Inside Elland Road podcast - Should Luke Ayling leave Elland Rd this month? - video Dailymotion

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YEP chief football writer Graham Smyth and Leeds United journalist Joe Donnohue discuss the possibility - and potentials pitfalls - of veteran defender Luke Ayling leaving Elland Road this month.

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00:00 This is my concern about if Ayling was to leave.

00:03 Do they have the right voices and the right leadership in the changing room

00:09 if you were to lose an Ayling? Yeah, you've still got Cooper

00:12 and Dallas is still around the squad but in terms of players who are

00:15 in the matchday squad, in the dressing room,

00:19 kind of in the trenches when things are going wrong and have been through it

00:22 in the championship, have been through heartache

00:25 in the championship with a promotion race and they've been through success

00:29 and they've played in the premier league and they've played a lot of games in the

00:31 EFL. There's not many. My counterpoint to

00:36 that would be is that enough to keep someone around?

00:39 From a selfish, if you're going to be selfish as a club

00:43 then yes. I think it's definitely a consideration

00:46 that should be had or discussed by Leeds before

00:51 giving the green light to anything when it comes to their veteran players.

00:54 It is a young squad isn't it? That's just my only concern and it's not like a

00:58 concern that would make me think 'oh yeah, you cannot let that move up'

01:01 and it's just a concern that do they have enough in the way of

01:06 leadership?

Inside Elland Road podcast - Should Luke Ayling leave Elland Rd this month?

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