Jesse Marsch

Jesse Marsch was sacked as Leeds manager on Monday (Feb 6) after the American failed to halt the struggling club's slide towards the Premier League ...

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Jesse Marsch, the most high-profile American coach in European soccer, is out at Leeds United after less than a year on the job.

Leeds sack Jesse Marsch · Failed to win in last seven league matches · Lost to Nottingham Forest 1-0.

The Whites next take on in-form Manchester United in back-to-back Premier League ties on Wednesday and Sunday. That result extended their dire recent record, with Leeds without a win in their last seven league matches. WHAT THEY SAID: "Leeds United can confirm head coach Jesse Marsch has been relieved of his duties.

Leeds United have sacked Jesse Marsch as head coach after just under a year in charge. The American took over at Leeds in late February 2022, with the club ...

“It’s difficult to have the right words for the team right now because the emotion is obviously strong but my last message was it’s a big week. It’s the last step for me. After the loss on Sunday, Marsch said: “I have to find a way to turn good performances into winning because that’s where we are and where we’ve been for a while.

Jesse Marsch departs with his 17th-placed side out of the relegation zone only on goal difference. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The appointment of Marsch at Elland Road was greeted with scepticism, with some arguing the American’s lack of Premier League pedigree made his appointment a gamble. “Jesse joined the club in February 2022 and was instrumental in keeping the club in the Premier League on the final day of last season,” the statement said. Leeds last won a match in the Premier League on Nov 5, a dismal run that prompted fans to call for Marsch to be sacked after the Forest defeat.

Jesse Marsch was fired Monday by Leeds United, less than a year after he became the second U.S.-born head coach of a Premier League club.

Bournemouth (17) and Southampton (15) are at the bottom of the league, which will lose three clubs to relegation. program has started a four-year cycle that will culminate with the [2026 World Cup](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/06/16/2026-world-cup-host-cities/?itid=lk_inline_manual_11) being held in the United States, Mexico and Canada. assistant; a year with MLS expansion Montreal; 3½ years with the New York Red Bulls (where he won the Supporters’ Shield twice); two highly successful seasons with Red Bull Salzburg in Austria; and a five-month stint with RB Leipzig in the German Bundesliga. Leeds’s decision to sack Marsch comes amid a seven-match winless streak in league play and with the club, which features three U.S. Aside from a 2-1 victory at Liverpool in October and advancing to the FA Cup’s fifth round, Leeds has struggled to find its form. Parlow Cone suggested the search for a sporting director and coach could run into the summer.

The most prominent North American manager in world soccer lost his job on Monday, when Leeds United dismissed Jesse Marsch following a grisly 1-0 loss to ...

We could surmise that it’s not the case in light of reports that Zinedine Zidane was sounded out about his interest in the job, though the timeline suggests it was Earnie Stewart making that overture, and he since That may look like a powerful statement at first glance but doesn’t quite stand up to deeper analysis, considering what a small fraternity the club of world champions really is, and how profoundly developed their footballing cultures really are in comparison to the United States’. Some have gone so far as to cite the factoid that no national team has ever won a World Cup with a foreign manager in charge. federation have suggested, both publicly and behind closed doors, that the head coach of the national team should hail from the country, or have spent enough time here to fully understand the unique quirks that make American soccer different. There’s also a patriotic line of reasoning that the person prowling the technical area represents the flag just as much as the players or kits do. He played and coached in MLS before setting off on his trans-Atlantic adventure, and also showed a deep understanding of the US player pool in some spot work as an analyst for MLSsoccer.com. And Marsch led LUFC to Premiership survival after inheriting a mess – he succeeded a deeply revered manager, Marcelo Bielsa, who’d nonetheless just overseen a woeful skid of four lopsided losses in which Leeds had conceded 17 goals and scored two, the worst month in Prem history, leaving them with a league-worst 60 goals allowed up to that point in the season. Soccer president Cindy Parlow Cone recently laid out a six- to nine-month timeline for identifying and hiring a sporting director, then tasking that person with leading the selection of the next USMNT coach. Still, when you combine his past two jobs with his lack of national-team head coaching experience, it prompts about as many questions as answers from a USMNT perspective. Leipzig are a BuLi giant now, intent on competing for that league’s top spot every season (as quixotic as that may appear in light of Bayern Munich’s 10 straight titles) as well as making deep runs in UEFA Champions League. Marsch was a twice-capped USMNTer in his own playing days and an assistant coach from 2010-11. 1 gigs in one – in his case two – of Europe’s elite leagues.

The 49-year-old Marsch was hired in February last year as a replacement for Marcelo Bielsa, who was manager for 3 1/2 years and got Leeds promoted to the ...

Soccer Federation hires a new sporting director, which could take much of the spring and summer. Marsch could become a candidate for the vacant U.S. The position won’t be filled until after the U.S. The team is only out of the relegation zone on goal difference. Marsch has regularly bemoaned his team's inability to finish off chances while dominating games. The 49-year-old Marsch was hired in February last year as a replacement for Marcelo Bielsa, who was manager for 3 1/2 years and got Leeds promoted to the Premier League after an absence of 16 years.

Marsch was relieved of his duties as Leeds United manager Monday morning. The club had not won a Premier League game since November and currently sits at ...

Marsch was an assistant coach with German side RB Leipzig before moving to sister club Red Bull Salzburg in Austria, where he became the first American manager to win a trophy in a top flight league in Europe. Shortly after, he began coaching in the MLS having successful stints with Montreal Impact and New York Red Bulls before finally getting a move to European football in 2018. Following his retirement in 2010, he began his coaching career as an assistant coach for the U.S. Marsch helped the club avoid relegation from the Premier League last season, when the team netted a last-second win at Brentford. While wins over top clubs like Liverpool and Chelsea have given some hope for the team’s potential, the inconsistency now means that they face another uphill battle to stay in the League another season. The process of appointing a new head coach is underway and we will continue to keep supporters up to date throughout the coming days.”

Raul Gonzalez has reportedly turned down the offer to succeed Jesse Marsch at Leeds United in favour of continuing at Real Madrid Castilla.

THE BIGGER PICTURE: The 45-year-old is settled at his boyhood club and does not want to leave the Spanish capital in the middle of the season. However, the Real Madrid Castilla manager is understood to have declined the offer as he thinks 'the timing is not ideal'. The Whites parted ways with Marsch on Monday after a seven-game winless run in the Premier League, which included a dismal defeat to Nottingham Forest last time out.

Jesse Marsch and U.S. men's national team is a partnership that now makes a ton of sense after his departure from Leeds United, but there are reasons why ...

To put it simply, Marsch would certainly need to change how he does things in order to adapt to the international level. Marsch, too, has a big decision when it comes to deciding what next to do with his career. Is there reason to believe it would work with this player pool at the international level? Soccer has time to figure this all out, and whoever is brought in as sporting director will have a big decision on their hands. In so many ways, he fits the bill for a federation that has prioritized English-speaking coaches with a connection to American soccer. All of this, too, is said with the assumption that U.S. He could take the USMNT job for a few years and then reassess by either working his way back through Europe or by staying home in MLS. He has experience with the players and knows the intricacies of U.S. The fans were starting to fall out of love with the American boss, and when that happens, it's only a matter of time before the axe falls. Heading back to the U.S. Those will be questions that need to be answered in the coming months. That will take time, and offers all involved an opportunity to think over the pros and cons of this potential union.

Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has reacted to the news that Leeds have parted company with head coach Jesse Marsch, on the eve of Wednesday's match ...

We will find out on the pitch tomorrow and then we need good anticipation on that if they change, and if not, we know what to do. “It's about the match of the Roses,” he said. But if you see the facts, you see the stats, most of the time it doesn't work out well.” “It's definitely a big game in this part of England and it's a big game for us. Asked if it affects his preparations for this week’s back-to-back matches with Leeds, Ten Hag continued: “Definitely and you don't know. “Most of the time, it doesn't work.

Leeds are considering Rayo Vallecano head coach Andoni Iraola, West Brom boss Carlos Corberan and Celtic's Ange Postecoglou, along with other candidates, to ...

He looked at the players and thought that they couldn't play in the way he wanted. They have been in most games this season, but they can't score a goal at the moment. It's high-pressure football and they are full of energy. Now this Leeds team can still play in the way Bielsa wants to play. Forest had two shots on goal in the whole game and Leeds lost the game 1-0. They just couldn't put the ball in the back of the net. Arsenal need a bit of luck to be where they are. They have two big games in four days against United. They couldn't give any more really, but I just cannot believe the decision Leeds have taken. Surely people are watching and thinking that the Leeds players were running around and putting the effort in for the manager. I really thought Leeds were doing alright this season, but they just needed that bit of luck to go their way. It's like they've said lets get these two games out of the way and we'll start our push from there.

In today's Football Daily: Leeds, alarm bells at Morecambe and much more.

“Way back in the early-1960s, the team I played for was drawn in a big cup match. “About 20 years ago on Sunday afternoons, my friend Jim and I would take our three young boys down to the playground at Portercroft School in Sheffield to kick a football around. Towards the end, she turned to our team’s manager and said: ‘He’s not very good, is he?’ Whereupon our manager disagreed, but suggested Tommy should stick to rock-and-roll. Our current understanding is that the appropriate due diligence process is being performed by the EFL through their ‘fit and proper persons’ test and look forward to a decisive response being provided in due course. The big star of the team was Norman Whiteside, who was an actual gentleman as I remember. Skubala went on to confirm that while his role is “exciting” it’s also only “temporary”, with Leeds looking to get someone in the post for the following game on Sunday. Carlos Corberán, currently at West Brom, is favourite to take over his fourth club in 15 minutes, just ahead in the betting of Rayo Vallecano’s Andoni Iraola and the obligatory Bielsa-Poch-Ralph-Ange quartet (see also the odds for Spurs, Southampton, Liverpool, and so on). That year also saw Leeds United whip Manchester United 5-1, in a match which saw Mick Jones score a 15-minute hat-trick and his teammates string together a one-minute-and-20-second 22-pass sequence of contemptuous flicks and sassy feints with cheers of “easy” and “olé” ringing in the air. [sent Jesse Marsch packing](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/feb/06/jesse-marsch-sacked-by-leeds-united) on Monday, through the door marked Y’All Come Back Now Y’Hear, and next go into battle against their biggest foe with U-21 coach and former FA futsal guru Michael Skubala in charge. So there’s probably no point in going too gung-ho, even if the Casemiro-lite diet version of Manchester United they’ll face offers a little hope. Take 1972, to whip a random example out of thin air, a year in which Manchester City got themselves into serious trouble over the distribution of money, in so much as they let Malcolm Allison spend it. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Leeds United are looking for their third manager in less than year after the sacking of Jesse Marsch. After replacing Marcelo Bielsa, the American helped ...

"It's the players who make us seem like we are the best and I am fortunate enough to have players who are showing their level." Carlos Corberan, who took Huddersfield Town to last year's Championship play-off final and could well repeat the feat with West Bromwich Albion this time around, is also linked. And so decisive action was taken following the defeat at Nottingham Forest. And what do they need to do to keep Leeds up? Rayo Vallecano's Andoni Iraola is understood to admired by Orta. There were glimpses of what might have been with a stunning 3-0 win over Chelsea in August. [everything you need to know](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57755471)to make sure you never miss a moment [Everything Leeds - go straight to all the best content](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/leeds-united) His playing experience in the Premier League with Manchester City and his coaching debut at Anderlecht have helped him to charge the Clarets to the top of the Championship. The squad was arguably stronger. Fans saw and thought differently. Who is best suited to take over? He survived against the odds and the board gave him the World Cup break to imbue his footballing philosophy in his squad, but three points from 18 on the other side of it have left United in a relegation battle, which Marsch said they were not involved in after what he called "a complete performance" in the 2-1 loss at Aston Villa three weeks ago.