{"id":3602,"date":"2025-07-16T18:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/3602\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T18:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:32:11","slug":"leeds-complete-transfer-for-newcastles-sean-longstaff-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/3602\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds complete transfer for Newcastle\u2019s Sean Longstaff: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leeds United<\/a> have reached an agreement in principle to sign midfielder Sean Longstaff from Newcastle United<\/a>, The Athletic<\/a> reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The deal, worth \u00a310 million plus \u00a32 million in add-ons, is pending medicals and an official announcement.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old, who came through Newcastle\u2019s academy and has made 171 Premier League appearances, has already agreed personal terms with Leeds.<\/p>\n

Longstaff has one year remaining on his current deal, which Newcastle extended unilaterally last season via a one-year option. Despite that extension, Longstaff has featured sparingly in 2025 and talks over a new deal last occurred in winter 2024.<\/p>\n

According to the report, this was Leeds\u2019 third offer for Longstaff and \u201cclose to the limit Leeds were willing to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

The newly-promoted side prioritized his Premier League experience and versatility in central midfield. Longstaff, for his part, reportedly preferred Newcastle receive a fee rather than depart for free next summer.<\/p>\n

Leeds had alternative targets in place but now appear set to land the Newcastle native, pending a successful medical. The move will bring to an end Longstaff\u2019s seven-season run with the Magpies\u2019 first team, where he alternated between defensive and more advanced midfield roles and turned into a legitimate first-team and EPL-caliber player under Eddie Howe\u2019s guidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United have reached an agreement in principle to sign midfielder Sean Longstaff from Newcastle United, The Athletic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2380,2376,436,448,59,2294,2375,2379,2059,2381,1058,901,2378,101,2377,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-3602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-coming","tag-complete","tag-for","tag-front-page","tag-gb","tag-home","tag-leeds","tag-longstaff","tag-newcastle","tag-newcastle-united-transfer-news-rumors","tag-report","tag-s","tag-sean","tag-sports","tag-transfer","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}