Millwall should move for Leeds United attacker – It would soften the blow of missing out on Alfie Devine | OneFootball

Millwall should look to sign Sam Greenwood to add technical quality to their attack after missing out on Alfie Devine.

The 2025/26 Championship campaign is expected to be an exciting one for Millwall, and they could enhance their chances of a promotion push by pursuing a move for Leeds United’s Sam Greenwood in the final few weeks of the window.

Millwall missed out on the top six and the play-off places on the final day of last season, with the Lions in excellent form in the second-half of the campaign under the management of Alex Neil.

Neil has overseen some intriguing recruitment this summer, too, with the permanent addition of Josh Coburn and the signing of Alfie Doughty among the standout pieces of incoming business at The Den.

One player they are said to have missed out on, though, is Alfie Devine, with the Tottenham Hotspur youngster instead moving on loan to Preston North End, rather than across the capital city and down into Bermondsey.

Millwall have the nucleus of a very strong squad and adding an extra bit of technical quality in the form of Greenwood could push them over the line and into the play-off places.

Greenwood would be the ideal signing after missing out on Devine

Millwall have a very strong squad at the moment, with Neil managing to get the most out of the players he has, whilst finding a good balance between profiles, ages and positions.

The construction of it means that the platform and the foundation has been laid, with the work done by Neil last year, to mount a serious and sustained challenge for promotion.

That was perhaps best shown on the opening day, too, as they defeated Norwich City by two goals to one at Carrow Road with a hard-working 4-4-2 system, almost even a 4-2-4, providing them with the tenacity and organisation, as well as quality in the final third.

Macaulay Langstaff, a player seemingly born to be a difference-maker off the bench for an upper-mid-table and ambitious Championship side, notched the winner after the excellent quality of Camiel Neghli had initially given Millwall the lead in Norfolk.

Neghli, alongside fellow winger Femi Azeez, represents a higher level of technical quality than the rest of the Millwall squad, but there is still perhaps something missing more centrally.

Josh Coburn played as a nominal number ten in that game and, whilst effective, there will come a point this season where a so-called ‘lock-picker’ will be desired if Millwall are chasing a game against a stubborn side.

Devine may well have been the one that was being targeted to be that, but now they have to move on and Greenwood would be an excellent alternative.

Greenwood offers Millwall the chance to mix things up

Neghli and Azeez provide directness out-wide, with Coburn something of a target-man figure, whilst Mihailo Ivanovic is their focal point striker up-front.

Langstaff provides depth off the bench in a ‘fox in the box’ capacity, whilst Aidomo Emakhu can provide pace out-wide when he comes on, but one thing Millwall perhaps lack is a central creative spark.

They have the hard-working midfield of Capser De Norre and Billy Mitchell backed up by Ryan Leonard and Luke Cundle, and Massimo Luongo can provide something further up the pitch, but an out-and-out attacking midfielder is still missing, and would be the icing on the cake to what is already a strong squad.

Having struggled to make himself a regular at Leeds, Greenwood has now asserted himself as more than good enough to play a key role in the final third for Championship sides, as he has done with loan stints at Middlesbrough and Preston North End in the last couple of seasons. Leeds Live report that the former England youth international is attracting interest and could be leaving Elland Road on a permanent deal. What's not clear is who that club is.

If brought in, the 23-year-old would likely be used as the player to try and be decisive late on in games that are well-balanced and close, and with Millwall's aerial ability, his set-piece-taking abilities would also be something that Neil should look at positively.

He would be of the profile whereby playing every minute is not necessarily a necessity, but can provide the technical quality to prove a difference in key moments, whilst also offering positional versatility to Neil to be able to deploy him up-front, in the ‘number ten’, out wide or even in a central midfield role.

Millwall have what is already a strong squad, and it may not be missing too much, but Greenwood would certainly be able to be something a little extra or different for the South Londoners as they look to crash into the top six this season.