Players are leaving but not arriving. The ones left behind are being taught to play wi' ball but not wi'out ball. The defending and stuff, hopefully, is coming next week. But in the meantime we had to play Manchester United.
Farke’s first Championship champions scored 93 goals with a goal difference of +36. His second scored 75 with +39. I’ll take either. Thanks in advance, Daniel.
Football could do with working out where its next generation of coaching talent is coming from. If it's between Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard and Steve Bruce the next time the England job comes up, it'll be a moment of national despair.
Quite why Radrizzani has chosen to give up the pretence at this point is hard to say. I wonder if, maybe, it's all got too much for him. By which I mean Twitter, specifically.
Staying up, after this season and last, doesn't feel like something to celebrate. And yet, if Leeds somehow pull this off, will anyone inside Elland Road be able to resist? 'Don't you know, pump it up! The Whites are...'
Three minutes of highlights in return for 24/7 access to direct messaging feels, at this point, like a stupid exchange. It makes footballers feel less like players, more like online vessels for receiving anger about other things.
Perhaps you were also wondering how Marcelo Bielsa felt when Argentina won the World Cup — Pablo Lamedica from TyC Sports in Argentina was, and asked him about it. And perhaps you will see how the answer relates to recent strife at Leeds United AFC.
Part of me would love to get Jesse Marsch and Sam Allardyce round a table over a few pints of wine so I could hear them trading mindfulness techniques and motivational quotes
Maybe we'll just go with what everyone wants: dugout cam. Forget the camera following the action, just focus one on each manager, split the screen, and we can spend ninety minutes wondering: can he do it?
The story of an upwardly mobile exemplar of innovation disintegrating into a bitter caricature of the very aspects his haters used to mock, as a result of his own egotism and hubris, makes Sam Allardyce the obvious candidate to be Leeds United manager through the month of May 2023.