{"id":23811,"date":"2025-09-21T20:34:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T00:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/21\/leeds-took-a-blow-in-hopes-of-signing-man-city-star-in-january\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T20:34:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T00:34:39","slug":"leeds-took-a-blow-in-hopes-of-signing-man-city-star-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/21\/leeds-took-a-blow-in-hopes-of-signing-man-city-star-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds took a blow in hopes of signing Man City Star in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Nico O&#8217;Reilly was impressed after breaking into the Man City First Team team. (Photos Recine\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leeds is already thinking about possible additions that could be made to Daniel Fark&#8217;s team at the January transfer window, and left-back is an area that can be addressed. Gabriel Gudmunson, who joined the summer from Lille, has been living a tough life in the Premier League and was able to bring competition mid-season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And one of the players Leeds has on the radar is Nico O&#8217;Reilly, who broke into Man City&#8217;s first team during 2025. The 20-year-old has been impressed with the left-back in recent months.<\/p>\n<h2>Man City doesn&#8217;t want Nico O&#8217;Reilly to leave in January<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nico O&#8217;Reilly in Action for Manchester City (Photo: Justin Setterfield\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ait-Nouri will regain the place when he returns, but even if that happens, Man City has no plans to allow O&#8217;Reilly to leave, as Pete O&#8217;Rourke told Football Insider.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If Nico O&#8217;Reilly becomes available in the market, it&#8217;s not just Leeds who are clearly looking at him. He remains highly regarded as Etihad and I think Pep Guardiola sees him as an important part of his long-term planning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;He is trying to maintain a city that is fighting the city for all aspects, especially for honors such as the Premier League and the Champions League. I don&#8217;t think Pep Guardiola wants to undermine his team.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame Leeds has no chance to sign O&#8217;Reilly, but likewise it makes a lot of sense for Man City to hold his services.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nico O&#8217;Reilly was impressed after breaking into the Man City First Team team. (Photos Recine\/Getty Images) Leeds is already thinking about possible additions that could be made to Daniel Fark&#8217;s team at the January transfer window, and left-back is an area that can be addressed. Gabriel Gudmunson, who joined the summer from Lille, has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-23811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}