Selling your two best players after narrowly avoiding relegation may not appear to be the smartest survival tactic.
But Leeds believe they can improve Jesse Marsch’s squad despite losing Kalvin Phillips and Raphinha. Leeds are using the windfall from Phillips’ £45million move to Manchester City and Raphinha’s £55million switch to Barcelona to rebuild their squad.
They have splashed out just over £91million on six players and have enough left in their transfer warchest to buy a striker. When the dust settles on Leeds’ transfer window, they are optimistic their squad will look better than it did on the final day of last season when they dodged relegation by beating Brentford.
