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title: "Leeds United: Kevin Phillips thinks Marcelo Bielsa will not sign Joe Hart"
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published: "2020-05-29T06:50:32Z"
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# Leeds United: Kevin Phillips thinks Marcelo Bielsa will not sign Joe Hart

**Former England international Kevin Phillips [has said](https://www.footballinsider247.com/leeds-united-phillips-hart/) that he doesn’t expect Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa to sign Joe Hart this summer.**

The 33-year-old former England international will be available on a free transfer this summer, having experienced a significant decline from [his country’s number one](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/joe-hart/nationalmannschaft/spieler/40204/verein_id/3299) and [Manchester City’s first choice stopper](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/joe-hart/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/40204) to [backup at Burnley](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/joe-hart/leistungsdaten/spieler/40204). Struggling for minutes with Sean Dyche’s side, Hart has played a peripheral role this season, [failing to make a single Premier League appearance.](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/joe-hart/profil/spieler/40204)

With the summer transfer window closing in and some players nearing the end of their contracts, Hart could see himself looking to find first team football elsewhere and a fresh claim by [Football Insider](https://www.footballinsider247.com/hart-would-jump-at-holding-leeds-united-talks/) has revealed that the Shrewsbury-born keeper would be pleased to hold talks with Leeds if the Yorkshire club show an interest.

Leeds’ current number one Kiko Casilla has been linked with a summer exit from the club after recently receiving an eight game ban for racially abusing Charlton Athletic loanee Jonathan Leko, as per [Football Insider](https://www.footballinsider247.com/orta-convincing-frozen-out-leeds-united-player-he-has-big-role/).

Although Hart could be a good replacement for Casilla if the Spaniard leaves Elland Road, he might not get the chance to discuss a possible move with Leeds, with Phillips [speaking](https://www.footballinsider247.com/leeds-united-phillips-hart/) of Marcelo Bielsa’s relationship with Man City boss Pep Guardiola – whose arrival at City [halted Hart’s first team status](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37130356) – and [Phillips](https://www.footballinsider247.com/leeds-united-phillips-hart/) believes that Bielsa is likely to take the same stance.

*“I do not think Bielsa would go for Joe Hart,”* he told [Football Insider](https://www.footballinsider247.com/leeds-united-phillips-hart/). “*I think he will take a similar stance to Pep Guardiola.*

*“Joe has been a wonderful goalkeeper but Bielsa is looking for someone who has a left foot, right foot and can drill it to the full-backs and the wingers. So I do not expect him to go down that route.”*

Guardiola and Bielsa are [known](https://talksport.com/football/378931/leeds-united-news-managerial-target-marcelo-bielsa-best-coach-world-according-guardiola-and/) to be close friends after the former praised the Argentine coach in the press. With that in mind, and given Hart’s lack of game-time in recent months, it’s not hard to see why Phillips feels he wouldn’t be the right fit for Leeds.

***Do you think Bielsa will sign Joe Hart for Leeds? Let us know in the comments section below…***