Leeds United has a good season but they have not been able to stay on the top. However, it is not actually bad result for them in their first season in Premier League. With the experienced coach (Bielsa) and the young squad, they can improve very much in next seasons.
The problem for Leeds United is prevent transfers of their key players. It happens for every small team when after one or two impressive seasons, they have bleeding transfers and lose key players to top clubs. After that they fail to replace them with other players and results fall down. Delegations are consequence of bleeding transfers.
About Bramford, it is a discovery of Premier League this year. He had some impressive matches in early of this season but how far he has gone so far is more impressive. We talk too much about Son Heung Min (Tottenham) but please see Bramford scores more goals than Son in Premier League. He plays for Leeds United, a much smaller team if you compares it with Tottenham. Only 3 goals less than Harry Kane.
https://www.premierleague.com/stats/top/players/goals?se=363That's what I was saying, Patrick plays in a very attacking team and scored a decent amount of goals. I am not talking about if Leeds will be great this year or next year or whatever year after, that is not what I was talking about, they could be doing great or terrible in few years. However I think he could be the top scorer at the end of the season if they keep playing this way.
Leeds have many players that they will fail to keep, Patrick, Rafinha, Dallas, Phillips, and many alike, they are not really doing that amazing if you ask me by not making a profit enough to cover that difference because it is a covid ridden season so the payments will not be high, and other teams at the top are still losing money but they are so rich that that they will be capable of paying no matter what. This is why I think it is quite clear that we will have to sell some players to keep afloat financially.