Legions of staff propped up Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds United regime and with him went the vast majority of the support staff around the first team. Jesse Marsch has brought just Cameron Toshack and Franz Schiemer with him to Thorp Arch thus far, but plans are afoot for those ranks to be bolstered.
The Whites head coach said, understandably, life had been relentless since taking the job in West Yorkshire with this international break the first opportunity he has had to take stock. The American has been thoroughly impressed with the way the staff have rallied around him and the team to pick up the slack inevitably left by a vastly bigger workforce before them.
“We will add to the staff eventually,” he said. “Right now it’s a little bit of just trying to get the rhythm with everybody we have here and I'm very thankful.
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“I spoke about Mark Jackson in the first press conference [and] he's been amazing, amazing. Willy [Alonso] and Aaron, our two video analysts, have invested a lot.
“Marcos [Abad], the goalkeeper coach, has worked very closely with us. So we're cranking every day. We're probably all doing about two, three more jobs than we should be, but it's also worked, right. I haven't had enough time to even think about how to build things out from now.
“Once we get to the FIFA break, we'll be able to take a little bit of a pause and then we play once every week. Then we'll have a little bit more time to really sort everything out more and more for what things need to look like as we continue to move forward, but the way we're managing things has been very effective.
“The players are very clear every match and there's been a lot of efficiency. So that's been good, but there's been a lot of work put on all of our shoulders, which in the moment is okay.”
