A summer like this has been coming for Leeds United. After consecutive years under Marcelo Bielsa, where changes were at a premium and the football on the pitch was successful, the Whites had no real need for drastic overhauls in transfer windows.
With Bielsa gone and relegation barely kept at bay, this was the obvious time for Kalvin Phillips and Raphinha to spread their wings with moves to clubs offering Champions League football. Each had two years left on their contracts with no prospect of new terms being signed and so Leeds were left striving for the best price they could achieve.
With £100m, give or take, raked in from their sales the screw was turned on Victor Orta and the recruitment department. If Andrea Radrizzani was to get the Leicester City model he wanted, the next phase required successful reinvestment of the big-ticket sales.
