Phil Hay has been speaking about how Leeds United will look to do any deals in the January transfer window.
Last season saw Leeds enjoy a rather lavish summer transfer window as the club sanctioned eight signings which totalled just shy of £100 million. It resulted in them having a successful domestic campaign and thus, not having to interact with the difficult winter transfer window.
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This time around though, it may be too difficult for them to ignore the potential to bring in new recruits in January given how poor they are performing in the Premier League, as well as how many injuries they currently have, but despite how full the treatment room is getting, the club will seemingly not move away from how they’ve looked to do deals in the past.
Speaking on The Phil Hay Show, the Leeds United journalist himself has spoken about how he expects the club to go about any potential business.
“I think if they want to look at it seriously, they will try to find players that they can sign and players who will do them good, but I don’t see them getting pushed into deals that Bielsa doesn’t want, I just don’t think that that will happen.
“It would be pointless anyway, because players that he doesn’t want are not going to play. And also, they know that if they bring in players who are under a certain level of fitness, that it will take time beyond the end of January for them to get fit, which kind of defeats the object of signing in this particular window.”
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It will surely be warming to hear for Leeds fans that the club won’t all of a sudden become desperate in the transfer window and start compromising what Marcelo Bielsa asks for and also what has worked so well for them under both Victor Orta and Bielsa himself.
However, signings could well be necessary even if their form improves, as they are set to be without Kalvin Phillips, who they perform poorly without, as well as Patrick Bamford and Rodrigo, who are the club’s joint-second top scorers in the league. So even if they target loan deals to plug gaps until the summer, that could be better than being stubborn and doing nothing.
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