Ex-Leeds defender Newsome stunned by manager search failure

Football
21 Feb 2023 • 2:31 PM MYT
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Former Leeds United defender Jon Newsome is stunned at his ex-club's failure to find a replacement for Jesse Marsch.

The American coach was sacked more than a week ago, but Leeds are still relying on interim coaches to lead the first team.

Newsome believes that not having a replacement in mind before sacking Marsch was either arrogance or naivety from Leeds.

"I don't know whether it's possibly naivety or whether it's a touch of arrogance," Newsome told BBC Radio Leeds.

"You know what we're going to sack our manager, we've got a list of managers who are all in work and we'll go and get one of those.

"I don't know whether that's naivety or arrogance but it's not that easy to go and get a manager out of a football club if that football club has a) got a decent contract that surrounds the manager and puts the football club in charge and b) you've got to then entice the manager.

"Like Arne Slot, he is top of the league with Feyenoord. It's a really, really big ask to ask, you want to walk away from them halfway through the season and not see out, maybe win a title and come to Leeds United who are fighting relegation."