Newly crowned Championship champions Leeds United are targeting a return to the Champions League after ending their 16-year absence from the Premier League.
Leeds secured promotion back to England’s top flight on Friday when West Brom were defeated by Huddersfield Town, and the title was theirs 24 hours later after Brentford’s shock loss at Stoke City.
The Championship title is Leeds’ first trophy since winning the English top flight in 1992, and the Yorkshire club are determined to reestablish themselves at top of the football pyramid.
"Whilst we're celebrating, whilst we're all very excited, we've got back to where we belong. This really is base camp for Leeds United," chief executive Angus Kinnear told Sky Sports.
"Leeds United shouldn't be a Championship side, they should be a Premier League side, so really the challenge starts now and it's about competing in the PL.
"Now it's going to be really about building on that and making sure that over the next few years we start to compete at the level Leeds should be competing in, which ultimately is the top six, and that's always been our aim.
"Leeds should have a Premier League team. Candidly, Leeds should have a Champions League team and that's the vision."
More pressingly, Leeds are keen to tie manager Marcelo Bielsa down to a new contract.
"Victor, Andrea and I will be straight in with Marcelo next week, talking about plans for next season, exactly as we did at the start of this season," he added, in an interview with the Yorkshire Evening Post.
"He has a review, he knows the direction he wants to take the club in and it'll go from things we need on the playing side right through to changes he wants to be made at Thorp Arch and the backroom staff.
"Obviously his own personal arrangements as well we need to resolve."
