Leeds United conclude their season with the most expensive game in football against Southampton on Sunday.
The two sides will go head-to-head in the Championship play-off final as they look to secure the final place in next season’s Premier League.
Irrespective of the outcome at the weekend, Leeds are set to be in for a busy summer with decisions to be made on a number of loanees, incoming and outgoing.
Leeds are hopeful Jack Harrison, Marc Roca, Max Wober and Diego Llorente can be sold, though it has already been confirmed Brenden Aaronson will be returning from Union Berlin.
Joe Rodon, Connor Roberts and Jaidon Anthony are the three players currently on loan at Leeds, and aside from the latter, their futures are still unclear.
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Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola has already confirmed on two separate occasions that Anthony will be returning to the South Coast at the end of the season.
Anthony has started just two league matches since his loan move and so Sunday’s play-off final looks set to be the final time he will don the white shirt.
Leeds, meanwhile, are desperate to secure the permanent signature of Rodon this summer but that could well depend on whether they win promotion.
A return to the Premier League would make it a near certainty, though due to the stricter regulations on PSR in the EFL, it remains to be seen if it can still be facilitated if they remain a Championship club.
And finally, it would appear a decision has now been made on the future of Roberts. Burnley released their retained list earlier today and confirmed he would be returning to Turf Moor at the end of the season.
Burnley have just been relegated from the Premier League and so will need to build a squad capable of a promotion push. Roberts clearly fits that bill, having won promotion with them last season.
This will not have any impact on Roberts’ involvement in Sunday’s play-off final, with the Yorkshire Evening Post reporting he will be in the squad.
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Roberts has started just two league matches since his deadline day loan move in January, but has managed to have an impact in the brief time he’s had at Elland Road.
Rodon believes the 28-year-old quickly became a big part of the dressing room, while his equaliser against Leicester was crucial to that three points.
Though his lack of game time may have changed this view, Roberts did hint after his loan arrival that he would like to stay permanently.
He said: “Football’s a funny game, so I’ll be doing my very best to make a good impression on and off the pitch and maybe in the future it can change from the straight loan but yeah, at the moment it’s just come here try and help on and off the pitch.”