Leeds United are believed to be looking at several additions in the January transfer window as Jesse Marsch looks to bolster his options.
As per LeedsLive, the Leeds coach and his superiors have discussed the incomings the Whites may need to recruit during the winter transfer window, as well as outgoings to free up places and wages. This season will be unique in the way things have played out for clubs in the Premier League. With the majority of clubs having players away on international duties, it can be difficult to assess what the squad may need in the way of incomings as players could be injured, fatigued or just out of form from coming back from the tournament in Qatar. Not to mention the players who have stayed in England and been out of action for 6 or 7 weeks.
Leeds have organised friendly matches to compensate for not playing games during the 2-month hiatus as well as some extra training schedules for their players back home, and now the time is fast approaching for Jesse Marsch to assess his squad and let the powers that be, know the players he has targeted.
How many players do we need to sign in January?
1 or 2 quality players
at least 3, maybe more
Jesse Marsch said, “We’ve spoken a bit, I think in general whenever I look at windows I look at it as sort of piece by piece and window by window.”
“There’s the two-month project and what we think we need right now, then eight months and what is 14 months and trying to piece together how the cycle will present itself. We have targets. I think we’re smart enough to know that in order to achieve our goals, we want to continue to look at every position and think about how we can move forward in the right way.”
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“We also know that I think we have some young talented players that will continue to draw interest and so trying to figure out how to keep those players, how long we can keep them, what can entice them to stay and what that means to the pieces that we might need moving forward. I don’t want to talk specifically about positions.”
“We talked enough about the striker position in the summer and I don’t think that that’s gone away but I think we’re active, we’ve been active. This is one of the best parts about working with Victor (Orta) is his clarity on what the market is and what’s available and what are good fits for how we’re trying to play football is quite good.”
Leeds will certainly need a striker and a left-back as a minimum in the window, I would like to think the club has noticed our poor defence and will look at buying a quality centre-back and another attacking midfielder to help the transition from midfield to attack and give the forwards more service. What do you think, how many players do we realistically need to bring in? Let us know in the comments.
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