Coming off the back of a decent 2016/17 season Leeds United fans will have been hopeful of a successful 2017/18 campaign and maybe even to achieve promotion. 

Garry Monk led the Whites to the cusp of the Championship play-off places, finishing in an agonising seventh place and just five points behind sixth-placed Fulham.

The challenge for Monk now was to tweak his squad just enough to break into promotion contention but not too much as to disrupt what he has already built.

But the former Swansea City boss decided to leave the club before the transfer window even got underway, leaving things to incumbent Thomas Christiansen.

The Spaniard decided, perhaps foolishly, to shake things up, bringing in 16 new faces.

One of those was a new goalkeeper to challenge Rob Green.

This FLW Rewind where we take a look back at a big decision made by a club, analyse the initial reaction and document what happened next.

German shot-stopper Felix Wiedwald was the man to arrive at Elland Road, moving from Werder Bremen for £450,000. 

There was plenty of excitement amongst the fans at the arrival of the highly rated 27-year-old with hopes high that they finally had some solid competition for Green:

But if these fans had looked a bit closer at his record, they might have clocked that Wiedwald would not turn out to be as good an acquisition as they hoped.

During his previous season with Bremen, he played 25 times but managed to concede a whopping 49 goals.

Christiansen still showed a lot of faith in him, making him the club's first choice goalkeeper and it looked like an inspired decision in the early stages.

In the first seven matches of the season, he kept six clean sheets, more than he kept in the entirety of his previous campaign with Bremen.

But after that, the apparent 'real Wiedwald' began to rear his head as sloppy errors and unconvincing displays began to creep into his game.

Paul Heckingbottom arrived in February after a poor run of form saw Christiansen sacked but continued to give the German a chance.

But by the start of March patience had been lost and Wiedwald was dropped, never to play for the club again.