fairly big top-flight club like Marseille comes calling, you’d usually expect that it’d rule a team out like Leeds in the Championship, given the money that’d usually be talked about with a deal like that.

“But, the fact that Marseille are possibly out of the running, it should be really ringing alarm bells for the 49ers that Rowe’s all of a sudden attainable for us.

“How much Marseille deem to be too expensive for a talent such of Rowe is kind of hard to say, because they might have a different valuation that Leeds and Norwich have, but I can’t imagine that Norwich would be asking much more than £15million, for a player that’s: a) itching to leave and b) has a fairly tricky contract situation, despite the fact that he’s obviously a brilliant talent. “And Leeds have shown their appetite to pay up that sort of money, around £15million, having had a bid for Jesurun Rak-Sakyi rejected by Crystal Palace for that amount.

“It does make sense that we’d be willing to stump up that sort of money for Rowe. We’ve got that money ready and available, we just need to get it done as soon as possible really.”

Another twist in the Rowe tale

With Marseille backing out of the race for Rowe, it seemed like the coast was clear for Leeds to conclude this business and secure their replacement for the likes of Summerville.

However, as now appears to be the pattern with the 21-year-old's future this summer, there was yet another twist, again coming from across the Channel.

according to journalist Santi Aouna.

It provides a clear demonstration of just how in demand the forward is.