The Championship side have had seven head coaches since Cellino’s takeover was ratified by the Football League.
Leeds owner Massimo Cellino
Since Massimo Cellino’s initial takeover of Leeds United was ratified by the Football League on April 5th 2014, the Italian has done little to move away from his reputation for having little patience, having worked with seven head coaches in just over two years at Elland Road.
After just six league games in charge, Garry Monk may appear to be under some pressure already. But where does he rank amongst the other coaches Cellino has worked with when it comes to their first six – if they made it to that many – fixtures in the league?
Darko Milanic
7. Darko Milanic (0.5 points per game)
The Slovenian may have won 10 trophies as a manager in his home country, but he was barely given any time to make an impression with the Whites. His sixth game – a 2-1 defeat to Wolves – signalled the end of his tenure, having failed to win any of his games in charge. United drew against Reading, Sheffield Wednesday and Norwich during his spell.
Though he failed to impress during his time in charge, he was perhaps unlucky to be dismissed so quickly having not been given a transfer window to put his stamp on the team.
Garry Monk
6. Garry Monk (0.67 points per game)
The current United boss is unsurprisingly low down on the list, having struggled with life in the Championship. The former Swansea man’s arrival was met with huge excitement at Elland Road, but the club now find themselves in the bottom three.
Unlike Milanic, Monk has overseen a victory in the league, with the team beating Sheffield Wednesday 2-0 at Hillsborough which came off the back of a 1-1 draw with Fulham.
Those four points suggested that things were starting to click, but subsequent defeats to Nottingham Forest and Huddersfield have confirmed that there is still plenty of work ahead.
Dave Hockaday
5. Dave Hockaday (0.75 points per game)
In the wake of Brian McDermott’s departure, Dave Hockaday was the surprising selection to be the first appointment of the Cellino era. Hockaday may have been a highly-respected coach before his arrival, but his only managerial experience had come at non-league side Forest Green Rovers.
The experiment, perhaps unsurprisingly, did not work out as Hockaday managed just four league games before he was dismissed. Disappointing defeats to Millwall, Brighton and Watford surrounded a win against Middlesbrough, which United arguably did not deserve.
Uwe Rosler
3= Uwe Rosler (1.34 points per game)
After impressing at Brentford and taking Wigan Athletic to the Championship play-offs, the German appeared to be a good match for Leeds as they looked for fresh ideas to help end their exile from the top flight in 2015.
Of all of the managers on the list, Rosler is the only man to boast an unbeaten league record from his opening six games. And amongst five draws, there was also a dramatic victory over Derby County at the iPro Stadium.
Unfortunately for Rosler however, the style of play was often disappointing and a run of three defeats in four across September and October saw him sacked.
Steve Evans (R)
3 = Steve Evans (1.34 points per game)
The man who replaced Rosler had a difficult task winning over sceptical United supporters. And his unspectacular start meant that the fans would not be fully won over until the end of the campaign. Draws against Fulham and Bolton were followed by a defeat to Blackburn.
But Evans was the man in charge when the club ended their long wait for a league win in front of their home fans as Alex Mowatt’s thunderous strike saw off Cardiff in November – the previous home win had come in March – and the side followed that up with a 3-0 win away at Yorkshire rivals Huddersfield.
A defeat to relegation-candidates Rotherham took some of the shine off the first six games, but it was still a promising beginning for the former Millers boss.
Neil Redfearn
2 = Neil Redfearn (1.84 points per game)
Redfearn deserves much of the credit for the number of exciting youngsters that have come through the academy at Thorp Arch in recent years. And before his departure from the club, he was often the man tasked with taking charge of the first-team in a caretaker capacity.
His third stint as caretaker was his first under Cellino, and it was such a promising four-game spell that there was plenty of disappointment when Milanic was given the job permanently instead of Redfearn.
He won three of his four games in charge, including a stunning 3-1 victory away at Bournemouth and a 3-0 win against Huddersfield.
He was given the job after Milanic’s dismissal, but his first two games of the second spell were much more underwhelming. Cardiff inflicted the only loss of the six-game spell and Charlton twice came from behind to earn a 2-2 draw in their next game. A difficult time in permanent charge saw him leave at the end of the 2014-15 season.
Brian McDermott
1. Brian McDermott (2 points per game)
Brian McDermott worked with Cellino for several months following the dramatic events that followed his arrival in Leeds – McDermott was seemingly sacked by the Italian, only to be reinstated shortly after – but he was only in charge for five games following the ratification of Cellino’s takeover.
Despite a defeat to Nottingham Forest and a draw with Derby County, victories against Blackpool, Barnsley and Birmingham saw United end a tough campaign on a high, but McDermott still parted company with the club in the summer.
Interestingly, the former Reading man has the best points per game total and is the only man on the list not to have been appointed by Cellino himself.
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