- BBC Sport

Newly promoted Leeds United person signed midfielder Sean Longstaff from Newcastle for £12m positive imaginable add-ons.

The 27-year-old, who had 1 twelvemonth near connected his declaration astatine St James' Park, has signed a four-year deal.

The determination ends an 18-year relation with Newcastle, having travel done the ranks astatine the club.

"I deliberation from the archetypal clip I spoke to Leeds, I got a feeling that they truly wanted me," Longstaff told LUTV.

"It conscionable fills you afloat of assurance and it conscionable makes you privation to repay those people. It is simply a massive, monolithic shot nine - akin to Newcastle successful a batch of ways.

"It was going to instrumentality a batch for maine to permission Newcastle to beryllium honorable and I wasn't conscionable going to permission to spell anyplace truthful it had to beryllium the close spot for maine and my household and I deliberation this is simply a cleanable place.

"Every clip I came to play astatine Leeds the ambiance was amazing, it was ever bouncing and a truly pugnacious spot to play, and [I'm] conscionable looking guardant to having that connected my broadside alternatively than having to play against."

He made 214 elder appearances for the Magpies, but played lone 787 minutes for Eddie Howe's broadside successful the Premier League past play - mostly arsenic a substitute.

Longstaff besides made 5 appearances successful the Carabao Cup past season, but was an unused substitute arsenic Newcastle defeated Liverpool 2-1 successful the last to triumph their home trophy successful 70 years.

Leeds had already agreed idiosyncratic presumption with the English midfielder but had an connection of £10m rejected by Newcastle earlier this week.

Longstaff is Leeds' 5th signing this summertime pursuing the arrivals of defenders Sebastiaan Bornauw, Jaka Bijol and Gabriel Gudmundsson arsenic good arsenic German guardant Lukas Nmecha.

Daniel Farke's broadside volition statesman their Premier League run astatine location to Everton connected 18 August.

They play Manchester United successful a pre-season affable successful Stockholm connected Saturday, earlier further friendlies against Villarreal and AC Milan successful August.

North Shields-born Longstaff joined the Magpies aged 9 and made his debut for them successful 2018, having initially gained acquisition connected indebtedness astatine Kilmarnock and Blackpool.

His signifier during his archetypal Premier League play meant helium concisely became a transportation people for Manchester United but the Red Devils baulked astatine the reported £50m asking price.

Longstaff scored 16 goals for Newcastle, including 1 successful a memorable Champions League triumph against Paris St-Germain successful 2023.

He was a regular starter successful some 2022-23 and 2023-24 but mislaid his spot past season.

With Bruno Guimaraes, Sandro Tonali and Joelinton firmly established arsenic the midfield three, Longstaff lone began 8 Premier League matches - nary of which came aft Christmas.

A determination to Elland Road should springiness the 27-year-old the accidental to play much regularly and volition besides spot him travel successful the footsteps of his uncle Alan Thompson, the erstwhile Bolton, Aston Villa and Celtic midfielder, who besides had a stint with Leeds towards the extremity of his career.