Leeds United owner Massimo Cellino is looking towards Italy for summer transfer window reinforcements and has set his sights on former Fulham winger Urby Emanuelson.
Cellino is currently serving a Football League ban, which means he has been required to step back from running Leeds.
However, according to Sicily-based daily Unione Sarda, the Italian businessman, who formerly owned Cagliari, is plotting summer business for the Whites, with addressing the club's long-standing need for a genuine winger a priority.
To that end Cellino has zeroed in on Emanuelson, a winger schooled in the youth ranks at Ajax, but who moved to Italy in 2011 with AC Milan.
The Dutchman was shipped out on loan to Fulham in 2013 after falling out of favour at the San Siro, but only eventually left AC Milan on a permanent basis last year to join Roma.
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Emanuelson signed for Atalanta in the winter transfer window this year in a bid for regular first team football, but he has now fallen onto Cellino's radar as a potential signing for Leeds.
The Dutchman has already sampled English football with Fulham and at the time admitted there were big differences between playing in England and Italy.
Emanuelson told Inside Futbol: "Football in England is faster. Moreover, the referees are more tolerant, while sometimes in Italy it is frustrating to see the game stopped every minute because of a foul."
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