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Premier League side in for this Leeds United player – £6m mentioned

Lewis Cook is one of those rare homegrown players that always looked destined to go on to bigger and better things. He was a cert for the Leeds United first team, now it appears that he will be gracing the Premier League next season according to The Telegraph and BBC Radio Leeds reporter Adam Pope on Twitter.

According to The Telegraph, Leeds midfielder Cook is to sign up as a Cherries player in a £6m deal, a deal expected to be wrapped up “within the next 48 hours” by Eddie Howe as “he reshapes his squad.”

Young-star Cook, who has been at Elland Road since the tender age of seven – making 85 first team appearances, is reported to be undergoing a medical on Friday. However, as Adam Pope says in one Tweet on his Twitter page, “Cook as of today was still in Ireland at the #lufc training camp.”

Pope’s Twitter feed contains the following Tweets over the emerging Cook scenario.

The Telegraph article and the Tweets from Adam Pope have created quite a stir on Twitter where it seems that Leeds fans are trying to outdo each other. A quick read will find the term ‘Cook’ combined with ‘#lufc’ in order to play Twitter Oneupmanship in the venting  of social media spleens.

The Yorkshire Evening Post’s chief football writer Phil Hay added some fuel to the fire by expanding on the following details.

Whatever the truth of this situation is, whatever the will be the outcome, you can bet that Leeds United fans will be biting their lips in a state of nervousness when waking up tomorrow. At the forefront of their mind will be whether Lewis Cook will still be a Leeds United player. According to most media views, a lot of Leeds United supporters may find disappointment at some stage tomorrow.

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