da cassino online： Leeds United have won both of their opening matches of the season against Bolton Wanderers and Port Vale – in the Championship and Carabao Cup respectively – as new manager Thomas Christiansen looks to lead the club back to the Premier League for the first time since 2004.
da brdice： A 3-2 win against the Trotters was the ideal start to their league campaign while Samu Saiz – one of many summer arrivals – scored an impressive hat-trick against Port Vale at Elland Road on Wednesday night.
Christiansen has brought 10 players – including Vurnon Anita, Ezgjan Alioski and Pontus Jansson on a permanent deal – to the club this summer already with promotion the aim.
However, with those new faces comes even more competition for places and inevitably it could mean that some individuals will be moved on as they are deemed surplus to requirements.
Here are three first-team players Leeds need to offload before the end of the month…
Hadi Sacko
Of course, Leeds only signed Sacko on a permanent deal from Sporting Lisbon following a relatively successful loan spell at Elland Road last season, so we are not saying they should already sell him.
However, the 23-year-old may benefit from a loan move away in order to find some consistency with the winger coming under criticism from supporters following their 4-1 win against Port Vale on Wednesday night.
The winger struggled to make an impact against the League Two outfit and there were even some jeers from the home crowd when he was replaced in the 57th minute.
Christiansen already has the likes of Saiz, Aliosko, Kemar Roofe, Stuart Dallas and Pablo Hernandez that can play wide if needs be, and the Spanish manager may decide to loan the Frenchman out.
Toumani Diagouraga
Leeds supporters may have expected big things from the midfielder when he joined the club from Brentford in 2015, but he has struggled to make an impression at Elland Road.
In his first season with the Yorkshire outfit, the Frenchman failed to hold down a regular spot in the starting line-up and ended the campaign having made just 19 appearances in all competitions, scoring two goals.
If the 30-year-old defensive midfielder was hoping for a fresh start under Garry Monk last term he was sadly mistaken, and he made just one appearance for the Whites on the opening day before being loaned out to Ipswich Town in the second-half of the campaign.
Having failed to be a part of their pre-season or early season fixtures, Diagouraga is almost certain leave before the end of this month.
Souleymane Doukara
Like Antonsson, Doukara failed to make the matchday squad for either of the matches against Bolton and Port Vale in the last week and it seems likely that Leeds will look to offload him before the transfer window slams shut at the end of this month.
The 25-year-old – who can play as a centre-forward or out wide – was far from prolific last season as he scored just six goals in 34 Championship appearances, but he was another that found regular first-team minutes hard to come by because of the fine form of Wood.
The attacker faces even more competition following the Yorkshire outfit’s summer business and they could look to cash in on him in the next couple of weeks.
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