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Leeds United look set to lose another centre-back this summer. Pascal Struijk left the Whites to join Brighton, but was quickly replaced by Tarik Muharemovic. Sebastiaan Bornauw has been linked with a loan move to Hamburg recently, and it looks as if the Belgian will follow Struijk out the door. Naturally, Bornauw will need to be replaced. But the 49ers cannot afford to make the same mistake they did with Bornauw with his potential replacement. Nico Elvedi could be Leeds United’s Sebastiaan Bornauw replacement Earlier in the summer, Nico Elvedi was linked with a move to West Yorkshire. At the time, it didn’t make sense, as we already had a plethora of right-footed centre-backs. If we were going to bring someone in, you’d have imagined that they’d be left-footed. But with Bornauw on the brink of leaving in a mind-boggling deal, this has changed everything. According to The Guardian, Elvedi, who has just one year left on his Borussia Monchengladbach contract, could be United’s next signing. According to Transfermarkt, the 29-year-old is valued at around £6.8million. This means any deal we do for the Swiss international would likely be a cheap one. But if we do sign Elvedi, we cannot afford to make the same mistake we did with Bornauw. 49ers must learn from the Sebastiaan Bornauw saga If Elvedi is brought in, he, like Bornauw, will likely be behind Jaka Bijol, Joe Rodon and Muharemovic in the pecking order. He will likely only start cup games, or in the league if one of the three aforementioned players gets injured. Of course, he can play his way into the side if one of the other three is out of form. But we already know how hard players can find it to break into the team under Daniel Farke. Elvedi has to know he is coming in to play this role. As in a year, we won’t want to be hearing about Elvedi wanting to leave, likely in search of more game time, like Bornauw. We cannot keep chopping and changing our squad players every summer. There’s far more important business we need to be focused on conducting if we want to climb up the Premier League table.