How will Leeds' recruitment team changes affect transfer business?

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00:00I've seen some concern that fans are going, are we now going to be short-changed?

00:11Are we not going to have the requisite people in charge?

00:14I don't think that is the case.

00:15I think the 49ers are very satisfied with the current apparatus that's there.

00:23And some very important players have actually remained in post.

00:27Yeah.

00:28And also the point you need to make about January is that plans might already be in

00:31place that both Steinson and Myles were involved in, but Nick Hammond's still

00:38there, still very much noses onions when it comes to transfers.

00:42Adam Underwood is the interesting, probably the most interesting part of it

00:45really, because I mean, Alex Davies has been around in the recruitment setup for

00:49a while now.

00:50He was one of the lead scouts and he's simply taken on more responsibility and

00:55a beefed up role, isn't he, by becoming head of recruitment.

00:58But Adam Underwood has been kind of, I suppose, the Angus Kinnair of Thor

01:05Bartsch in terms of running the academy and running the football operations.

01:10And he's kind of steadily grown more and more into a role that's encompassing the

01:15seniors, the senior side of things.

01:17He was around in Germany, for example, in the summer.

01:21And I did ask him, you know, what kind of involvement do you take in transfers?

01:26And at that point, it was more he might come in towards the back end of transfers

01:31in terms of getting the business finished and stuff.

01:34So that'll be an interesting one in terms of how much responsibility and what kind

01:40of role he takes in player trading that he's overseeing in terms of decisions.

01:45You know, where does he now sit?

01:47But as for January, I don't see it, I don't see the changes becoming hugely

01:54apparent in terms of a January fingerprint.

01:57I think it would be more the summer.