In a Shots TV exclusive, club writers covering the Championship's automatic promotion chasers Leeds United, Sheffield United, Burnley and Sunderland offer their expert insights on the upcoming January window and how they believe the season will pan out come May.
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00:00Sorry, I was just laughing there to myself when you were talking about Leeds being one of the smallest squads in the division and watching the game last night, the subs they brought on after 70 minutes and thinking,
00:09yeah, it's not bad, is it? Yeah, you're right. The squad is very light on experience. The bench, last couple of games, has had five youngsters on there. And when we're talking youngsters, we don't mean, you know, under-21s players.
00:20There was a 17-year-old lad who barely played for the 21s there on whatever day it was, Sunday. Losing track of days there over the Christmas period.
00:29But, yeah, it's a very, very light group. It was light in the summer. After the whole takeover saga that overshadowed the summer, you know, Chris Wilder wanted more players in before the summer deadline.
00:42He didn't quite, you know, get what he wanted in terms of the two loan spots that were left. And they're the minimum, really, that's needed going into January.
00:53The squad, for me, is running on fumes completely. You know, the last two results that you mentioned there were possibly unexpected in terms of the overall season, but just the way that it's been going in the last couple of weeks.