Time has not been Jesse Marsch’s friend since he took charge of Leeds United with 12 matches to save the club’s season across 11 weeks. The priority has of course been drilling his ideas into the first-team unit at Thorp Arch with the help of his backroom staff Cameron Toshack, Franz Schiemer and Mark Jackson.
Marsch’s wider vision incorporates all levels of the football club working to the same tactical philosophy, but those changes are not instilled overnight. The American and his backroom team watched on from the back of the John Charles Stand on Monday evening as the under-23s hammered Crystal Palace 4-0.
Andrew Taylor, who was pulling the strings from the dugout, said the new regime was already having an impact upon the under-23s, despite the first-team pressures taking precedence at Leeds right now. He said: “It’s credit to him, to Frankie, to Cameron, and obviously Jacko’s got that affiliation anyway with the 23s, the amount of time and effort and care they put in, not only to their lads, but to our lads as well, the 23s, the 18s, they genuinely want us, everybody, to progress, everybody to get better.
