Band-Aid will give way to surgery at Leeds United this summer as Jesse Marsch finally gets the time and space needed to craft this team in his vision. Parachuted into Elland Road at a time he knew was far from ideal, Marsch had to sacrifice his philosophy for cold, hard results.
In his first press conference after taking the job, Marsch even admitted he had virtually told Victor Orta he felt Marcelo Bielsa should see out the season. Beginning a managerial job between seasons is always going to be more favourable to a coach, but instead, Marsch took it all on with a desperate need for wins, however they came.
There is only so much heavy lifting a coach can do with a team of players in the week between matches, especially when two of those seven days is dominated by travel and recovery. As he put it in his last press debrief of the season, Marsch was applying a Band-Aid plaster to a group which was haemorrhaging goals and momentum.
