Gary Neville has criticised the Leeds United hierarchy and Andrea Radrizzani as the club’s managerial chaos shows no sign of ending.
Leeds chose to sack Jesse Marsch earlier this month after a pretty torrid run of form.
Many expected to the Whites to find a replacement pretty quickly but that just hasn’t happened.
We’re now two weeks on from Marsch’s exit and Leeds still haven’t found a new manager.
Targets like Carlos Corberan, Andoni Iraola and Arne Slot have all chosen to stay with their current clubs rather than join Leeds.
A deal for Alfred Schreuder was scrapped and it looks like Marcelo Gallardo doesn’t fancy the job.
Where on earth do Leeds go from here? Interim boss Michael Skubala is doing his best but Saturday’s defeat at Everton leaves Leeds in big trouble.
Gary Neville questions Leeds United hierarchy
Pundit Gary Neville has now had his say on Leeds and their managerial chaos.
Neville has told The Gary Neville Podcast that he thinks Leeds have maybe shown poor planning or even arrogance by sacking Marsch and not finding a successor.
Neville thinks the idea of sacking a manager and thinking you can get someone in eventually is just naive and that sometimes a number of targets can slip through the net.
The former Manchester United defender believes criticism needs to go beyond the players and above interim boss Skubala.
Neville pointed the finger of blame at the club’s hierarchy, believing that they have simply allowed uncertainty in the changing room and the fanbase.
Neville also had to chuckle at Andrea Radrizzani tweeting that Leeds were pressing ahead with interviews just days after sacking Marsch, only to end up deleting his tweet as Leeds missed out on a number of targets.
Radrizzani had also tweeted just a day after Marsch’s exit that Leeds were close to a new manager, with Neville seemingly sensing chaos at Elland Road.
“Sometimes it can be poor planning, it can sometimes be a little bit of arrogance – both, probably – that you think you can sack your manager and think ‘don’t worry, we’ll get one of the ones that we want’ and all of a sudden they all turn you down or they all aren’t available, that can happen and that’s usually naivety that causes that, where you sort of get above your station and think you can just bring anyone in that you want,” said Neville.
“From Leeds’ point of view, you have to look above the players and you have to look above the current interim manager and you have to say it isn’t looking particularly great on their part at this moment in time in terms of how they’ve dealt with the sacking of a manager, you need a seamless transition to settle the changing room down and settle the fanbase down.”
“Did he not come out on Twitter three or four days after the sacking saying ‘it’s looking like we’re going to appoint someone this week’? Was it deleted, yeah? It’s never great when you have to delete a tweet is it?” he added.
Now in the bottom three, Leeds really need to find a new manager sooner rather than later – or they will end up back in the Championship.
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