Leeds United would have hoped to have secured their Premier League status for 2022/23 much sooner than the final day of the season but it was clear soon after the final whistle blew at the Brentford Community Stadium that Victor Orta had already been busy on deals for the summer. News quickly broke that a deal was in-place to bring RB Salzburg's Brenden Aaronson to Elland Road and Leeds' survival confirmed that the deal would go ahead.
The American international's signing was made official less than two weeks after the end of the season and he was soon followed to Leeds by Sazburg's Danish international right-back, Rasmus Kristensen. It appears that Orta is now working on a deal to bring Bayern Munich midfielder, Marc Roca to the club next, as Leeds' squad rebuild continues at pace.
These deals are just the beginning, as the Spaniard has much work to do in the window, as Leeds' squad badly struggled to survive the rigours of their second season in the Premier League. Jesse Marsch arrived at the club in late February, replacing the departed Marcelo Bielsa, and was put into a situation where he was fighting fires in order to keep the team in the division.
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Now, there is a chance to reset and Marsch has already spoken about how the transfer window strategy would play a part in that. In a press conference in April, Marsch spoke about a meeting he and Leeds' director of football had concerning recruitment:
"[It was] about educating the scouting department what we're trying to achieve tactically, what kind of players we're looking for - creating profiles of players in each position. Also, then updating where we think we are with our current group and each individual and their adaption into what we're doing.
"I think it was a very useful meeting and we'll need to then continue to think about as we go forward, how we continue to squad build in a way. For me, I like to look at where we are now, where we want to be in six months, where we want to be in a year, where we want to be in two years and then kind of map out how that all starts to play itself out."
In Aaronson and Kristensen, it is clear that Leeds have brought in two players who fit the profiles of the style of football Marsch would prefer the team to play. Both have played for Marsch before at Salzburg and continued to play in a similar style under Matthias Jaissle after Marsch moved on.
Notably, Marsch has mentioned looking ahead as he mentioned 'where we want to be in a year, where we want to be in two years', and it seems Leeds are thinking about bringing the average age of the squad down in this window, as Aaronson has joined as a 21-year-old, whilst Kristensen is 24 and Roca is 25.
Also, the American mentioned evaluation the current squad's 'adaptation' into his methods. Whilst there aren't many noises coming out of the club around players they are keen to move on at this stage, there may be some players deemed surplus to requirements, due to not being deemed a natural fit for the way Marsch and Orta want to move the squad forwards.
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