Leeds United boss Jesse Marsch's pre-Southampton press conference on team news, Kalvin Phillips, Raphinha, FC Barcelona and Joe Gelhardt

“I have been here for four weeks and I am getting to know the personalities of everyone here.

“Patrick is an energetic, positive person and so I think that was maybe part of the disappointment as he was so committed to getting himself playing again and helping the team that when he felt that it wasn’t right, it was really difficult for him to handle.

“But almost the next day he was already positive again and thinking about what we can do to still find a way to get him back healthy and still thinking about how he can contribute into this season.

“Obviously he wants to give himself a chance to compete for a position in a World Cup team so I think in every way we want to make sure that we get him back to being at 100 per cent and we believe we can now.”

“At the end of the Norwich game, at the end of the first half of the Norwich game he kind of looked like that, he just looked like he wasn’t able to plant his foot like normal and be powerful and that was why we made the decision to take him off then. And then obviously right when the injury happened and before the injury even happened in the match against Wolves I was already trying to get him off the pitch because I could see he wasn’t right. Again, trying to get the balance right with that injury is not easy and it’s not a normal tissue, it’s a very dense tissue that is not easy to manage and sometimes it’s about fighting the pain but other times it’s about recognising the pain.”

“We wish we had Patrick at 100 per cent, for sure, because I like the way he plays and I like his personality on the pitch, it brings something to us.

“In general, I thought even coming here at this moment or four weeks ago in general was an opportunity, not just from a results perspective, but as we’re building into the transfer window, for me to know more about the roster and the players so that I can have more input to help make decisions on what we need to do for the future.

“That’s where we’re at right now in evaluating the entire attacking situation without Patrick - it’s a chance, it’s an opportunity for me to get to know Joffy more and Sam Greenwood and some of our young players and then to invest in them and their development.

“How much we need to alter? I don’t think we need to alter too much because I still think we have a really good group of options that have flexibility so even some days when I some days when I look at the board and think about training and where do I put Sam Greenwood well, sometimes I put them in the 9, sometimes a central 10, sometimes a wide 10, how do I think about Raphinha in different moments and I like that, I like when we can have flexibility with players so that we can tactically alter match plans so we’re not totally to that level of sophistication yet, we have a lot to go in order to to get us where I want us to be but certainly the group has flexibility and quality.”