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This article is part of Football League World’s ‘Terrace Talk’ series, which provides personal opinions from our FLW Fan Pundits regarding the latest breaking news, teams, players, managers, potential signings and more…

After failing to win promotion, Leeds United are preparing for another season of Championship football.

Farke looks set to stay in charge at Elland Road, and the German faces a big summer as the club look set to face inevitable interest in key players like Crysencio Summerville, Georginio Rutter and Archie Gray.

If the club are able to keep the aforementioned players, they’ll be in a really strong position to win promotion, but Farke has been urged to make a simple change that could help results improve further.

Leeds United boss Daniel Farke urged to make simple Georginio Rutter change

FLW’s Leeds United fan pundit, Kris Smith, believes that Farke should make a change and start playing Georginio Rutter on the wing, instead of as a striker or an attacking midfielder.

“Personally, a change I’d like to see is moving Georginio Rutter out to the wing, preferably to the right, as it’s just going to make his game far simpler, and he could focus far more on his strengths, which is beating his man one versus one.

“Rutter struggled a lot pressing without the ball, and playing with his back to goal. But moving him to the right-wing would mean he’s constantly facing his opponent when we get possession in transition, and it gives him a simpler job when we don’t have the ball.

“He’ll just have to watch his full-back and help out his own full-back.”

Leeds United handed transfer boost by West Ham

Ben Johnson will leave West Ham when his contract expires at the end of the month amid interest from Leeds United.

Kris also believes that an addition to the coaching team could see Leeds become more of a goal threat, and one man in particular could reap the rewards.

He added: “As for coaching itself, I think Farke is absolutely crying out for a set piece coach to make use of Pascal Struijk.

“He could easily break double figures in goals if we actually had set piece routines and a good delivery behind him.”