The events which transpired on transfer deadline day which saw Luis Sinisterra and Jaidon Anthony trading places
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00:00 We'd been reporting for days, hadn't we, that it was so uncertain with Sinisterra.
00:05 Daniel Farke had said he felt quite confident of keeping him, but he couldn't guarantee it.
00:11 And the way Leeds were talking behind the scenes for about two weeks, you just knew that there was
00:18 a potential sting in the tail. And if they somehow, if they managed to keep Sinisterra and Janto,
00:23 it would have been, it would have felt like a miracle from that position.
00:28 With Sinisterra, it was evidently a fairly similar case to the Tyler Adams case, wasn't it? Where
00:34 a player and his representatives believed one thing to be true when it came to the exit clause
00:39 and the club believed another. Now, how that would have played out is anyone's guess. If it had
00:46 ended up in front of the AFL or in front of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, it would have been
00:52 very messy. And if that had been the case, Sinisterra would not have been turning out for
00:57 Leeds United, would he? He's not going to say, "Yeah, that's fine. I'm fine to go out and play
01:02 against Sheffield Wednesday." While in legal dispute with the club, Farke wouldn't have played
01:09 him either. There's no way Farke would have let him play had his mind been elsewhere and had he
01:15 been gearing up for a court battle with Angus Kaneir and Parag Murati. So ultimately, I think
01:23 Leeds decided to avoid that scenario and to let him get his move. But what made it all so complicated
01:34 and so drawn out was that they didn't want to leave themselves short and they wanted someone
01:39 else in return. We heard a little bit earlier in the day that Leeds had been looking at potential
01:43 swap deals. I know that Leeds were scoping out Premier League midfielders because they
01:48 were looking at a domestic situation for Sinisterra. So in the days leading up to the
01:53 window, they had been looking at a variety of Premier League wingers. Jadon Anthony was obviously
01:58 going to be looked at, I think, as one of those, especially with Bournemouth a potential
02:03 destination for Sinisterra. And then the lad was at the team hotel preparing for Brentford,
02:10 sitting down for dinner when he gets a call to say, "Would you be interested in heading north
02:16 to join Leeds United for the season?"