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While they may have only recently secured key players such as Kalvin Phillips, Liam Cooper and Stuart Dallas to long-term contracts at Elland Road, it seems that recent comments made by Leeds United CEO Angus Kinnear mean that the club are still set to be in for a long and nervous January transfer window.

Speaking recently on the Talking Shutt podcast, Kinnear revealed that a number of the club's loanees, including defender Ben White and striker Eddie Nketiah have January recall clauses in their contract with the club.

Having joined on-loan until the end of the season from Brighton and Arsenal respectively during the summer, Leeds will be desperate to ensure that both White and Nketiah see out the entirety of those deals, in order to give them the best possible chance of finally securing that long-awaited return to the Premier League.

While the unpredictability around injuries, form and suspensions in football mean that there can be no certainty one way or another whether the Premier League duo will be tempted to recall their respective players, you feel that Arsenal at least, should be more than happy to leave Nketiah where he is.

Although he has yet to start a Championship game for Leeds this season, Nketiah is already starting to make his presence felt in English football's second tier.

So far this season, Nketiah has already come off the bench four times in the league for Marcelo Bielsa's side, twice making crucial contributions by finding the net to turn draws into wins for the club. Those interventions have already secured the club four extra points, that could make all the difference when it comes to deciding who claims a spot in the promised land of the Premier League come the end of the season.

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That Nketiah is making that sort of impact will surely have some sway in convincing Arsenal to allow him to remain at the club until the very end of the season.

Right now, with the likes of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Alexandre Lacazette and summer signing Nicolas Pepe just a handful of names that Arsenal have to call upon in attack, it doesn't seem as though the Gunners will need Nketiah any time soon, and the role he is currently playing in at Leeds could make him an even more valuable asset to Unai Emery's side when he returns to the Emirates Stadium.

With Nketiah establishing himself as the so-called 'super-sub' at Leeds, you feel that having him to call upon to play that role for Arsenal - who often seem to find himself in difficult situations late in games these days - would potentially make him a welcome source of inspiration for Emery to turn to.

It seems therefore, that keeping Nketiah at Elland Road all season could help Arsenal in the long term in that sense.

There can be no denying that Arsenal's ultimate aim as football club has to be to win trophies, so allowing Nketiah to remain at a Leeds side expected to compete for promotion throughout the campaign does seem to make sense, since it will allow him to develop the mindset needed to cope with the pressure of being the go-to man for a club who have so much at stake, and that feeling of disappointment at the lack of game time for the striker, may soon become something of a sense of relief.