When Jesse Marsch recently joined the employment networking website LinkedIn, speculation that the Leeds manager was about to be sacked and had begun job hunting reached fever pitch. The American was simply hoping to exchange ideas on leadership with “different business people” in “different walks of life”, but the experience highlighted the suspicion many continue to harbour towards the Princeton history graduate.
No one seems quite sure what to make of the academically high-flying son of a tractor factory worker from the United States’ Midwest who has morphed from an aggressive MLS midfield enforcer to an emotionally open Premier League manager.
