Leeds United made a lot of mistakes last season, that’s for sure. Indeed, you can’t be relegated without making some bad decisions, and perhaps the most obvious mistake Leeds made was in training.
They stuck with Jesse Marsch for too long, and then hiring Javi Gracia was a disaster.
Angus Kinnear has now come to talk about the situation on The Square Ball Podcast, and he says Leeds should probably have signed Sam Allardyce instead of Gracia at the time.
Kinnear gave his verdict on Allardyce.
“After reflection, do you think it would be better to pick Allardyce when it’s time to get rid of Marsch?” We asked Kinnear. Kinnear said: “I think Sam probably would, because he’s the ultimate pragmatist, I think he could have given us a better chance at this point, but that’s the thing. it’s too late”.
While we hate to cliché about this, we honestly think that Sam Allardyce could have saved Leeds if he had been hired sooner.
As Kinnear says, he’s the most pragmatic, and even in the four games he’s played, he’s almost accomplished a miracle.
He would have had the win over Newcastle if it hadn’t been for the sheer machinations of Junior Firpo in that game, while he might as well consider himself very unlucky not to have won against West Ham. , while Allardyce’s Leeds was also pushed up. City of Manchester. too difficult.
Say what you want about Big Sam, he’s very likely to get results at this level, and if he had had more time at Leeds they’d probably still be in the Premier League. Karl Robinson is not without reason to call Allardyce a “tactical genius”.
