As the Championship edges closer its halfway stage, Leeds United have been able to maintain their form and are well placed to continue their promotion charge beyond the New Year.

Marcelo Bielsa’s men are currently second in the division and one point off the top spot after 19 matches.

The Whites are seven points and six places better off than at this stage last season and are on course to eclipse their seventh-place finish from the 2016/17 when under the guidance of Garry Monk.

At the end of that year, United finished one place and three points outside the play-offs, and that has been their closest chance of getting back to the Premier League in recent memory.

But that could all change this season under their Argentine coach, who would surely love a player or two from that side to help push his team over the line at the end of the current campaign.

With that said, we take a look at three players from Monk’s Leeds side that would improve Bielsa’s current crop at Elland Road.

A former loanee and almost a permanent capture for the club in the summer before a move to West Brom, Kyle Bartley would be a reliable addition to this current Leeds side.

And he is a player that could have formed a potentially devastating partnership with Pontus Jansson at the heart of the Whites’ defence.

He has all the attributes to be playing at the top level, and under Bielsa, he could have gone up a gear and is undoubtedly a player from the 2016/17 campaign that would improve the current side.

Leeds’ 30 goal man during the 2016/17 campaign, Chris Wood was in unstoppable form, and that has yet to be replicated since at Elland Road.

The striker almost single-handedly got United on the brink of the play-offs with no other player coming anywhere close to his goal tally.

How Marcelo Bielsa would love to have the New Zealand international in his ranks to add to the goals of Kemar Roofe this season.

If Wood was a part of this Leeds side, you would have to imagine they would be certainties for promotion.

Barry Douglas has been a solid signing since his summer arrival from Wolves, but it would be remiss of Marcelo Bielsa not wish to have former left-back Charlie Taylor still at the club.

The defender earned a move to Premier League side Burnley and has become a mainstay in their side, and he would certainly add another dimension to the current Leeds side.

The 25-year-old would be one of the first names on Bielsa’s team sheet if he were at the club, and could even play inside on the left of a back three to accommodate the attributes of Douglas.