Leeds United need a number of new players in the forthcoming summer transfer window.
Danny Mills has told talkSPORT that a tried-and-tested striker and a goalkeeper should be top of Leeds United’s shopping list this summer.
Leeds were given a huge boost on Tuesday by announcing that Marcelo Bielsa would be staying on as head coach.
Bielsa led the Whites to the playoffs this past season, but a semi-final defeat by Derby County ruined their dream of making a first Premier League appearance since 2004.
In that game, a dreadful defensive mix-up between goalkeeper Kiko Casilla and Liam Cooper cost United – who lost 4-3 on aggregate – a goal.
Kemar Roofe and Patrick Bamford scored 24 Championship goals between them last season. Tammy Abraham of newly-promoted Aston Villa scored 26 on his own.
And former Leeds defender Mills feels that a striker and shot-stopper must be top of the agenda for his old club going into the summer transfer window.
“To get into a position of strength, they’ve got to add two or three quality players. Clearly one of those would be a goalscorer,” he told talkSPORT, before adding sarcastically: “Goalkeeper, might need one of those.”
Mills is definitely right about goalkeeper, but it’s worth remembering that Roofe and Bamford missed over half the season between them through injury.
If both were fit, both would’ve scored a lot more goals and Bielsa will know that, which means the addition of a striker might not be as urgent as Mills suggests.
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