Eight days of a fifth manager in 2023
Analysis of pre-season friendlies always comes with the usual caveats. It’s summer, players are not fit, tired from training, disjointed tactically, lacking competitive motivation, often in front of lacklustre crowds and against opponents with all of the same issues.
Leeds United are in an especially difficult-to-read spot at the moment, though. Wednesday’s 2-0 defeat to Manchester United was only Daniel Farke’s eighth day on the job and, as he made the point himself post-match, this is the fifth different voice these players are listening to in a fraction over five months.
