2023-05-02 14:06:27
The Leeds manager will leave the club as announced on Tuesday.
The sporting director of Leeds, the Spaniard Victor Orta, has “left the club by mutual consent“, announced Tuesday the English football club, in great difficulty in its championship.
Four days from the end of the season, the Peacocks are 17th and first non-relegation but are level on points with the 18th and a very difficult calendar awaits them, with in particular a trip to Manchester City on the 35th day then the reception of Newcastle the following day.
«It’s time to take a new direction»
«Victor joined the Whites in the summer of 2017 and helped oversee changes that brought the club back to the Premier League in 2020“recalls the management of the club in a press release. Orta notably played a pivotal role in the arrival at Yorkshire of Marcelo Bielsa, the manager who ended 16 years out of the top flight.
«I am deeply saddened by the way this chapter with Victor ends (…) However, it is clear that it is time to take a new direction“Explained the owner of Leeds United FC, Andrea Radrizzani, quoted in the press release. The press release does not say anything about the future of the coach, Javi Gracia, but the English press announces the Spanish technician very close to the dismissal, which would make him the 13th Premier League coach dismissed this season.
Javi Gracia himself arrived during the exercise, replacing the American Jesse Marsch, dismissed at the beginning of February. But his team have only taken one point in the last five days, conceding 17 goals for 5 registered, including a 4-1 defeat on Sunday at rival Bournemouth. “We have four finals left to play this season and if we work together I think we can survivein the top flight, Radrizzani continued.
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