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Leeds United may find themselves dragged into relegation danger after a poor run of results
It is already beginning to look like a sacking-heavy Premier League season, with four managers already having lost their jobs and others sure to follow as the relegation picture begins to heat up.
West Ham United have recently won back-to-back fixtures under Nuno Espirito Santo, while Sean Dyche and Nottingham Forest won their first match since the opening day of the campaign last time out to drag themselves closer to daylight.
Despite a strong start in the early weeks of the season for the Whites and still just one defeat at home, it is their form away from Elland Road which has caused concern with five defeats from six matches. The fact that they have lost to two of the bottom four in Forest and Burnley has only worsened matters - and the pressure is beginning to mount on Daniel Farke.
Who Leeds’ next manager should be if they sack Daniel Farke
The heat has begun to turn up on Farke with speculation abound that he could become the next Premier League boss to lose his job this season. Not that the German has done a particularly bad job so far this season, with the Whites sat outside the bottom three throughout the campaign, but such is the financial loss from relegation that the club may act soon to give themselves the best possible chance of dragging themselves away from danger.
With a difficult set of fixtures against four of last season’s top six coming up, Farke will need to start picking up results quickly if he is to survive to Christmas or the subsequent January transfer window in the hot-seat for the Yorkshire giants.
If Farke is dismissed, one favourite has emerged who would be the perfect candidate to take over at Elland Road, in the shape of former Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig head coach Marco Rose.
Marco Rose would be ideal candidate to take over at Leeds
Whilst others such as Brendan Rodgers and Gary O’Neil have been speculated as options, Rose would be the ideal candidate to create the most continuity at the club while adding a little more big-match pedigree to help the Whites get over the line and secure their Premier League status come the end of the season.
Rose worked his way up from Lokomotive Leipzig in the German lower tiers to Red Bull Salzburg, to Borussia Monchengladbach and then to Dortmund in 2021. Departing by mutual consent at the end of his first season, he then went on to manage at RB Leipzig for three years before he was sacked in March of this year. The German will, therefore, be looking for a new challenge and may believe this to be the perfect time to try his hand at the Premier League.
Rose’s style of play has been described as dynamic and hungry, a philosophy which appears tailor-made for Leeds particularly at Elland Road, and the Whites have a strong Bundesliga contingent, having signed three players from the German top flight over the summer. The 49-year-old Rose also possesses a European pedigree not yet obtained by Farke, having enjoyed successful runs in both the Champions League and Europa League and winning RB Leipzig the DFB-Pokal and the DFL-Supercup.
This could be a match made in heaven, and Leeds fans will hope Rose could be the man to drag them away from relegation danger.
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