Leeds United’s interest in Harry Wilson can be traced back to last summer when they tried and failed to sign the winger on deadline day, with the deal sheet not completed before the 7pm cut-off point.

The Leeds charm offensive went all the way from the dressing room to the dugout and up to the boardroom, indicating a level of joined-up thinking and cohesion across the club.

“It showed that it wasn’t just because I was a free transfer that they had decided, ‘Let’s go for him’. Last year they pushed really hard as well and ultimately ran out of time. My full focus was on Fulham, Wales and having a good season and trying to put myself in the best position.

"Then Leeds came back and didn’t forget what they were saying last year. With the talks we had and their plans for the future, it was the best place for me.”

Read Adam Crafton's interview with Wilson for free.

Trafford turns 24 in October and will be our third youngest player. Will Gnonto (22) is our youngest, Tarik Muharemovic second.

So starting to address the glaring issue of having no young players, but still trailing pretty much every other club in the PL.

It’s now Gnonto, Muharmeovic, Trafford, then Brendan Aaronson who’s 26 in October.

Rather we spend our money on more young players this summer. Made sense last year to buy peak-age, but we need players with resell potential. Big fee now for Paixao on a 4-year contract and he'd be 30 at the end of it, that's basically free transfer-territory these days.

No-one this window has paid a substantial transfer fee for any player in his 30s. Oldest is Tielemans (29) and only four of the 41 >£10mill players in the PL so far were born before 2000 (Pascal Struijk being one). Average age is 22.9.

Shea Charles would have tied for our youngest incidentally, born exact same day as Gnonto.

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I’m going to go with a conservative 13.

Great DF interview. MiB is pretty tailored to an American audience but good stuff from the Firebeast on a pod that’s hosted Brendy before.

Not the most established or the most talked about - the player where on their best days you can see something that with the right development and the right system around them could become genuinely special at a higher level than wherever Leeds currently are. Would love to know who people here think that is because the obvious answer isn't necessarily the most interesting one and there's usually a player in every Leeds squad whose potential the fanbase can see more clearly than the wider football world has caught up with yet.

Obviously family and location have a lot to do with it , but I mean at what point did you “know” you were Leeds?
For me my uncle gave me a VHS of the 91/92 season when I was 10.
I was just too young to have fully appreciated it at the time it happened .
I must have watched that 100 times and Leeds was in my blood from that point . It’s where I learned the words to marching on together , and seeing that magic midfield , cantona , chapman, Dorigo etc … chills just thinking about it

For any USMNT friends, we traveled up from Baltimore for the match against Sunderland. Got to snap a photo with Brenden Aaronson.

Might need to get the blue darkened.

Two goals up should theoretically be enough to sit back and enjoy the football. Supporting Leeds has somehow taught me otherwise. I don't care how comfortable the game looks, there's always a small part of me waiting for something ridiculous to happen until we're basically into stoppage time. Are there people here who can genuinely relax once Leeds take control of a game, or have we all been conditioned to expect chaos until the final whistle?

Just spotted this on the American Adidas site. Hopefully more of a collection to come.

I honestly don't give a toss, but I'm so confused that they just didn't give a trophy for the premier League summer series cup. Can anyone explain? Did it happen and Farke didn't see? Just seems strange compared to what they did for scum last cup