Graham Smyth explains Leeds' January transfer strategy

Graham Smyth explains Leeds' January transfer strategy after the departure of Djed Spence and Luke Ayling leaves United light at full-back.

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00:00 I think you can easily go and get a loan, get someone in on loan to back up Archie

00:04 Grey at right back if that's who Farker's going to play there and maybe add a bit of competition.

00:09 You can definitely go and get a left back on loan. Yeah, there's absolutely no reason why they

00:16 can't or shouldn't and I think they will. They are actively hunting for at least one fullback.

00:21 The thinking at present is really what they don't want is to go and get somebody who's readily

00:28 available right now and then find out in a week or two weeks time that because

00:33 Club A has managed to get their target they're now willing to let their player go and that player

00:40 was higher up on the list than the player Leeds actually brought in because they jumped too soon.

00:44 They don't want that scenario so they want to avoid that. It's a balancing act really isn't it

00:49 between waiting on your priority targets and actually getting business done because the flip

00:55 side of it is you wait for your top target thinking well actually his club's going to get so and so,

01:01 he'll be available by the 25th, we can get him then and then your secondary target goes somewhere

01:07 else and you don't get your priority target in the end either. At times like this it's very,

01:13 very good for them to have multiple options for positions. Have two or three that Farker would be

01:19 happy with and then maybe you wait a little bit to see if you can get the top one and see what the

01:26 noises are. This is where the experience of someone like Nick Hammond I think will really

01:32 come to the fore because he should be very, very good now at reading situations and knowing which

01:40 clubs are going to move and which deals are going to happen that would then have a domino effect and

01:45 let bleeds jump in and get the one they want. At least that's the theory, that's why you have him

01:52 here, that's why he's been kept on because he's supposed to know these windows and he's supposed

01:57 to know these situations well enough to guide you through. So let's see if they can pull off a

02:04 January that looks as professional as the summer ended up looking once they'd waded through the

02:10 nonsense and the exits and the exodus.