Sky Sports pundit tells Leeds United to hire Ange Postecoglou as new manager
Paul Robinson has told Leeds United to “go and get” Ange Postecoglou from Celtic as their new manager, but feels they’ve left it too late to do so.
The Whites sacked Jesse Marsch (6 February) but have failed to appoint a successor and caretaker boss Michael Skubala is yet to win any of his three games in charge so far.
And ex-Leeds goalkeeper Robinson, who often works for Sky Sports as a pundit, has admitted that the Celtic boss Postecoglou is the man he wants to see in the hot seat when speaking to Betfred.
“None of the names on the list of favourites spring out,” he said, as quoted by Leeds-Live (19 February).
“Leeds don’t need a project and any manager that comes in now will find it very difficult because Marcelo Bielsa played a certain way and Jesse Marsch played that way to a certain extent with the high energy and high press, but with a different formation.
“Leeds can’t do that, they’re very one dimensional and that’s been their problem. Away from home they can’t shut up shop and play on the break. They just go all guns blazing everywhere and they get picked off. To change that style now would be a huge job.
“They need a short-term fix between now and the end of the season and then reassess where they are next year. They can’t let that football club fall into the Championship because we all know what happened last time it did.
“The one person I’d love to see come in is Ange Postecoglou from Celtic but I don’t think they’ll be able to get him as they’ve left it too late. He will want to finish the season and win trophies with Celtic, but we have seen Brendan Rodgers leave Celtic in a similar situation, even though the Leicester situation at the time was more appealing than the Leeds one is now.
“He for me is a great man-manager and you’ve seen what he’s done at Celtic, so I would love Leeds to go and get him. The longer this goes on, the worse it is for Leeds.”
No chance
There was maybe a hope of getting Ange if we’d moved for him immediately and made it clear that he was the first choice for the job.
But now that we have had a very public hunt for a new manager go horribly wrong several times, it would be clear to him and everyone else that he was simply an afterthought.
Now when he is on the verge of another title in Scotland, plus having a cup final to compete for and another they could easily make with European football next season all but guaranteed, he’d be bonkers to think about leaving before the summer at the earliest.
He’s loved there, and while he would no doubt be loved here too, the job that he would be coming in to take on is absolutely huge and it would be very difficult to keep us in the league while trying to implement his own style with a squad that isn’t his.
If we stay up then it’s definitely someone to be looked at in the summer, but for now it’s a non-starter if we’re all honest.
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