The Mailbox features a pessimistic Leeds fan unimpressed with their recruitment decisions. Also: Sadio Mane, Arsenal’s deal with Rwanda and books for the beach.
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The Marschterplan
It’s all well and good writing an article about the Leeds board taking a risk with Jesse Marsch’s rebuild, but like all things in football, it’s nothing new.
Cast your minds back ten years or so. Leeds have been promoted with a popular manager. He took them to the cusp of the unthinkable – as close to the Championship playoffs as Bielsa was to whatever that new Intertoto Conference bollocks is. Yet Grayson was let down by a thin squad that was strengthened in the wrong areas and an inability to concede fewer than three goals a game.
So what did the board of the day do? Sack him, replace him with a route one football rentagob who was more interested in TalkSh*te interviews than the training ground, sell off our best players (including the local hero running our midfield and the exciting winger who scored most of our goals), and let the new guy bring in players he’d worked with before.
Cue years of finishing 15th until the glorious Bielsa revolution.
It’s all scarily familiar.
Am I saying that Jesse Marsch is just the Wisconsin Warnock? Am I comparing Aaronson and Kristensen to Browneh and Tongeh and Paddeh Kenneh?
Yes. And Diego Llorente has more than a faint whiff of the Scott Wootton about him too.
But just like stagnation in the second division was enough for Ken Bates to fulfil his ambition of having a column in the programme to spout nonsense at us for years, stagnation in the top flight will be perfectly acceptable for the current Leeds board. A few years of finishing 15th will net them a few quid before they finally offload the club and turn a tidy profit.
And in the meantime, we can all enjoy watching the dimmest man in professional soccer enlighten us with insights such as “I don’t like my team getting wide, the goal is in the middle of the pitch” and “We started brilliantly until Chelsea scored (after 3 minutes).”
Andy – Leeds fan in Salford
So long, Sadio
Bit of a mixed bag of feelings about Sadio Mane’s exit all things considered.
There’s no part of me that actually wants him to leave, especially after the second half of last season. He has a very legitimate case to be a top 5 player in the world right now and surely unarguably a top 10 – it’s hard to be super enthusiastic about…
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