David Prutton has insisted that Leeds United fans need to place some level of trust in the owners and their sincerity in bringing in players who could move the club forward.
Leeds lost players such as Archie Gray, Crysencio Summerville and Georginio Rutter to clubs in the Premier League in the last summer transfer window.
The trio were pivotal cogs in a Leeds team that came within a whisker of promotion to the Premier League last season when they lost the playoff final to Southampton.
Leeds needed to sell players after failing to achieve promotion in order to balance their books and Gray’s sale tipped the scales towards making sure that the club remained within PSR limits.
The Whites fans have been restless about the kind of business Leeds did in the summer, which involved bringing in a few players in a last-minute dash on deadline day.
David Prutton urges Leeds United fans to trust the owners
The former Leeds star conceded that he is aware why the Whites fans want the owners to say something about the window but he is not sure what else the hierarchy can say about what happened in the summer.
He admitted that Leeds like most clubs in the world are a selling club and couldn’t have done much to stop the sales of their key players in the last window.
Prutton feels the Leeds fans must have some trust in the professionals who signed players in the summer. The owners are likely to be as desperate as the supporters to get back to the Premier League.
“I can understand people wanting the 49ers to come out and say something after the summer transfer window. I totally understand that”, the former White wrote in his column for the Yorkshire Evening Post.
“If you’re a fan who is there every single week and living and breathing it then I totally get why you’d want that. But what can they say? We sold our three best players because the money involved was astronomical and could not be turned down, what with the release clauses involved.
“I don’t really understand what else you can explain with that? Nothing. Money talks and Leeds, like 99 per cent of the footballing fraternity in this country are all selling clubs.
“And with regards to players coming in then as a fan you put your faith and your trust in people striving to get the best that they possibly can and if they’re not then they shouldn’t be in the job.
“I’m not advocating them not coming out and saying something but they are a professional entity and you have to remember what Leeds have tasted in the years away from the Premier League.
“If you are assuming that they are not moving heaven and earth to get players in then that’s a depressing state of mind with regards to how your football club runs.”
Leeds are sitting fourth in the Championship standings and will host fellow promotion hopefuls Burnley at Elland Road on 14th September.
