Leeds United signed 10 new players and spent more than £100m to bolster their squad after earning promotion to the Premier League. With four points from three games, the Whites have also made a solid start to the season, but there is a sense of doom and gloom at Elland Road since the window closed.
Robbie Evans, the Leeds managing director, has insisted that the club has spent every last penny they had without breaking the Premier League’s financial rules. He stressed that a poor deadline day should not overshadow the solid summer transfer window that the club feel they had.
However, their deadline day failures are threatening to cast a long shadow on their season, as Leeds needed that extra attacker, and their failure to sign Harry Wilson from Fulham on Monday night could have a huge bearing on their season.
Leeds did reinforce their attack over the course of the window, but each player has question marks over their fitness, and the Whites have looked toothless in the final third in the opening three Premier League games.
Can you name the team Leeds United signed these players from in the 2000s?
Leeds United boss Daniel Farke may decide to move for Josh Sargent in January
Evans has indicated that Leeds may not dip into their funds for players in the winter transfer window, but they could be forced to if things do not go according to plan.
The Whites are expected to be in the relegation scrap in the second half of the season, and Farke will demand the forwards he needed in the summer.
The Leeds boss has real admiration for Josh Sargent, and the striker was heavily linked with a move to Elland Road during the entire summer transfer window.
The Norwich striker turned down a move to Germany in the last window and has made a brilliant start to the season in the Championship.
He has scored in each of Norwich’s opening four games, and has five goals to his name already this season. He is leading the Canaries’ charge to get promoted.
Farke remains a fan of the player, and if he continues to bang in the goals in the next few months, it will not be a surprise if the German wants to reunite with Sargent at Elland Road in the winter transfer window.
Leeds fans may turn up their nose at Sargent, but he is scoring goals and is attainable
Sargent’s name does not interest Leeds fans, who want the club to show more ambition in the market and go for bigger names in the market.
Leeds did go for a few bigger names, but they all chose clubs playing European football or higher up the food chain in the Premier League.
The Whites are going to be in a relegation scrap, and there are only certain players they could sign in the winter transfer window, and Sargent is one such player.
He is showing his quality at Norwich this season, where he is feeling fitter and looking convincing in front of goal.
However, even Norwich may decide against selling the American in the winter window if they are in with a chance to get promoted to the Premier League.
Farke will hope to keep Leeds’ head above water in the next couple of months and convince the club hierarchy to give him the funds to sign a striker such as Sargent in the winter window.
Well that would compound things, Josh the two left footed chocolate fireguard Sargent upfront being American, useless and downright ugly all at once.
Don’t be silly. If Leeds thought he was good enough a bid at least would have been made