Should Leeds explore the free agent market after Ilia Gruev's injury?

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00:00On the topic of the squad being quite thin then, he was asked at the press conference

00:06this week about the free agent market. Do you think it's something that Leeds should

00:10consider?

00:11Yes, I think they should analyse each and every free agent and consider whether or not

00:18they could at some point this season play a role for Farka. I understand all the arguments

00:27about these players won't have had team training since May, that they'll be without match fitness

00:33and it will take them a long time to get up to speed. I get all of that. But if there's

00:38an opportunity to give yourself a little bit of insurance or a little bit of cover, you've

00:43got to investigate it. You've got to go and look. And I would be stunned if they hadn't

00:48done already all of this. I think maybe now it's just a case of going back over their

00:55work and saying, this guy that we briefly considered or we thought was a 50%er, is

01:04there more in it? Particularly if the Grave News is bad. If the Grave News is bad then

01:08I think you've really got to be getting the magnifying glass out and casting it around

01:16all of the planet just to make sure there's not someone who could come and cover. There's

01:23always a reason, isn't there? There's always a reason why a player is without a club. Maybe

01:28it's that he's a ball bag. Maybe it's that he's asking for way too much money. Maybe

01:35it's that he has an injury history that makes teams think, oh no thanks. Maybe he's been

01:44without form for a season or two and just not done it. He's one of those players on

01:49a spectacular downfall, downward slope. And Farka, like you've pointed out previously,

01:56he likes players on the upward climb towards their peak. So there's lots of reasons why

02:02you perhaps wouldn't do one, but I still think you need to know if it's possible. If there's

02:09one that you think he would actually do a job then you've got to know if there's a way

02:13of pulling it off. Because January still feels quite a way away.

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