Report – Leeds Have Made Approach For Karl Darlow In Event Of Casilla Exit | OneFootball

Late last week, Football Insider reported that Karl Darlow was on Marcelo Bielsa’s shortlist to replace Kiko Casilla if the Spanish goalkeeper left the club.

There are two reported issues with Casilla for Leeds. The first is the player joined from Real Madrid on high wages in the hopes that Leeds would be promoted.

With Leeds falling to Derby in the Championship playoffs, the club have been left with a goalkeeper on high wages who also may not want to stay in the English second division.

The reports from last week were that Kiko Casilla was set to leave Leeds and Karl Darlow was on a list of potential replacements.

Today Football Insider’s Wayne Veysey has reported that Leeds have made an approach to sign Karl Darlow.

This is what he reports:

To us this just means that Leeds are just doing their work in case a transfer is necessary. The key issue here is that Leeds are looking to see if they can get Darlow before the window closes if they have to.

So basically making sure they are not left short when the window closes and Casilla makes a deadline day move.

Karl Darlow– approach has been made by Leeds to verify availability

Today Victor Orta, the Leeds Director of Football, had this to say at a Leeds event during their pre-season tour in Australia.

So it looks like the Leeds connection to Karl Darlow is just as a failsafe in case they lose their number one goalkeeper this summer. It also seems, at the moment, that Casilla is willing to stay at Leeds and help in their promotion push.

Incidentally, Karl Darlow was also involved in a late night fracas when out with Jonjo Shelvey and Jack Colback last Friday night.

Here is a tweet from the Daily Mail’s Craig Hope on the incident. We are not sure of the severity of the incident but it has made all the papers today.