Former Leeds United striker Noel Whelan feels that the Whites need to bolster their goalkeeping area in spite of the presence of Marco Silvestri.
Silvestri has established himself as the number 1 at Elland Road, but the goalkeeper has often been guilty of making mistakes at key moments in games.
The statistics were reflected in the Whites' league performances with the Yorkshire side ending with negative goal difference, one of the two teams in the top 15 in the league table with such a record.
As a result the Peacocks, under their newly appointed manager Garry Monk, are reportedly on the lookout for a new goalkeeper with Rotherham United's Lee Camp and Derby County's Lee Grant both being linked with moves to Elland Road.
Whelan, who has seen both players at close quarters while playing for Derby County, believes that both are good options and will help provide competition to the current number 1.
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"We have also been linked with two goalkeepers in Lee Camp and Lee Grant and, as far as Marco Silvestri goes, I think everyone is replaceable, as long as you are bringing in someone that is going to improve it more than you have got", Whelan wrote in his column for the Yorkshire Evening Post.
"That’s the only reason why you go out and look to replace somebody – are they going to give you something that the current player can’t?
"I played with both of them at Derby County when I was there and they are both good keepers with lots of experience and loads of experience in the English divisions.
"And as with Silvestri, we have seen the good and the bad with them.
"But we definitely need bolstering in that goalkeeping area because we need someone that is going to talk more and someone that is going to command the area.
"There’s so many good things about Silvestri but there’s a lot of the bad things which seem to kill us a little bit. We need more from the goalkeeper."
