Mallik Wilks and Aapo Halme will want to prove a point to Marcelo Bielsa this weekend

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Leeds United get back to Championship football at the weekend with a trip to Yorkshire rivals Barnsley at Oakwell. The Whites will be hoping to get back to winning ways after their recent loss to Swansea City. As for Barnsley, they will have two players hoping to prove a point to Marcelo Bielsa. 

At the start of the summer, many would have felt Mallik Wilks and Aapo Halme would have a role to play at Leeds in 2019-20. 

Wilks was coming off the back of an excellent loan spell at Doncaster Rovers whilst Finland youth international Halme had played a role in the first-team throughout the 2018-19 campaign.

 However, that was not the case. Marcelo Bielsa saw no room for either player in the first-team going forward. 

Wilks was sold to Barnsley in a deal reportedly (Yorkshire Post) worth around £900,000. The player himself took to his own Twitter account after the move to state he felt he had earned a chance at Leeds. 

Halme appeared to have lost the faith of Bielsa toward the end of last season. Pascal Struijk overtook him as the auxiliary option from the under-23s at centre-back. Halme’s last appearance in the Leeds first-team saw him hauled off at half-time against QPR in an FA Cup defeat in January, a game in which he scored. What many assumed was going to be a loan move transpired to be permanent when Halme became a Tyke in July. 

Both are now regulars in the Barnsley matchday system and will be hoping to prove a point to Bielsa and Leeds this weekend.