With eight games left in the Championship season, Leeds has a lot of loose ends to tie up before the summer window opens. These can be contracts or players who may depart once their loans expire.
Some players, including Luke Ayling and Robin Koch, have already finalised their departures, while the situation with other players is still unclear. Several players have contracts that expire in the summer.
Luke Ayling, who is spending the last few months of his Leeds contract on loan at Middlesbrough, has already received an emotional send-off from Leeds, but there may be more to come.
Along with a few others, Liam Cooper and Stuart Dallas, two additional promotion heroes, have deals that are about to expire:
Dallas and Byram set to leave this summer – Report
There are some tough decisions to make at Leeds:
It’s hard at the moment to really decide on who should stay, as these players have given so much to the club in the past, and deserve the best send off.
If we were able to clinch promotion and give them the perfect farewell with a trophy at Elland Road, then that might be the best way to end their stay here.
Byram has been brilliant for us this season after trying to wrestle with hamstring trouble, while Dallas has been an outstanding servant to the club, even through his injured period in recent months.
As the end of the season approaches, Leeds will have to make some difficult decisions about the future of these players, balancing sentimentality with practicality in their squad planning.