Leeds United will not want Patrick Bamford wages on books ahead of January
Leeds United will not want someone with wages like Patrick Bamford sitting around on the bench ahead of January, Dan Plumley has said.
The England international is currently on £30,000-a-week at Elland Road [Football League Paper], but is yet to start a single Championship game this season, struggling to get off the bench.
With interest growing ahead of January, the football finance expert admitted that the Whites could hold those wages easier as a Premier League club.
“In any context, it is,” Plumley exclusively told MOT Leeds News.
“It’s a Premier League wage and we know that is a hangover from when they were in the Premier League.
“You don’t want that kind of wage bill sitting on your bench for too long, you would imagine, even if you are Leeds United.
“It will be interesting to see what they do in January more generally, and a lot of that will depend on promotion or not.
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“It becomes a different conversation in the summer if he is still there and they are promoted and he has a role to play because then the revenue will increase back up and you can hold those wages a little bit more than you can in the Championship.
“I think that’s the next big decision, him and the wider squad in January and where does that fall in May? If Leeds are a Premier League club again, it becomes a different conversation.”
With Joel Piroe and Mateo Joseph ahead of him in the pecking order, Bamford didn’t even get off the bench in the 4-0 win over Oxford United on 21 December.
Daniel Farke will want to keep his squad together ahead of the busy Christmas and January period, but his resolve could be tested, only time will tell.
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