Phil Hay has admitted that he can’t see Jesse Marsch being Leeds United’s manager after the World Cup break.
Leeds are currently on one of the worst runs of form in the Premier League having lost their last four league games and are also now on an even longer run without a win which stretches back over eight matches.
The Whites find themselves in the bottom three but are avoiding what other clubs such as Aston Villa and Wolves have done in sacking their manager, as Victor Orta and Andrea Radrizzani are seemingly happy to back Marsch and hope he can turn things around.
However, Hay was asked on The Phil Hay Show if he believed Marsch would be in charge after the World Cup, and he certainly wasn’t convinced by that possibility.
“It’s hard to believe that he will be [here after the World Cup], although that will depend on the club, and the club’s confidence in him has held through these two results – two games that felt so critical and two games that felt as if points needed to come from them.
Should Leeds have sacked Marsch by now?
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No!
“It’s an incredibly hard game at Anfield, it will be an incredibly hard game down at Tottenham. Bournemouth in the middle is definitely winnable, and that is the sort of result that could keep him ticking over, but I think both the club and Marsch will know that the odds of them avoiding the inevitable with this are fairly slim.”
TIF Thoughts on Marsch’s position at Leeds…
It’s no secret that Marsch is under pressure from the Leeds fans who booed their team after their Sunday defeat against Fulham as well as the media, with Hay himself claiming that the relationship between Marsch and Leeds isn’t working.
Therefore, he has his work cut out to get the fans back onside, which may take more than just a few wins in the league, and he may have to alter his style of play to become more acceptable to the Leeds faithful.
Leeds may well be backing Marsch at the moment, but with a significant stoppage in play when the World Cup rolls around at the back end of next month, they may well be looking at that time and thinking that’s when they can effectively replace Marsch and avoid a knee-jerk appointment.