Leeds United’s deeply unpopular decision to sack legendary manager Marcelo Bielsa midway through last season set in motion a chain of events that eventually led to the club’s relegation back to the Championship, Clinton Morrison believes.
The Sky Sports pundit pointed out that the Argentine ‘took that club to a different level’ – as demonstrated by Bielsa having taken over an under-achieving Championship club, ending a 16-year wait for Premier League football, and then claiming a top-half finish in their first season back in the top flight.
Leeds United sacked Bielsa in February last year to bring in Jesse Marsch as his replacement, but the American was himself dismissed after less than a year in the job. Michael Skubala then had a three-game run as caretaker boss before Javi Gracia came in for a short-lived stint, with Sam Allardyce seeing out the season with a winless four-game spell that confirmed the dreaded drop.
