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AFC Wimbledon could sell Ali Al-Hamadi for just £1.5 million with Leeds United and Sunderland among the Championship clubs keen on the League Two star.

You will pardon us if we say that we are not overly shocked to see Peterborough United pick up the pace and go after this lower league talent.Posh, led by Darren Ferguson, are renowned for selecting gifted children from lower echelons of the talent pyramid and refining these rough diamonds before putting them up for auction. Furthermore, according to TEAMtalk, Peterborough is currently expressing the greatest interest in Wimbledon’s Ali Al-Hamadi. This means that the wizard of Wimbledon may yet follow in the footsteps of Dwight Gayle, Jack Marriott, and Ephron Mason-Clarke.

In the Ali Al-Hamadi race, Leeds and Sunderland are vying with Wimbledon to sign the player for a club-record £1.5 million.

At that price, Peterborough’s many other suitors ought to be trying their hardest to prevent the 21-year-old from becoming League Two’s star player. TEAMtalk claims that Leeds United, Blackburn Rovers, and Sunderland are also considering the Iraqi international.

Al-Hamadi, who has already tallied 13 goals and six assists this season, is someone who Dons coach Johnnie Jackson believes can go all the way, he tells London News Online. He’s a very good player for this level. He’s a bright light who is currently setting new objectives.

“He wasn’t scoring at the beginning of the season. We were aware of the goals.

Leeds United lost to Sunderland on Wearside.
Tuesday night saw a match between two of Al-Hamadi’s suitors, Sunderland and Leeds, with the former winning owing to a goal from 17-year-old Jobe Bellingham. Despite Bellingham’s skill as a midfielder, the former Birmingham teen’s presence at the front of the line exposed the Black Cats’ dearth of center-forward options.

Leeds, on the other hand, has recently depended on the goals of wingers Dan James and Crysencio Summerville; Joel Piroe is perhaps a better number ten, and Patrick Bamford is no longer the same force to be reckoned with in the box.