Ange Postecoglou will not ‘jump ship’ from Celtic to Leeds United following the sacking of Jesse Marsch, former Premier League stalwart Jason Cundy tells talkSPORT (6 February, 10.40am).
Well, not right now, anyway.
Celtic are cruising nine points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership; a second successive title edging dangerously close to ‘formality’ territory for a coach who has revolutionised the Hoops from top to bottom since replacing Neil Lennon almost two years ago.
Celtic have been here before of course; Brendan Rodgers turning his back on the Glasgow giants when Leicester City came calling four years ago this month.
But Cundy, the former Chelsea, Tottenham and Crystal Palace defender, is not expecting Postecoglou to do the same, even if Leeds remains one of the biggest and most high-profile jobs in English football.
Would Celtic coach Angelos Postecoglou replace Jesse Marsch at Leeds United?
“It makes zero sense for him to leave now,” Cundy says. “Right now, as big an opportunity as it is to manage Leeds, you are not jumping ship to leave Celtic.
“You’re not doing that.”
Cundy does feel, however, that Postecoglou will have a difficult decision to make come the summer. The Greek-born Australian has proven himself to be a genuinely elite-level tactician in both Japan and Scotland, but remains something of an unknown quantity in one of the game’s more high-profile domestic competitions.
“If Leeds are in the Premier League next season, I think he seriously considers it, yeah,” Cundy adds.
“The lure of the Premier League, pitting your wits against the best clubs and best managers in the world… Look at Brendan Rodgers. Martin O’Neill. There are managers who have made that shift.
“(Postecoglou) has got to want to manage at the highest level hasn’t he, every week?”
The former Australia coach’s current deal, per Transfermarkt, expires at the end of the current campaign. Postecoglou’s passion for free-flowing, fast-paced attacking football would be very well received by Leeds supporters who gorged themselves on weekly feasts laid out by Marcelo Bielsa at Elland Road, especially after becoming starved of such exhilaration during the drawn out final few months of Jesse Marsch.
Leeds, per 90Min, could look to bring former U23 boss Carlos Corberan back to West Yorkshire. Corberan, however, is only a few months into a long-term contract at West Brom.
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