Leeds star Kalvin Phillips is “a better midfielder than Granit Xhaka”, says Noel Whelan, while Whites loanee Ben White is another who would “walk into the Arsenal team”.
A number of those currently chasing down promotion out of the Championship at Elland Road have been drawing admiring glances from the Premier League.
Academy graduate Phillips has long been considered a prized asset at Leeds and was tied to a five-year contract in September in an effort to bring transfer talk to a close.
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White, meanwhile, has starred since swapping life at Brighton for that in West Yorkshire on a season-long agreement, with the 22-year-old defender considered to be destined for a big-money move at some stage.