When Jesse Marsch recently joined the employment networking website LinkedIn, speculation that the Leeds manager was about to be sacked and had begun job hunting reached fever pitch. Even more confusingly, his team are riddled with similarly glaring contradictions. Few Premier League counterparts can rival Bamford’s high-calibre movement. Marsch certainly needs Bamford, Gnonto, Rodrigo (who Rutter selected as his ideal PlayStation partner) and co as Leeds aims to improve a record of twowins in their past Premier League 15 games. Significantly, Marsch does acknowledge there have been cultural teething problems during the 11 months since he replaced Marcelo Bielsa.
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