re: Leeds United 2023/24 Season-long thread: All aboard the HMS Piss tLeague

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Looks like it’s a 24 hour delay on LUTV with the subscription?

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So it’s not surprising that Wöber has said goodbye to a bunch of fellow losers taking advantage of the exit clauses in their contracts, checked the smallprint of his own deal after hearing of interest from Borussia Mönchengladbach, and told Leeds he won’t be hanging around in the Championship either. He only has one career, so he has the right to decide what’s best for it. I only support one football club, so I have the right to think he’s a shitebag.

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While Wöber was preparing to make his debut as a substitute with Leeds 2-0 down in the FA Cup at Cardiff, Marsch, in his own words, “told him he was going in at centre-back, then left-back, then centre-back, then left-back — I probably changed my mind six times because I wanted him to have a good start and put him somewhere that he was most comfortable, which is probably centre-back. But I also know that he can be impactful at left-back in a big way.”

After all that, the king of clarity brought Wöber on in central midfield. This blog isn’t about Marsch, but honest to fricking god, how did that clown keep his job for so long?

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During those initial appearances he played with a calm authority the defence so sorely lacked, telling Robin Koch who to mark, blocking shots before they reached Illan Meslier, and briefly achieving the previously impossible feat of making Junior Firpo look like a left-back.

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Wöber’s early appeal was that he’s a fairly bog-standard, boring, sensible centre-half, so it’s hard to pick out a particular highlight. Seeing off Diego Llorente, I guess, although in years to come I’ll probably look back on Diego’s sheer insanity with more fondness.

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Sam Allardyce spent the week leading up to Newcastle’s visit to Elland Road telling his players to stay on their feet and not dive into tackles. After a bright start in which Bill Ayling put Leeds a goal up, the atmosphere was sucked out of the ground by Pat Bamford’s penalty miss followed by Wöber diving into a tackle to concede the most predictable penalty a minute later.

To be fair to Max, I could barely get through Allardyce’s pressers without zoning out for the sake of my own sanity, so I almost admire him for not listening to a word he said.

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Would Leeds have lost 5-1 and 6-1 in back to back games against Crystal Palace and Liverpool with Wöber in the team? I’m going to say no. It might’ve only been 3-1 and 4-1.

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