Claridge is a pundit for The Football League Show and Football Focus

Leeds clinched promotion to the Championship on a thrilling final weekend in League One and this week I take a look at what the Elland Road side must do over the summer if they are to succeed next season.

I also consider why Swansea missed out on the play-offs and give my view on Ipswich's 17-year-old striker Connor Wickham.

As well as that, I give my thoughts on Gillingham sacking their manager Mark Stimson and consider the problem of pitch invasions that are so common following important end-of-season matches.

If you have a question for me, you can submit it through Twitter at http://twitter.com/AskClaridge or use the form on the top right of the page.

Hi Steve, how much money will Leeds need to spend in the summer and what areas need to be strengthened for them to succeed in the Championship?
Jeffy, Ireland

I would say Leeds will need a minimum of eight new players if they want to compete next year, which would probably be the best part of £10m.

They should have that money too. I do not know what their debts were but they made £4.5m last year and have sold Fabian Delph and had a great FA Cup run since then too.

Their game on Saturday was car-crash TV at times but the best thing that happened for them was that Bristol Rovers scored and that gave Leeds the focus they needed. Sure, they got a bit of luck too but they deserved it and, over the course of the season, I do not think anyone would begrudge them going up.

It was a fantastic promotion race in League One and I cannot wait for the play-offs. On Saturday, we had feeds of all the games and it was mesmerising watching things unfold, especially when three different teams were going up in the space of three minutes. Forget about the Premier League, that was amazing entertainment and it summed up a great battle for second place.

Hi Steve, as a Swansea fan I am gutted at the moment after seeing us miss out on the Championship play-offs. What do you think the manager needs to do to the squad for next season?
Lloyd Jones, Wales

Lloyd does not need me to answer that. Swansea's lack of goals speaks for itself. One way to solve it might be to change their shape to 4-4-2 but the problem is actually not that they cannot create chances, they just have not got anyone who can score goals.

It might be worth them trying to get Jason Scotland back from Wigan, where he has not done a lot since ex-Swans boss Roberto Martinez signed him last summer.

Scotland would certainly suit the way Swans play. Swansea keep the ball and are a nice footballing side but they have no cutting edge.

Ipswich's Connor Wickham is apparently attracting serious interest from a few Premier League clubs. Firstly how do you rate him? Personally, I think we should keep him seeing that he has only just signed his first contract with Town but, with fees of about £5m being talked of, how much do you think it would take to twist manager Roy Keane's arm sufficiently or should we hold on to one of England's brightest prospects whatever?
Bob, Cornwall

Wickham is reported to be interesting several Premier League sides

I do not think Ipswich will let him go, I do not think anybody will pay enough for that to happen at the moment.

They are not a selling club so, unless they have to try to recoup some of the big money they have spent in the last couple of years, I cannot see them selling him. If you employ Roy Keane as manager, you expect to see him spend money, not sell his talented players.

Connor is only 17 so there is no rush either. Realistically, he would not do a lot at somewhere like Tottenham because he has only been a bit-part player at Ipswich.

If someone does spend a few million on him, they would be paying for potential. If I were him, I would stay and learn my trade with Ipswich. If I was going to Spurs I would like to go there with a stronger hand to play than anyone can aged 17.

Steve, I just wondered what your thoughts were on Gillingham's relegation. You seemed to think on the Football League Show on Saturday that not many players would be there next season if Mark Stimson stayed on as manager? Now he has gone, do you fancy the job?
Simon, England

I am not surprised that Stimson went. If you go down, it is sometimes how you go down that counts and Gillingham got relegated by losing 3-0 to an already-relegated side.

Wycombe 3-0 Gillingham

To play like they did when their life depends on it is worrying. You can compare their performance to Tranmere, who went to Stockport on the same day and got the job done.

Stimson has got them relegated twice now, although obviously he did get them up once too, and I think the way Gills fans felt played a part in the decision. That just shows that their opinions still matter.

What next? Well, from the outside looking in, you would think they would be ambitious to do well in League Two next season but only their chairman Paul Scally knows what the future holds.

I am not looking for a return to management but I see that Andy Hessenthaler has been linked with a return there. He was a great player for Gillingham and did very well as manager there in very difficult circumstances.

He has done well in non-League with Dover in the last couple of years but he has had a big budget to work with there. I am not sure whether it would be the right thing to do for him or Gillingham to go back there but he is somebody I rate highly and one thing I do know for sure is that there will be plenty of takers for that job.

Steve, I was one of the Barnet fans that travelled to Grimsby last week. That game was yet another example of fans invading the pitch, this time before anything was actually achieved. Do you think this is a trait that's creeping more and more into the game?
Craig Clayton, England

It has always been a problem. I can remember being punched at West Ham when I went there with Cambridge at the end of the 1992/93 season.

Players need to get themselves off the pitch as quickly as possible in those situations, sadly, because there seems no way of preventing them.

What are you going to do, arrest everybody who runs on to the pitch and ban them all? At Elland Road on Saturday there was a sign saying please keep off the pitch but there were about 38,000 people on there.

You have to hope that people are responsible enough. With Leeds it was just supporters who were celebrating and could not help themselves but it is different if they go on and start taunting the opposition fans. That is quite pathetic.

Steve Claridge is a BBC Football League pundit who played more than 800 matches for 15 clubs over the course of a 24-year playing career. He was talking to Chris Bevan.

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