What Leeds United will do with the players they have loaned out if they are promoted this season

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Following both Luke Ayling and Darko Gyabi’s moves this week, Leeds United now have 11 players out on loan.

Ayling brought an end to his seven-and-a-half-year spell at Elland Road on Wednesday night as he joined Middlesbrough until the end of the season. He is out of contract in the summer, and won’t be returning.

Gyabi, meanwhile, has been handed the opportunity to go and play regular football at Plymouth Argyle, having failed to break through at Leeds, as had been anticipated.

However, it is perhaps the large contingent of last season’s first team squad out on loan that is a bigger concern for Leeds. There had been eight of them, until Robin Koch became the first to officially seal a permanent exit earlier this week.

There has been talk of Brenden Aaronson potentially returning to the club early this month, but according to the Daily Mail, the majority, if not all, will leave in the summer, regardless of what division Leeds are in.

Leeds loanees to leave in the summer

It is said that if Leeds were to remain in the Championship, then many of them have clauses in their contract that would enable them to leave on loan once again.

However, if Leeds return to the Premier League, Daniel Farke would be keen to replace the majority of them, meaning they would be sold permanently.

Of that group of players, Diego Llorente, and Marc Roca look the most guaranteed to exit permanently. PSG hold a shock interest in signing the former as early as this month, while Real Betis are keen on extending the latter’s stay beyond his initial season-long-loan.

Max Wober, meanwhile, is wanted on a permanent deal by Borussia Monchengladbach, providing an agreement on a fee can be reached. Both Rasmus Kristensen and Brenden Aaronson, though, have struggled out on loan, and face uncertain futures.

That leaves just Jack Harrison and Luis Sinisterra. Everton want to sign the former permanently, but whether that happens will be down to whether they can afford it.

Bournemouth do have an option to buy Sinisterra that becomes active if Leeds fail to get promoted. However, it would be interesting to see whether Leeds try to keep him if they get to the Premier League, as he is a top player, but left in controversial circumstances.