Leeds want to sign Ipswich star Ben Johnson after Portman Road development
Leeds United are already under pressure to rebuild their squad in order to sustain a realistic Premier League challenge.
Daniel Farke and the Leeds board – between whom it remains uncertain whether they will work together next season – watch as Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton all pass them in the opposite direction down to the Championship.
These were the three sides who overcame the Whites this time last year – and Leeds know for all their quality, more Premier League experience is required to establish top-flight football back at Elland Road in the long term.
Farke interested in punt for Ben Johnson
Leeds have already been linked with players of Premier League pedigree ranging from promising unproven youngsters tipped to excel at the top level, to multiple-time title-winners like Raheem Sterling.
The promoted Whites will already be compiling a list of transfer targets, ahead of their effort to secure 100 points and become champions when they visit all-but-relegated Plymouth Argyle down in Devon this Saturday (3 May).
The three relegated sides from the Premier League this season will be sitting tight in preparation to lose some of their best players, including Kieran McKenna’s Ipswich – whose fight was the best mustered by any of the promoted clubs from last season and still weighs in with only 21 points so far.
