Ex-Leeds United favourite reveals Whites manager job interest and expectation with Daniel Farke
Had they looked for something a little different of late, a former Whites favourite perhaps, ex-Leeds assistant manager Gus Poyet wonders if it might have been him. Now 55 and the manager of the Greece national team, Poyet insists he never actually “applied” to be the club’s next manager but certainly put the feelers out.
Yet in new boss Daniel Farke, Poyet is sitting happy believing Leeds have ultimately employed the right man to take his former club which he still has lots of love for back to the promised land.
Sixteen years have passed since Poyet ended just over one year at Elland Road as Dennis Wise’s assistant to become first team coach under boss Juande Ramos at Tottenham Hotspur. Poyet, who left with Leeds in League One, sometimes thinks what life would have been like had he stayed a little longer.
Yet the move offered an instant jump to the Premier League and another early chapter in a managerial career that has since featured spells in outright charge of Brighton, Sunderland, AEK Athens, Real Betis, Shanghai Shenhua, Bordeaux, Universidad Católica and now Greece.
Upon leaving the English game to take over at AEK in 2015, Poyet always planned to come back. Eight years later, he hasn’t. But that hasn’t stopped Poyet from looking, including enquiring about an Elland Road return shortly before the club eventually looked to Marcelo Bielsa and also amid the turmoil of last season, from which Poyet thinks Leeds have now found just the man to help them bounce back.
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