Preston North End director Peter Ridsdale has revealed securing a permanent deal for former and attacking midfielder Sam Greenwood may not be as straightforward as initially expected.
The 22-year-old has joined North End on a season-long loan deal from Championship rivals Leeds United after spending the majority of last season with Middlesbrough. Greenwood, who came through the Sunderland academy, scored five goals and provided three assists for Michael Carrick’s men and will hope to improve both tallies during his time at Deepdale.North End have agreed an option-to-buy clause within their agreement with Leeds and that would allow Greenwood to make a £1.5m permanent switch to the North West. However, Ridsdale has now revealed the deal could become more complicated if Daniel Farke’s side are successful in their bid to secure promotion into the Premier League after missing out in last season’s Championship play-off final.
He told the “Time will tell and we’ll see what happens there. That deal, the easiest bit is that the option-to-buy is an agreed price between Leeds United and Preston North End. It’s a classic case, isn’t it? If the loan doesn’t go OK, you don’t want to pay the fee; if the loan does go OK, everybody thinks the fee is too low or the two clubs fall out over the fee or whatever it is. In this case, the fee is agreed. If Sam loves us and we love him, the transfer fee between the two clubs is not a problem. It might become marginally more of a problem, were Leeds to be promoted – because Sam isn’t out of contract next summer.”
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