What Leeds must do before the transfer deadline

What Leeds must do before the transfer deadline on August 30

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00:00Parag Murati sat down with us after the playoff final, two days after it, and he said that

00:10whether or not players turned a profit, they would be ready, they would have what they

00:16needed to be the best or one of the best teams in the division and be competitive. And that

00:23wasn't his hope, that was his expectation. And nine days before the end of the window,

00:29they're nowhere near it. They are nowhere near it. So whilst you have to be fair and

00:36judge them at the end of the window, because, you know, God knows what will happen between

00:41now and then, there's not a lot of time to deliver it close to that. And yet there might

00:49be subjectivity and there might be people at the end of the window who say, yeah, you

00:53know, I think we'll be okay. When you say something like that, and then when the summer

00:58pans out the way it has, you need to make sure this last nine days goes above and beyond.

01:06Like it has to deliver, it can't just deliver squad players in order to bulk out the squad.

01:13It can't be the water in the processed chicken fillets. It has to be prime chunks of meat,

01:21Joe. It has to be a...

01:24That's an absolutely disgusting analogy.

01:27You're not going to get a Routier, right? You're not going to get one. You're not going

01:36to get a Somerville and you're not going to get an Archie Gray because you can't buy Archie

01:40Gray's, you know, well Tottenham could, but Leeds United cannot. But what you can do is

01:48get players who are better than the championship. And Leeds obviously believe that. So it's

01:55not like we're laying down some impossible challenge and putting up a straw man argument

02:00in order to then just beat them over the head with a scenario they could never match. Their

02:06belief is that the higher quality of player, the kind of player thereafter wasn't available

02:11at the start of the window, but would become available later. And they believe that caliber

02:15of players becoming available now.