Leeds United completed their third deal of a busy first few weeks of the summer on Friday, as Marc Roca joined the club from Bayern Munich. Victor Orta is working hard to give Jesse Marsch a squad better suited for the rigours of the Premier League, after the club came so close to relegation in 21/22. As well as filling out the squad with numbers and raising the quality level, Orta is bringing in players which will suit particular roles within Marsch's preferred tactical system and philosophy.
That's due to the fact that whilst Leeds were successful in maintaining their top-flight status under Marsch, the American was clear on several occasions that the way in which the team had played during the 12 games he managed this season was not the way he would have liked, as he was forced to priortise results over process in the fight for safety. Meanwhile, the players themselves weren't always able to grasp the new tactical concepts amidst the nerves of the situation.
With a pre-season, many of those players will likely be able to adjust better but it's clear that the new players brought in will need to have the atrributes and some familiarity with the kinds of principles Marsch would like Leeds to follow. In the cases of Brenden Aaronson and Rasmus Kristensen, it's very easy to see how this will work, as both played under Marsch at RB Salzburg. They will have obvious roles in Leeds' manager's tactical set-up.
