Graham Smyth explains Leeds' January transfer strategy after the departure of Djed Spence and Luke Ayling leaves United light at full-back.
Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00 I think you can easily go and get a loan, get someone in on loan to back up Archie
00:04 Grey at right back if that's who Farker's going to play there and maybe add a bit of competition.
00:09 You can definitely go and get a left back on loan. Yeah, there's absolutely no reason why they
00:16 can't or shouldn't and I think they will. They are actively hunting for at least one fullback.
00:21 The thinking at present is really what they don't want is to go and get somebody who's readily
00:28 available right now and then find out in a week or two weeks time that because
00:33 Club A has managed to get their target they're now willing to let their player go and that player
00:40 was higher up on the list than the player Leeds actually brought in because they jumped too soon.
00:44 They don't want that scenario so they want to avoid that. It's a balancing act really isn't it
00:49 between waiting on your priority targets and actually getting business done because the flip
00:55 side of it is you wait for your top target thinking well actually his club's going to get so and so,
01:01 he'll be available by the 25th, we can get him then and then your secondary target goes somewhere
01:07 else and you don't get your priority target in the end either. At times like this it's very,
01:13 very good for them to have multiple options for positions. Have two or three that Farker would be
01:19 happy with and then maybe you wait a little bit to see if you can get the top one and see what the
01:26 noises are. This is where the experience of someone like Nick Hammond I think will really
01:32 come to the fore because he should be very, very good now at reading situations and knowing which
01:40 clubs are going to move and which deals are going to happen that would then have a domino effect and
01:45 let bleeds jump in and get the one they want. At least that's the theory, that's why you have him
01:52 here, that's why he's been kept on because he's supposed to know these windows and he's supposed
01:57 to know these situations well enough to guide you through. So let's see if they can pull off a
02:04 January that looks as professional as the summer ended up looking once they'd waded through the
02:10 nonsense and the exits and the exodus.