The latest player to be linked with a move to Leeds is striker Billy Sharp, who is now at Southampton, and Massimo Cellino has said that even that might not be then end of his squad rebuilding.

It wouldn’t be a proper transfer window if we didn’t have at least one story in the press claiming Leeds were chasing the signature of Billy Sharp, and this summer is no exception. We were linked with him often enough during his time at Doncaster, and now Sky Sports’ understands’ that we’re one of a number of Championship clubs who want to sign him from Southampton.

Sharp moved from Doncaster to the south coast for £1.8million in January 2012 and helped them win promotion back to the Premier League, but has never managed to establish himself in the top division. He has spent time on loan at Reading and back at Doncaster, and is unlikely to be part Ronald Koeman's plans for the new season.

In total he has scored 10 goals in 18 appearances for the Saints, and he is now keen to move on in search of regular first-team football, with Leeds, Brighton, and Reading the clubs reported to be interested in bringing him back to the Championship.

And still Cellino is looking to add to the squad. After yesterday’s signing of Frederik Sorensen he told the Yorkshire Post “I still think we need more. Another central defender maybe and a forward, a goalscorer. We need to be sure that we have enough goals in the team. We can’t be without them. We will work on that until the month ends. We have time left.”

Presumably Sharp will be the striker if we manage to get him, but another name in the frame is Mali international Mustapha Yatabare, who scored 11 goals for Guingamp in France’s top division last season, and 23 in Ligue 2 the season before. But Cellino failed to agree a fee with Liverpool for 21 year-old midfielder Conor Coady, who will be joining Huddersfield instead for £500,000.

One striker who could be in hot water is Matt Smith, after a headline in the ever-reliable Daily Star claiming that he’d said that McCormack had left because Fulham are a bigger club. But the ‘article’ was quoting an interview Smith gave to the Post’s Phil Hay, and Hay has already tweeted that the Star’s headline is a complete misrepresentation of what Smith actually said!

That’s funny, it’s not like the Daily Star to sensationalise everything to try to sell more papers. Let’s hope that all gets smoothed over and we don’t end up looking for yet another new strilker.

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