I believe the medication was to blame for my contemplation !

Leeds are in termoil on the pitch and given their precarious position i can see why they have made a change. However, 4 games is such a short period it might not be possible to avoid the drop. In the past one of big Sam's strengths is his ability to strengthen key areas with better players. He is not going to be able to do this via the transfer window so unless Gracia has not been picking the best 11 players at Leeds this will not be an easy job for Sam. Leeds were one of the teams i thought would go down at the start of the season on the back of selling Kalvin Phillips to Man City and Raphina to Barcelona and not really strengthening their squad and i still think they will go down.

Consumption of Grolsch AFTER the contemplation.

Javi Gracia has defended his record at Leeds, 11 pts from 11 games more than attained by some of the other clubs in the relegation struggle over the same amount of games.

In actual fact when Gracia joined Leeds they were 19th, he departed with them in 17th place.
The fact that Leeds were defeated in 4 of their last 5 games conceding 18 goals in the process was probably the reason he was dismissed.

Edited by Willo (04 May 2023 12.51pm)

Leeds are almost dead in the water so if he can keep them in the Premier League it's worth over £100m to Leeds so £2.5m to the man who performed the miracle is comparatively cheap

It wouldn't matter if the offer him 25m, they are going down, along with Everton and obviously Southampton

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