Starved of news from Elland Road in the vacuum of an international break, the Leeds United agenda clings to the fallout from Wearside: free agent midfielders and Illan Meslier’s position. The Whites are assessing unattached midfielders looking for work, but Daniel Farke’s high bar for a contract may leave them searching for a unicorn.

Leeds United have decided against giving a knee-jerk reaction to offloading Illan Meslier following the Frenchman’s shocking individual error against Sunderland recently.The 24-year-old goalkeeper

Leeds, Leeds are falling apart again… Daniel Farke’s side had the game won, a streetwise smash-and-grab on the road that would move them level on points with Sunderland at the top of the table and then disaster struck.

A costly mistake from Meslier gifted the Black Cats an equaliser in the dying seconds of stoppage time as Alan Browne’s attempted cross brushed off Junior Firpo’s head and the ball bounced past the goalkeeper as he tried to collect it.

The 24-year-old was spotted smiling after full-time with Sunderland manager Regis Le Bris, who coached the goalkeeper in Lorient’s academy in his native France, but was said to be reduced almost to tears when consolidating with his team after making his way through the tunnel. Here is what has been said about Meslier’s cataclysmic error:

Jeff Stelling has called out Leeds United players for making minimal effort to console Illan Meslier after his error against Sunderland.

Pascal Struijk has attempted to explain Illan Meslier’s jaw-dropping stoppage time error that gifted Sunderland a 2-2 draw against Leeds United on Friday night.The Whites came from a goal down to