Leeds United will have to hope their young shot stopper can recover from illness in the coming weeks.

Glandular fever stands between Illan Meslier and playing against Manchester City in the Premier League in late December.

Jesse Marsch, the Leeds coach, is hopeful that Meslier and other injured players will be fit by then.

“Illan: you guys call it glandular fever, we call it mono," said Marsch.

“We're trying to be safe with him, but also measure him appropriately and see.

“It'll be close when we can get him back into training days to a week before Man City.

“Junior Firpo wasn't as bad as we initially thought, so he actually travelled here and he will be close to training next week.

“Patrick Bamford had a successful surgery. We think he'll be ready in about 10 days. Robin [Koch] will be ready to train in the week. Hopefully, Cree's [Crysencio Summerville] not too bad.

“Diego's [Llorente] hand: he had successful surgery and they say two weeks after the surgery he can start participating in training so that shouldn't last too long. For the most part, we should be able to get most of the guys back in training before we play our first match against Man City, maybe even 10 days before."