Danny Mills explains where Leeds need to strengthen this summer

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Ex-Leeds United defender Danny Mills has claimed his former side need to strengthen over the summer to launch another promotion bid next season.

The Whites finished third in the league this season, before losing to Derby County in the play-off semi-finals.

They looked a real eye-catching team under Argentinian boss Marcelo Bielsa, who will be at Elland Road for another year in the next campaign.

Mills has claimed that the Yorkshire giants will need to improve during the summer transfer window, with a new goalkeeper and also a centre-forward identified as places to possibly upgrade.

Kiko Casilla ended the season as the number one goalkeeper, but some high-profile errors have unfortunately been a part of his game and the same could be said for young understudy Bailey Peacock-Farrell.

Meanwhile, Kemar Roofe and Patrick Bamford are two solid strikers, but both had injury problems throughout the year.

“You’ve got to add two or three quality players. Clearly one of those would be a goalscorer. Goalkeeper might need one of those as well. They are not a million miles away,” Mills told talkSPORT.

TBR’s View:

Leeds couldn’t quite get over the line for promotion this season, but they should be right in the mix next year with Bielsa once again at the helm.

A couple of high-profile additions to the team should catapult them to automatic promotion if they have a similar campaign.

Injuries to Roofe and Bamford during the season didn’t help the promotion bid, with both capable of being prolific goalscorers in the Championship.

But another striker to beef up competition would be wise, while the situation with the goalkeeper is an intriguing one too.