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Leeds United summer exits have been announced - and the club’s likely best XI and bench has a very different look to it from the one that finished the title-winning Championship campaign.
Leeds are heading back to the Premier League as Championship champions and the club submitted its retained list last weekend ahead of the new 2025-26 campaign.
Stand out news featured conformation that last season’s loan stars Manor Solomon and Joe Rothwell had returned to their parent clubs of Tottenham Hotspur and Bournemouth respectively.
Leeds also announced that midfielder Josuha Guilavogui would be leaving the club upon his contract expiring but that discussions were ongoing with Junior Firpo and Sam Byram - both of whom are out of contract this summer.
As such, the pair remain very much in the mix for a best XI and bench - unlike Solomon, Rothwell and Guilavogui - plus the young players leaving the club.
It all means a rather different likely best XI and bench - an idea of which we look at here.
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19. Sub: Mateo Joseph
Another forward option within the ranks and still a young one at 21 years of age. | Gary Oakley/PA Wire
20. Sub: Harry Gray
Josuha Guilavogui's exit effectively opens up a place on the bench - one for which young midfielder Sam Chambers might benefit from - or possibly young defender James Debayo. But whilst it makes the bench a bit forwards heavy, there's no doubt the regard that rapidly rising 16-year-old star Gray is held in and he very much has his eyes on the Prem. | Getty Images