Upheaval from the top of Leeds United was always going to send shockwaves through the rest of the club. The under-21s saw their figurehead ripped away and yet they are now, still, 90 minutes away from promotion.
Jesse Marsch’s February sacking saw under-21 boss Michael Skubala pulled away from the day job and stuck in front of the world’s media as United navigated their most important week of the season. While Skubala was taking on Manchester United, Michal Pujdak kept the under-21 machine marching on.
Skubala would stay with the first team under Javi Gracia, but Paco Gallardo would drop back down to lead the youth side with Pujdak. It cannot have been an easy period for a young group facing so much change in so little time, but it was not chaos Leeds wanted to insulate them from.
