One of the tenets of Marcelo Bielsa's coaching tenure at Leeds United was his insistence on a thin first-team squad of no more than 18 to 20 senior players.
In the opinion of the Argentine, it was suitable for Leeds' 25-man Premier League squad to contain a skeleton crew of first-team bodies, bulked out by several U23 players.
It transpired over the 2021/22 season that even with several injuries to key first-team personnel, Bielsa's reluctance to field those same young players led to the likes of Cody Drameh and Crysencio Summerville requesting loan moves.
