New England Revolution Eye Jack Harrison for MLS Return

Jack Harrison, the 29-year-old Leeds United winger, has been linked with an MLS return to the New England Revolution. The report comes from fan-media coverage in mid-June, not from either club. It landed while he sits on loan at Fiorentina and his Elland Road future looks unsettled under Daniel Farke.

The pull behind the story is easy to read. He went to school in Massachusetts, broke into senior football in New York, and now answers to a manager rebuilding his wide attack. Whether any of it becomes a transfer will come down to calendar dates and wage math, and both point to the same summer.

What the Rumor Rests On

The story traces to The Blazing Musket, a New England supporters’ outlet, and spread through English coverage between June 11 and June 13. The claim runs simply: the Revs are interested in the winger, and his American schooling is cited as the personal hook. A switch would mark a return to his American roots.

There is no official confirmation from either club. No Revs release names him, no Leeds statement has gone up, and there is no public word on the shape of any deal. A loan, a permanent sale, or a move pre-arranged for a future window would each carry different costs and different timing.

That uncertainty is the thing to hold onto right now. Rumors of this kind move from fan site to aggregator to social feed within hours, picking up confidence they have not earned along the way. The logic here is sound, the player is real, and the connection is documented. The deal is not.

His exact wages were not disclosed, and the Italian club’s purchase option, if one exists, has not been confirmed in its own materials. Those blanks are precisely the details that decide whether a move is cheap, expensive, or impossible.

Leeds Have Reasons to Cash In

Daniel Farke is reshaping his squad for a second Premier League campaign, and the winger’s place in that plan looks thin. His minutes had already dried up before the winter, which is part of why he was allowed to leave on loan in January in the first place.

The contract is where the incentive sits. He signed a five-year contract that runs to summer 2028, a point Leeds confirmed when they announced his new deal in April 2023. That is a top-flight salary committed to a player who is currently nowhere near the first team.

Clearing wages of that size does two useful things at once. It opens budget for the fresher wide options Farke wants, and it removes a long contract that could otherwise sit on the books as dead weight for two more years. For a club managing Premier League finances after promotion, that math is hard to ignore.

A sale also beats the alternative of carrying him to 2028 and watching the asset depreciate. He is 29 now. A buyer willing to take on the salary, whether in Italy or the United States, solves a problem the Yorkshire club would otherwise face later on worse terms.

The Elland Road Story That Stalled

The current limbo is not new for this relationship. After Leeds were relegated, he spent two seasons on loan at Everton, returned to the club in 2025, then left again in January, this time on loan to Fiorentina for the rest of the season.

Leeds put the latest move on the record plainly.

Leeds United can confirm Jack Harrison has joined Italian side ACF Fiorentina on loan until the end of the 2025/26 season.

That was the club’s own wording when the deal closed. The Italian side, the statement added, wanted him as they tried to climb clear of the Serie A relegation places. He went out to keep playing, not because anyone fell out.

None of this erases what he gave Leeds earlier. He was central to the 2020 promotion and to the ninth-place Premier League finish that followed, results supporters still hold dear. That goodwill is real, and it is separate from the cold squad-planning question facing the club now. Sentiment rarely survives a wage bill.

His American Roots Run Deep

Before the Premier League, before Manchester City, there was prep-school football in Sheffield, Massachusetts. Harrison attended Berkshire School and left with one of the standout scoring records in its history, the kind of return that puts a teenager on professional radars. Berkshire School’s notable-alumni page still lists him alongside Leeds and his first senior club.

He turned professional in 2015 and entered the MLS draft, then began his senior career with New York City FC before the move to Manchester City in 2018. He attended an American boarding school and played his first professional football in the United States, so a New England return carries a logic a cold transfer listing would miss.

His record across those stages reads like this:

The Revolution’s Roster Squeeze

New England went into 2026 with 25 players already under contract, according to the year-end roster release. That is a fairly full book before any summer additions, which means an incoming winger would need a slot to open up or a designation to be spent.

The appetite seems to be there. A February column from the same fan outlet argued the Revs should spend more and add an attacker, so a wide forward fits a need the club’s own supporters have flagged.

New England has also shown it will reach for premium roster tools when it wants a particular player. United States goalkeeper Matt Turner returned on loan through June 30, 2026, classed as a Designated Player in 2025 and Targeted Allocation Money (TAM) eligible in 2026. He arrived with 52 senior caps and a national-team record of 29 wins and 27 clean sheets, a marquee return for the club.

That precedent matters for a high earner. A player on Premier League wages cannot simply be dropped into a standard roster spot, and the Turner deal shows the front office understands the mechanisms. Attacking spending is where the league’s ambitious clubs are competing, as another club’s bet on young attacking talent showed this season.

Any Deal Waits on the July Window

None of this can be pushed through on a handshake. Major League Soccer (MLS) runs fixed registration periods, and the relevant one does not open until the middle of summer. The league set out the calendar when it published its updated 2026 transfer window dates.

The mechanics that govern any signing line up like this:

• Secondary Transfer Window: open July 13, close September 2, 2026.
• International Transfer Certificate: requested only during the registration periods.
• Roster freeze: October 9, 2026.

So a deal for the winger, if one comes together, lives inside that July-to-September corridor and has to be done well before the autumn freeze. The timing also falls in a World Cup year, with the league pushing hard to turn new viewers into ticket buyers, an effort traced in Don Garber’s bet on converting World Cup fans.

The window opens July 13. Until it does, the only confirmed facts are that Leeds have decisions to make and a New England supporters’ outlet put a name in the air.