Here are your Leeds United evening headlines on Thursday, May 4.
Roy Hodgson tells Leeds United Sam Allardyce arrival won't bring 'magic dust'
Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson has claimed he finds Premier League teams making managerial changes this late in the season 'a little bit strange'.
The 75-year-old's comments come a day after Sam Allardyce replaced Javi Gracia in the Elland Road dugout and are both interim managers who will finish the season by leaving their sides.
""I don't quite know what the new manager is really expected to do," Hodgson admitted, who was appointed back in March after Patrick Vieira's departure from Selhurst Park.
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"I must say I do find it a little bit strange to see that there are so many changes so very, very late in the season. There is no magic, there is no dust you can sprinkle over the team, you can only work with the players who are there.
"It will be if the players can react to the new manager and find something they haven't found before.
"If I was the owner of the club, I'd be asking the question if they find something that hasn't been there before, what's stopped them up to this point?"
Sam Allardyce's Patrick Bamford expectations as Leeds United chief pinpoints key role
Sam Allardyce has pinpointed Patrick Bamford as someone who could play a critical role for Leeds United over the remaining four games of the Premier League season. The former England boss has work to do at Elland Road if he is to keep the Whites in the top flight and he knows he’ll need all hands on deck over the coming weeks.
However, having watched Leeds underachieve from afar this campaign, he knows he must attempt to bring the best out of key players across the park. One of those players is Bamford, who despite scoring two in his last four outings, has struggled to perform on a consistent basis all season.
The striker has only scored four Premier League goals all season, with form and fitness seeing him move in and out of the side with regularity. Allardyce, though, will be looking to Bamford to step things up and make more of an impact over the final month after singling him out in his opening press conference as head coach of the Whites.
Ex-Leeds United manager Brian McDermott lands director of football role
Former Leeds United manager Brian McDermott has been named as Scottish Premiership side Hibernian's Director of Football.
The 62-year-old, who headed up the Elland Road dugout from April 2013 until May 2014, has since worked as a scout for his former club Arsenal as well as a consultant for organisations like the League Manager's Association.
Now McDermott has arrived at Easter Road, with manager Lee Johnson's side sat in fifth and playing St. Mirren this weekend with the club announcing that the pair will 'work closely together' and focus on 'recruitment of players and football operations such as scouting, analysis, sports science, and medicine'.
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