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If Leeds United are to have another crack at getting promoted next season, then they must learn from their mistakes last summer and not take such a top-heavy approach to transfers in the upcoming window.
The Whites splashed the majority of their transfer budget on one player last year, and that move backfired as their signing didn’t hit the heights that were expected of him.
Last year
The Yorkshire club brought in two players for a fee last summer, Barry Douglas and Patrick Bamford.
The left-back cost the Whites around £3 million while Bamford cost £10 million, and if you had to decide who has had the better season, it would be tough.
The former Wolves man has been plagued by injury but has had a string of good performances when he has featured, whereas Bamford underperformed and wasn’t even considered Marcelo Bielsa’s first choice up top as Kemar Roofe often started ahead of him.
This year
12 months on from those signings Victor Orta must admit where he went wrong and change the policy.
Squad depth proved to be a massive problem for the Whites in the final weeks of the season and the playoffs, so they should look to bring in multiple players for a smaller fee rather than splashing out on one luxury player like Bamford and hoping for the best.
With Kalvin Phillips, Pontus Jansson and Kemar Roofe all possibly headed out of Elland Road, the Yorkshire club may have a big job on their hands to replace those three players, but they should allocate their funds evenly between the positions that need filling.
Last season’s signing of Bamford proved that papering over the cracks with one big money signing doesn’t work, especially when certain areas of the squad are incredibly light in terms of depth.
Leeds must sign an adequate number of players, and to do that they mustn’t splash the majority of their budget on one big name.
