Brentford 'agree' £20m for ex-Leeds loanee Jaidon Anthony, McCarron 'to get' SPL trial | OneFootball

Leeds United’s Premier League rivals Brentford have agreed a £20m deal in principle to sign former Whites loanee Jaidon Anthony from Burnley.

Fabrizio Romano reports the package is £17m fixed plus £3m in add-ons, and that Anthony is set to sign a five-year contract.

Burnley are heading back to the Championship after last season’s relegation, but Anthony impressed individually. He spent 2023-24 on loan at Elland Road from Bournemouth, then joined Burnley permanently in May 2025.

Separately, former Leeds youngster Liam McCarron is to be offered a trial by an SPL club. The Dundee Courier reports newly-promoted St Johnstone are set to take the 25-year-old on trial.

McCarron joined Leeds from Carlisle United in July 2019 at 18, and made his first-team debut under Marcelo Bielsa in a home defeat to Arsenal that December. He later moved to Stoke City in June 2022, had a loan at Port Vale, then spells with Northampton Town and Boston United, who released him this summer after his contract expired.

Source: yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk