Leeds United have missed out on a number of transfer targets over the past few years.

Che Adams, Daniel James and Michael Cuisance are three that immediately come to mind, but perhaps their biggest transfer error of the past few years was missing out on John McGinn.

The Yorkshire club lined up a £2.5m bid for the Scot in the summer of 2018, but their failure to meet Hibs’ £5m asking price saw them miss out on him.

McGinn instead went to Aston Villa where he has been an absolute star.

The Scot has shown his quality in the both the Championship and the Premier League, and his brilliance has seen him linked with a number of big-money moves.

A £50m switch to Manchester United was rumoured last summer, but a more modest £30m switch to Newcastle looked to be on the cards at one point this summer, but Villa managed keen to keep hold of their midfield maestro and he’s wasted no time in showing them that was the right decision.

McGinn has started this season like a man possessed, providing four assists and scoring one goal in his first four games as Aston Villa started the season perfectly.

His brilliance shouldn’t come as that much of a surprise, he was described as a ‘top talent’ by John Terry prior to Villa’s first season back in the top-flight, and Leeds could really have used a player of his quality.

Mateusz Klich is good, don’t get us wrong, but McGinn is just that level higher and if he was a part of Marcelo Bielsa’s squad he may have elevated Leeds to that next level.

In hindsight, £5m for McGinn would have been an absolute bargain especially when you consider that he’s now being linked to £30m moves and Leeds should be kicking themselves that they didn’t sign him back in 2018.