Leeds United need January transfers, fresh mindset for West Ham United and all of Marcelo Bielsa's experience - Tony Dorigo

When you sit down and look at just how many are out and add the players who could be out for this game, it brings into sharper focus what we all want to see in this transfer window: new bodies coming in. I’m sure the club are doing everything they can on that front.

In transfer windows you buy players who improve the team, that’s where you spend your money but in this window we’re talking about bodies coming in to improve the squad. That’s what we need.

It’s a tough period so the need appears greater, yet there is a lot to consider including the finances of any deal and who we can get at the right price.

Victor Orta will be working extremely hard to get things right, but other clubs will be doing exactly the same thing.

In the meantime, there’s the difficult task of beating West Ham United, at the second time of asking inside seven days.

Going down there last Sunday in the situation we’re in was always going to be difficult, it was always about where our priorities lie and it was obvious a few lads - three as it turned out - would come in and get a taste of first team football.

The main decision, the VAR talking point, was offside. In my day wrong decisions happened rather a lot but you had to feel for the referees. Now they have technology, video and time to go and look at these things but there’s still a human element to it which means mistakes can be made.

Years ago, a manager said to me ‘if you’re not interfering with play then get off the pitch’ and Bowen was sprinting towards the ball. Players have to know where everyone else is on the pitch, you develop this peripheral vision and there’s no doubt he knew Bowen was coming across attempting to get the ball.

It’s got nothing to do with whether Bowen touched it or not, it’s his movements. It’s hugely frustrating and you hope that over the course of a season it evens itself out - but sometimes you feel it’s been going against you a bit much.

The danger is that you can lose your head and make the issue much bigger, so it was important that the lads just got on with the game. You can talk to the referees all you want without changing their mind, so you’ve got to crack on, as easy as that is to say. I thought the players did that well.

In any case, looking at the whole 90 minutes I’d say we didn’t deserve to win that game. West Ham were mainly in control, but there was some good potential, at least.

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