Watt returns to Elland Road as cover for Snodgrass

The England Under-19 international winger enjoyed a successful spell on loan at Elland Road last season, playing six games to help the Yorkshire club clinch promotion from League One.

Watt is United's eighth summer signing and is likely to temporarily fill the gap left by Robert Snodgrass, who is out for around a month due to a knee injury.

Leeds manager Simon Grayson was pleased with the signing, and said: "We're delighted we've been managed to bring Sanchez back.

"He did well last year and he's another good addition to our squad. He's a young and up-and-coming player who has plenty to offer and his arrival will only increase the competition for places."

One player on his way out of Elland Road is 20-year-old defender Tom Lees who has joined former Rotherham manager Alan Knill at Bury.

Knill yesterday made a triple swoop for Lees, Phil Picken and Kyle Bennett.

Lees, 20, arrives on a six-month loan deal from Leeds and will boost Knill's options at centre-half and right-back.

Joining Lees at Gigg Lane are fellow defender Picken and promising attacking midfielder Bennett, who have both signed 12-month contracts after impressing on trial following their release from Chesterfield and Wolves respectively.

CRYSTAL PALACE have signed midfielder Owen Garvan from Championship rivals Ipswich.

The 22-year-old Irishman arrives at Selhurst Park for an undisclosed fee, the first time Palace will have paid for a player since entering administration.

Liverpool midfielder Javier Mascherano has rejected claims that Diego Maradona was forced out of the Argentina job by player-power, insisting he had the full respect of his squad.

Despite crashing out in the semi-finals of the World Cup following a 4-0 defeat to Germany, Maradona was offered a new four-year contract by the Argentinian Football Association.

Nevertheless, the 49-year-old was told he had to change seven of his backroom staff by AFA president Julio Grondona and turned down the offer.

Reports of dressing room unrest and player revolt have surfaced but Mascherano, who was captain during Maradona's reign, says the two years spent playing under the former World Cup winner were harmonious.

"There was a climate of total harmony and in the years I have been with the national team I have never seen anything like it," he told Radio Rivadavia in Argentina. "It hurts to see these things."