{"id":525687,"date":"2023-08-30T14:18:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T13:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/?p=525687"},"modified":"2023-08-30T14:18:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T13:18:27","slug":"sources-sheffield-united-beat-leeds-united-to-luke-thomas-as-loan-deal-agreed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/sources-sheffield-united-beat-leeds-united-to-luke-thomas-as-loan-deal-agreed\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Sheffield United beat Leeds United to Luke Thomas as loan deal agreed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sheffield United have agreed a deal with Leicester City for left-back Luke Thomas, sources<\/strong> have told Football Insider<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 22-year-old will join the newly-promoted Blades on a loan basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Football Insider <\/strong>revealed on Monday (28 August) that Leeds United have registered their interest in signing Thomas amid an injury crisis at Elland Road.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Sheffield<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But Premier League Sheffield United have beaten their Yorkshire rivals to a deal and are set to add him to Paul Heckingbottom’s squad for the 2023-24 campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas was absent from the squad which beat Tranmere in the League Cup on Tuesday night (29 August) in a sign his King Power Stadium exit is now imminent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas<\/a>, 22, is out of contract at Leicester in less than 12 months after penning his last extension in August 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He racked up 56 top-flight appearances for the Foxes and even started in their FA Cup final win over Chelsea in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The academy product has made 85 total senior appearances for the club, scoring twice and assisting five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the left-back is out of favour under new manager Enzo Maresca – despite the club’s relegation to the Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas is yet to play a single minute of action this season with loanee Callum Doyle preferred in a left-back role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He did, however, contribute in 180 minutes of game time as England lifted the Under-21 European Championship earlier this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Leicester\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sheffield United have lost each of their opening three Premier League games this season following promotion last term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Blades face bottom club Everton on Saturday (2 September).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other news, Sheffield United takeover value revealed as \u00a3170m talks held.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sheffield United have agreed a deal with Leicester City for left-back Luke Thomas, sources have told Football Insider. The 22-year-old will join the newly-promoted Blades on a loan basis. Football Insider revealed on Monday (28 August) that Leeds United have registered their interest in signing Thomas amid an injury crisis at Elland Road. But Premier …<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":525689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverart":"\"\"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","_grv_disable_ads":false,"grv_featured_categories":""},"categories":[7,4,3583,2822,5573],"tags":[764,267,554],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525688,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525687\/revisions\/525688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}