Legacies of Leeds United’s 2021/22 season have long been shunted into the darker recesses of many fans’ memories. When survival from relegation is not secured until the final day it’s plain to see why such misery is better off forgotten as quickly as possible.
Jesse Marsch ultimately navigated the club through the choppy waters of his 12 matches in charge, but even he sampled some of the crushing lows which punctuated the campaign. Few will remember his rescue mission for its free-flowing, swashbuckling football, but there was one legacy primed to take off again in 22/23.
Sam Greenwood featured three times with the first team under Marcelo Bielsa, but few could have expected the match time he was given under Marsch. The head coach went as far as saying the 20-year-old was adapting faster to his methodology than anyone else in the squad.
