The odds have been slashed once again on Leeds United signing Leicester City striker Leonardo Ulloa this month, according to bookmakers.
SkyBet slashed the price on Wednesday morning on the Yorkshire giants snapping up Ulloa, 31, before the transfer window shuts at the start of February.
Leeds are now 6/1 to land the experienced front man, behind only favourites Aston Villa (10/11), while Sunderland (12/1) are also firmly in the betting race as well as Spanish duo Getafe (16/1) and Levante (18/1).
Last week, Leeds were priced at 14/1 by Sky Bet to sign Ulloa before the transfer window cut-off, with their price then dropping to 10/1 at the start of this week.
Leeds have struggled to replace the goals of 2016-17 Championship top scorer Chris Wood since he left in a £15million transfer to Burnley despite signing three strikers last summer in Pierre-Michel Lasogga, Jay-Roy Grot and Caleb Ekuban.
The Argentine powerhouse, known for his physicality and hold-up play, appears to be well down the pecking order at Leicester with Jamie Vardy, Kelechi Iheanacho, Islam Slimani and Shinji Okazaki all seeming to be above him in Claude Puel’s plans.
The Daily Star report that Ulloa earns £27,000-a-week at Leicester.
OPINION
Ulloa would be a brilliant short-term fix for Leeds. The question is, can they afford him? United have hunted around the bargain basement for new signings since Andrea Radrizzani’s takeover, as they take punts mainly on young and unproven talent who have little in the way of Championship experience. At 31, Ulloa is at the other end of his career, and has the kind of salary that would normally given Leeds top brass nose bleeds. But they negotiated a deal with Hamburg in which the Bundesliga outfit paid two-thirds of Lasogga’s £50,000-a-week wages, and would need to do something similar to land Ulloa. The Argentine lacks the finesse to play regularly for a top-ten Premier League club – he has made just six appearances this season – but he has an outstanding track record in the Championship, scoring 26 goals in 58 matches for Brighton, with 23 of those strikes coming in the league alone. Out of contract at Leicester in the summer of 2019, Leeds could do a lot worse than make a loan move for the big front man.