Daniel Wales and Lee Sobot discuss Leeds United’s current injury situation.
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00:00If we do look at the injuries, obviously you mentioned there Logie Ramazani, and then you
00:09mentioned Ilya Gruev, Ethan Ampadu, three, let's be honest, big players from this season,
00:16especially Ramazani, given what he's shown so far. And to lose them, well, at least Ramazani's
00:21not for a prolonged period of time compared to the other two, but it's not great, is it?
00:25I know it's shown the depth that Leeds have by Tanaka coming in, by Rothwell coming in,
00:31even Dan James has done quite well as well, but it's not ideal, is it?
00:36No, I mean, that's three starters, isn't it, basically there? And obviously with Thurper
00:40obviously still being suspended for another two games after his three-game ban for his
00:43headbutt at Millwall, that's a fourth starter. So basically, at least for the next two games anyway,
00:47you've got four starters out, haven't you? I mean, that's more than a third of your team.
00:52So it's a big deal, realistically, which is why, as I say, why you shouldn't sort of
00:56belittle really how well they have done and to get where they have done with those injuries.
01:00But yeah, obviously it goes about saying the sooner they're back, the better. Ramazani is
01:06going to be the interesting one. And we should say, we're speaking here, like crossing everything
01:11because we're speaking here ahead of, before the second batch of internationals and the
01:14November international break. I think Leeds have got, I think it's 11 players in action
01:17on the Tuesday. So you sort of cross everything for that because, I mean, it's unlikely that you
01:22get through an international break unscathed. And I think there were an awful lot of fears when
01:27Joe Roden went down for Wales at the weekend. Really, really bad clash of heads with Harris
01:35and stayed down for a while, which is unlike him. And I kind of thought then,
01:38that's not looking too good, is it? But he's a sort of right Trojan, isn't he? Just carried on
01:43all bandaged up and stuff. And great news that he said afterwards that he was basically okay.
01:48He was used to it in the championship and that you get these things every other week. So it
01:52sounds like he's all right, which is massive because obviously he's one of the last players
01:54you want to lose. So yeah, hopefully all fine on that front. But yeah, in terms of the other ones,
01:59as we sit here at the moment, Ramazani is going to be the sort of top news, I think, in terms of
02:04when we come back to action, like as in when he's going to be back. Ankle injury against Watford,
02:09what was that? October the 22nd. And that was said to be facing up to six weeks out.
02:16You always wonder with those ones when they say up to six weeks,
02:18what they actually mean and whether that's just sort of a best case scenario.
02:22Exactly, exactly. But I mean, even if it's up to six weeks and six weeks is worst case scenario,
02:27then even that's December the 3rd or there or thereabouts, which is like around about the
02:32Leeds v Derby game. So you wonder whether he might be back for that, which is, I think,
02:36four more games to that. So obviously you've got the three games coming up when they return,
02:40when it's three games within a week. So you would hope, like young lad obviously seems to have a
02:46pretty decent injury record, probably be quite good at recovering, I would think, from knocks
02:51and stuff. I don't know, it's hard to tell. But you would hope and think that he would be back
02:56fairly soon.