The Elland Road club have already secured a bonus of £200,000 thanks to a promotion clause inserted in the deal that took Richard Cresswell to Stoke City last summer.

And United are now hoping to make it a double windfall with the £1.5m transfer of David Healy to Fulham including a clause that will be activated if the striker scores five League goals this season.

So far, the Northern Ireland international has found the net four times for Fulham who need to beat Portsmouth at Fratton Park on the final day to secure their top-flight status.

Should Healy get on the scoresheet, it will be a welcome cash fillip for the club going into next Monday's play-off semi-final first leg against Carlisle United at what seems certain to be a sold-out Elland Road.

Both strikers left Elland Road last summer following the club's relegation from the Championship.

Cresswell joined Stoke for an initial fee of £300,000 and has gone on to make 43 League appearances and score 11 goals to help Tony Pulis's side win automatic promotion.

United chairman Ken Bates said: "I am pleased for Stoke and I wish them well.

"When they took Richard Cresswell, we were on a bonus if they got promotion so we are delighted."

Leeds also seem to be in line for an on-field boost this week with striker Jermaine Beckford expected to return to the training ground.

The club's top scorer has been out of action since mid-April – his last appearance ironically coming in the 3-2 home win against Carlisle – with an ankle injury.

However, the problem has responded so well to treatment that Beckford is expected to rejoin his team-mates on the training field.

Whether he will then be plunged straight back into the starting line-up against Carlisle after almost a month out remains to be seen, but there can be no doubting the striker's return is a boost for Gary McAllister.

Tickets for the home leg go on general sale this morning and with Carlisle having been given an allocation of 2,000 tickets the attendance is expected to eclipse the 38,256 that watched the weekend's 2-1 win over Gillingham.

That was this season's biggest crowd in the Football League and ensured Leeds would finish 2007-08 with the highest average attendance of all 72 member clubs, pipping Sheffield United to the honour.