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What’s the state of play at left-back at Leeds United?

Speaking about the Whites’ pursuit of the duo, Jacobs said: “Their two main options in the final days and weeks in the window were Luke Thomas at Leicester – multiple approaches were made but Leicester had no desire to loan to a Championship rival, so he ended up going to Sheffield United.

“And Charlie Taylor at Burnley could have returned to Leeds as well, but there was no appetite on the Burnley part either.

“So Leeds tried, they were quite aggressive in their approach, particularly for Thomas, because they knew the urgency. But, they just couldn’t get that deal over the line.”

Will either Charlie Taylor or Luke Thomas rue not making the move to Leeds United?

Of course, there would have been the chance for him to compete for promotion at Elland Road, but he will want to be operating at the highest level and this is why a switch to South Yorkshire has to be seen as a real positive for him.

Taylor will probably want to seal a return to Elland Road at some point.

But with Burnley only having a limited number of left-back options, Taylor may get the opportunity to play regularly at Turf Moor this term.

If he does, that will be a positive and he would probably choose playing in the top flight over playing for Leeds right now.