Ezgjan Alioski appears set to make his first Premier League start in Leeds' home game against Manchester City on Saturday.
Leeds boss Marcelo Bielsa gave the broadest of hints that the North Macedonia international will replace Jack Harrison, who is ineligible to face his parent club.
Harrison has played a starring role for Bielsa's side in their first three Premier League matches after City agreed in July that the 23-year-old could start his third season-long loan at Elland Road.
'When a player comes out of the XI and another player comes in and you have to give an opinion on this, we have to mix a lot of common places,' Bielsa said.