Leeds United’s 2025 summer transfer window may well be in preparation for a Premier League return, with the Whites looking strong in the Championship this season.

Leeds United are well on track to challenge for automatic promotion from the Championship this season, in what is their second year back in the second tier.

Last season, Daniel Farke guided his side to Wembley, but Leeds United lost the play-off final to Southampton in the end.

Though Leeds recruited well in the summer, kept their cool and are now one of two standout teams in the Championship along with Sheffield United.

Last time out, Leeds United beat Middlesbrough 3-1 to briefly return to the top of the Championship table, but the Blades have since retaken the top spot after a 1-0 win at Millwall in the week.

Quickly, attentions are turning towards the January transfer window. But for Leeds, there might be an eye on next summer, and on former player Kalvin Phillips.

Door could be open for Leeds United to seal sensational Kalvin Phillips reunion in 2025

Phillips, 29, left Leeds United for Manchester City in 2022. Since, the England midfielder has featured just 16 times for City, enduring a tough loan spell with West Ham last season and since joining Ipswich Town on loan.

Leeds United fans wanted a Phillips reunion in the summer but promotion meant Ipswich Town had the upper hand.

Now at Portman Road, Phillips has featured just seven times in the Premiere League this season, being an unused substitute in Ipswich’s last two games now.

But an emerging report from GIVEMSPORT says that ‘Manchester City will consider selling’ Phillips next summer ‘as part of their rebuild’.

But the Leeds United academy graduate remains under contract at the Etihad Stadium until 2028 and is reportedly earning a staggering £150,000-a-week in wages, so Leeds and City would have to reach some kind of agreement.

What Phil Hay said about Leeds re-signing Kalvin Phillips is very interesting

Last season, journalist Phil Hay gave his verdict on Leeds re-signing Phillips, should they have earned promotion to the Premier League.

Hay explained that the move would be entirely up to Farke. He said: “If Leeds do go up, it will 100 per cent depend on how Farke sees his team and what he thinks he needs because he has dictated everything in terms of transfers.”

Hay added: “I don’t know what his thinking would be with Phillips but it is going to be down to him. It’s most certainly going to reoccur as a story in the summer.”

Leeds then at least need promotion before they can consider a possible reunion with Phillips in 2025.

But it could be a very shrewd move for the Whites and a good move for Phillips too, who’s endured a tough spell since leaving Elland Road.

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