Already, many on social media are backing Leeds United to struggle in the Premier League next season. And Jamie Carragher might well be one of them.
On Monday night, Sheffield United lost their promotion crunch match away at Burnley to see the Clarets promoted, and to also see Leeds United promoted to the Premier League in their second season under Daniel Farke.
Both Farke and Burnley boss Scott Parker have three career promotions from the Championship as managers, and both have undeniably huge summer transfer windows coming up too.
Farke wants a big summer at Leeds United and understandably so: last season’s three promoted teams all sit in the bottom three of the Premier League right now and two of them in Leicester City and Southampton have already been relegated.
Leeds did exceptionally well in their previous first season back in the top flight, the 2020/21 season in which they finished 9th under Marcelo Bielsa. But the Premier League is a different beast now and Leeds United simply can’t afford any mistakes in the build up to it.
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Leeds United CEO Angus Kinnear will leave the club in the summer. Kinnear is joining Everton and football advisor Nick Hammond also looks set to join Everton, leaving Leeds United with two huge vacancies in the boardroom ahead of a gruelling Premier League season, and it could spell immense danger and instability for the Whites.
Speaking on Sky Sports, Jamie Carragher spoke about how having those types of figures in place has allowed for certain teams over the years to become established and stable in the Premier League. He said: “It’s a big problem in the game now, this sort of gap between the teams coming up and the Premier League teams.
“And I think one of the biggest problems is… I think clubs are that well-run now, in terms of directors of football, and in the past you’d always have almost like a basket case in the Premier League where they do something mad in the transfer market and they’d be a stable Premier League club, and before you know it they’d be fighting relegation. I don’t think we see that as much now because teams are establish in the Premier League.”
Who is replacing Angus Kinnear and Nick Hammond at Leeds United?
When Leeds United announced Kinnear was leaving they also revealed that Peter McCormick was arriving at Elland Road as the new Executive Vice Chairman, but whether that will entail the roles that Kinnear has remains to be seen.
And recent reports have hinted that Head of Football Operations Adam Underwood is replacing Hammond at Leeds United, albeit unofficially for the time being, but it certainly seems like Marathe has people in place to fill the gaps ahead of the summer.
Though all this change ahead of their return to the Premier League could yet prove the undoing of Leeds United, as like Carragher says, any behind-the-scenes instability will have a huge influence on how the overall fate of the club pans out, especially in the top flight.
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