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After one game he abandoned 3 years of work, when tweaks at the back would have been the best option and some game management. Not seen anything like it to be honest. You had to be there and id say be a leeds fan who has seen a fair bit of this club,with its own unique way of fucking things up for ourselves. Cant think of such a risky stupidly quick change at any club in decades of going and im a home and away football fan. How did we stay up? From then on in it was down to in certain games certain players abandoning his plan, some luck with VAR & refs to see us home, a shot being "saved"by put keepers face and more, he made us worse. He did get "unlucky" that other teams had runs at the end but in reality we all know you can only effect your own games. Hes not "succeeded" anywhere when you take a closer look, without the RED BULL money and tactical play book in Austria, he was at a club in a league where it would be like Man City playing in a PL with teams the quality of say the bottom 6 of this division or top of the championship exclusivley. Postives, he let the players off the Bielsa fitness regimes (we are paying for that now) and with that he lifted morale but even that by the 3rd to last game had players walking past his high fives and avoiding him as he ran across the pitch at the end of 0-0 draw at selhurst park, that was 2pts dropped. LUFC has been in the midst of a takeover for the last 2 seasons, idealy it should have completed end of 20/21 and the manager we had then would have been backed but it didnt, so we ended up with jesse marsch, a mate of our insane Director of football Victor Orta. Trouble at the mill in the background is the only limited excuse he has but by fuck they backed him with transfer monies. If we had any sense we would have said thanks and good bye after the end of last season, just as we should have done with Peter Ried in 2002.

To be honest, leeds fan here in peace. You have had a lucky escape. He is more than a bit of a fake, taken us backwards in a year with better players and much much worse football and the fitness levels at the club is now a problem, something wed got used to thinking we could last the full 90 at full bore, is no more. On top of that had backing more than he deserved from the leeds support home and away. Its a myth hes suffered an xenophobic response or been straddled by the ghost of Biesla. He had support, from board and fans at games. Blamed everyone else but himself and was performative beyond sense, calling the players scared on the touchline whilst not being willing to say thank you to travelling fans after defeats. Also the odd habit of celebrating defeats, which didnt go down well. Ive seen a lot following leeds in the last 50 years, good and bad and sometimes just plain mad and whilst hes not the most crazy or unfit to do the job we've had he is one of the worst for the level he was managing. Pound for pound hes right up there in our shit managers list. Im upset in a way that we wont be facing him at Elland road whilst i have no doubt in our ability to lose a game, we would have had a great chance against his "penisball" tactics and the acres of space he left on both flanks for opposing teams to waltz into.