The Leeds United under-23 coach will leave this summer.
Leeds United’s former sporting director Nicola Salerno has taken to Twitter to react to the news that Jason Blunt will be leaving Elland Road this summer.
As confirmed by the club’s official website, Blunt will leave his role as under-23 coach at the end of July to start a new job at an academy in Cornwall, and following the news Salerno wrote simply: “Top man” along with an image with the phrase “My soul is sad.”
Salerno knows Blunt well from their time together at Leeds, with the latter on the club’s coaching staff for the last seven years and the former leaving his role at the club in the summer of 2015.
Blunt oversaw a disappointing campaign for Leeds’ second string this season, with the young Whites losing more often than not.
Few of the players on show suggested they could ultimately follow the likes of Ronaldo Vieira into the Leeds first-team, with only Mallik Wilks and Eoghan Stokes showing any real quality.
Ronaldo Vieira was the last young talent to break through at Leeds
A player who was tipped for great things at Elland Road was teenage defender Jack Vann but he, along with Billy Whitehouse, was released earlier this summer.
Blunt will no doubt be excited at the new project that awaits him, but now Leeds owner Andrea Radrizzani has another role to fill, along with that of manager following Garry Monk’s shock resignation late last month.
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