Does the Leeds United boss know how to use his best two attackers?
Samu Saiz and Ezgjan Alioski have been ever-present figures for Leeds United this season.
Saiz, a £3.1 million signing from Huesca, has started nine from a possible 11 Championship games, while £3.2 million ex-Lugano star Alioski has started 10.
The pair are nearly always involved, but not always in the same role and you wonder whether head coach Thomas Christiansen knows where best to utilise Leeds’ big-money summer additions.
Saiz and Alioski, along with Pablo Hernandez, form one of the Championship’s most impressive attacking midfield triumvirates but the 44-year-old boss changes them around as often as Robbie Keane changes boyhood clubs and such tinkering can’t be good for consistency.
Following Christiansen’s decision to play Alioski on the left in Sunday’s 3-0 demolition at Sheffield Wednesday, it appears as if the trio all have two roles in which they can operate.
On paper it’s fantastic, but the fact that they are posting contrasting individual performances from week to week is not so great and the Leeds boss should question his own methods.
Perhaps he does it for sheer unpredictability, a bid to keep opposition manager guessing right up until 2pm on a Saturday when the teams are released, but it’s probably as confusing for Saiz and Alioski as it is opponents’ players.
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