Leeds United Eye Replacement As Serie A Club Linked To £16m Winger: Should The Whites Be Selling Him?

Leeds United Eye Replacement As Serie A Club Linked To £16m Winger: Should The Whites Be Selling Him? Italian Serie A club Fiorentina have made a formal enquiry into the availability of Leeds United’s Italian international winger, Wilfried Gnonto, according to a report from Beren Cross and James Horncastle. Leeds United, who are open to sanctioning the sale, won’t let him go without first securing a direct attacking replacement. Fiorentina have other targets in that position and are yet to push this beyond an initial approach. The clock is ticking with Tuesday’s 11 pm deadline looming, and Leeds United sit in an awkward waiting game. The 22-year-old, capped 13 times for the senior Italy national side, logged just 531 minutes across 23 Premier League appearances last season. 19 of those off the bench. He registered zero goals and a single assist. Not great numbers for a player who cost the club real money. His form has collapsed LEEDS, ENGLAND – APRIL 18: Wilfried Gnonto of Leeds United looks on during the Premier League match between Leeds United and Wolverhampton Wanderers at Elland Road on April 18, 2026 in Leeds, England. (Photo by Matt McNulty/Getty Images) Zero completed dribbles in the entire 2025/26 league season. A ball-loss rate sitting near 13% of total touches. 10 tackles won all year. These aren’t the stats of someone Daniel Farke is building around. Under Farke’s possession-heavy 4-2-3-1 setup, a chaotic transition-dependent winger who can’t track back becomes a liability rather than an option. His 2023 training boycott to push through an Everton move still casts a long shadow at Elland Road. He later declared he felt “proper Leeds,” but words don’t fix a fractured relationship, especially when you’re not getting minutes. Leeds United must make a swift decision At a market valuation hovering around €16 million, this is the peak moment to sell. Fiorentina want a left-sided direct attacker because of ongoing uncertainty around Albert Gudmundsson. That’s leverage Leeds United should exploit, not sit on. Club sources have reportedly linked the winger’s exit directly to a potential loan move for Chelsea’s Mykhailo Mudryk . Mudryk’s vertical directness is exactly what Farke’s frontline needs. With arrivals like Harry Wilson and Largie Ramazani already pushing the pecking order down further, keeping an unhappy, tactically misaligned player past Tuesday simply adds dead weight to a squad fighting Leeds United’s Premier League survival battle.