The Leeds head coach has been discussing his plans for next term.
Leeds United boss Steve Evans says he is preparing for pre-season next campaign – but the Scot is wary of the fact he may not be in charge to implement his plans.
The Leeds head coach is quoted as saying by the Yorkshire Evening Post: “But there’s a lot of hard work going on for pre-season, dates, programmes, opposition and everything that goes around that. The work doesn’t stop. The only thing there has to be is a decision (on his job) by the president. I know how I’d like that to go but sometimes in life you get things you like and things you don’t.”
The problem for Evans, of course, is that Neil Redfearn said the exact same thing this time last year.
He is quoted as telling LUTV by Inside Futbol:
“I’ve started to put pre-season in place. I was asked to do so by Andrew Umbers.
“I’ve got somewhere I want to go, I’ve got dates I want the boys to report back, the personal programmes will be put together, the boys will be spark tested last game of the season, that last week.”
And even Brian McDermott is quoted as saying in 2014 by the Yorkshire Post: “We know what the pre-season will look like, in terms of the schedule. We don’t know where we are going to go and we have got to arrange games. That has got to be done and that will probably be done next week.”
The difference, however, is that Evans knows what has gone on before and has himself even acknowledged that his job is under threat or, at the very least, not guaranteed.
That said, he does actually need to heed the lessons of history. Clearly, arranging pre-season at Leeds amounts to nothing at all in terms of job security.
The Scot does appear fully ready for a scenario where he is not Leeds boss next season. And he may well need to be.
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