Farke: Quality, experience and physicality are key in signings

Physicality is at the heart of Leeds United's summer transfer business but Daniel Farke insists there are other, more important factors at play.

- by Graham Smyth

Anton Stach's €20m move from Hoffenheim made it six senior signings through the door already this summer. Five of them - Stach, Lukas Nmecha, Sebastiaan Bornauw, Gabriel Gudmundsson and Jaka Bijol - are 26 years years old. Sean Longstaff is the old man of the new boys, at 27.

Stach and Bijol are both 6ft 4ins. Bornauw and Nmecha aren't that much smaller. Internally at Leeds the joke has been that their recruitment filters have got stuck on 26 and 6ft-plus.