Steven Caulker has left Scottish Premiership side Dundee so will Championship leaders Leeds United make their move to bring him to Elland Road?
The transfer window may be shut until January but Steven Caulker is still free to find himself a new club.
Just half a year after joining Scottish Premiership side Dundee on an 18-month contract, the former Tottenham and Liverpool centre-back has surprisingly left Dens Park, becoming a free-agent after just a month of the new season.
Dundee manager Neil McCann told The Courier that Caulker wanted a new challenge. And it remains to be seen where the former England international ends up next.
There should be no shortage of interest. According to The Mirror (live blog, 8.48am), Leeds United were considering a bid of £1.5 million in order to tempt Caulker back to England in early August.
And with the Championship pacesetters short of options at centre-half, many Leeds fans have taken to Twitter to encourage a move for a man who played second tier football for Queens Park Rangers.
The Whites have had a terrific start to the season under Marcelo Bielsa but injuries to Liam Cooper and Gaetano Berardi have exposed a lack of depth in the defence with Pontus Jansson the only other natural and senior centre-back at their disposal.
Signing the ball-playing Caulker, then, would make sense – particularly now he’d cost nothing.
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