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Fans label Jesse Marsch as ‘delusional’ as Simon Jordan goes in on him over his time at Leeds

Fans have took to label Jesse Marsch as ‘delusional’ as podcast host Simon Jordan goes in on him over his time at Leeds United.

He recalls the realisation of how much tougher it was going to be managed Leeds after seeing how tired his players look after first meeting them, he does however regret saying Marcelo Bielsa “overtrained” them.

Marsch was in charge at Leeds just over a year, and managed to keep them from Premier League relegation in 2021-22, however, he left them in a position where those who succeeded him were unable to rescue them from when he was sacked in February 2023.

Marsch says to Jordan: “Normally when you watch players on television, they look like strong men in the right physical environment, but when you meet them in person you see that they’re still kids and young men at heart – Leeds was the opposite.

“When I arrived the players looked gaunt, tired and defeated. They looked like a group that was going to need a lot of help for them to be what I wanted them to be.

“The first feeling I had when I first met them was that it was going to be a much more difficult task than I had imagined.

“I think me saying on talkSPORT that the team was overtrained was a mistake,” he admitted. “I complimented Marcelo Bielsa a thousand times publicly because I loved the way he played, and I learned from him.

“When I said that the team was overtrained it wasn’t a pure indictment on Marcelo, I just thought of it as a fact. The team had been through a lot physically and there were a lot of injuries.

“Of all the things I said, I didn’t even think that the overtraining was up for debate – I thought it was a known thing. I later realised that I didn’t mean to incite the public in that manner because I never wanted it to be me against Marcelo. I knew the Leeds community loved Bielsa.

“When I was interviewing for the role, I talked about the similarities between Marcelo and myself because, in so many ways at that time, Leeds United was Marcelo Bielsa.”

Marsch has remained out of work since his exit from Leeds.

Back in May 2023, Simon Jordan claimed that Leeds should have got rid of Jesse Marsch earlier, saying the team ‘stumbled’ to stay up under him last season.

‘You got away last year, you got away on the last game of the season and you needed to have done better,’ Jordan said.

‘And a lot of credit was attributed to Jesse Marsch. They stumbled across the line only simply because other sides were slightly worse in the running and that Brentford were on the beach on the last game of the season, otherwise they would have got relegated last year.

‘So this attribution of success to Jesse March, which then carried him into the following season, I think was a fool’s errand.

‘They should have changed in the summer of last year, gone with a manager that was capable of taking leads to better heights than operating in the same position that they did the previous year. And all roads lead to the position that is in now.’

Fans label Jesse Marsch as ‘delusional’ as Simon Jordan goes in on him over his time at Leeds…

@DebsHLUFC: Kin ell, you believe your own hype more than I realised. We were shocking. Awful to watch. Results showed that but let’s look at the metrics 🤣🤣🤣 You should be a politician

@davee_evans: The worst season of football I have ever seen at Leeds under Marsch. Hated almost every minute of it.

@aid1793: Served up hot garbage on a weekly basis. Sucked all the joy out of going to Elland Road and took away the players desire on the pitch. Lazy, slow and undid all of Bielsa’s fitness work.

@LeedsWoody1919: He’s doing the rounds trying to get another job isn’t he 😭

@Gill_W_: Great interview this. Simon doesn’t mince his words 😂

@royceylufc: The key thing to remember about Jesse Marsch is that he is no longer manager of Leeds United. Onwards. #lufc

@biteyourlegs: I struggle to reconcile how they thought this man was a better option than Marcelo Bielsa

@Gareth_wardle: Christ, I hope he gets another top job so he can do the exact same with them and prove us all right that he does in fact not know ball.and got his coaching badges from the bottom of a kellogs box

@ChickenStreet: Should have gone after the Fulham game and before the Liverpool game. Such a backwards step appointment

@G_D_Hume: I never wanted Bielsa to go but I liked how he talked when he came in but he couldn’t get results, the players lost fitness under his training, they lost the ability to pass under pressure, and very much was a man out of his depths at a club that comes with pressure to deliver.

@eddervish: Anyone scrutinising what he says and what happened at Leeds, won’t touch him with a barge poll. In Jesse’s world he thinks he is putting himself in the shop window, when actually he’s talking himself out of work.

@maccathebomb: Absolutely horrific, the nonsense scale is through the roof. Probably set the club back 10yrs, a really dismal time to be a Leeds fan.

@dmilward87: Takes some doing to make Simon Jordan sound like the most knowledgeable and least egotistical person in the room. Credit where it’s due @jessemarsch you managed it.

@brian_gayle92: Translated. No one will employ me because of my last shitshow, so I need to spread the word that I’m really great so I can get a job. @talkSPORT Any vacancies?

@tomairstone: Rather have Dave hockoday than this plonker. Worst manager in my lifetime and we’ve had some shockers!

@AndrewE83269035: What a clown, thanks you @Sjopinion10 for exposing him for what he destroyed. We lost 2 great players and they never replaced them correctly. We lacked full backs of substance and defensive qualities and suffered confidence and results as a consequence

@JonLaud1: Absolute clown. He should have been sacked much, much earlier. Probably after the Brentford game at the end of the previous season where we stayed up despite his ridiculous tactics, largely because the players ignored them.

@sdavo07: He was useless let’s leave it at that.

@KeithT3103: This is taking delusion to a whole new level!

@marcyeboah: Look at the metrics. 2 wins in 17 PL games suggested he was not going in the right direction. Should have been sacked aftwr Leicester away, certainly before world cup

@superleedsutd2: Silly man! Wtf is he on cos I want some!

@Ben514654074542: It’s a results based industry and he wasn’t getting the results. He made them play so narrow it was unbelievable.

@nthnrbsn: What a deluded fucking idiot. “Passed the eye test” – if the test was putting bleach in your eyes, yeah. Ruined everything Bielsa had built.

@MaynardM: Three points and zero wins in his last 7 matches is “trending in the right direction”? Good grief.

@ashleighlaurenn: What an insufferable prick

@OliverMedd7: What an absolute gob shite. Complete inept wanker ruined everything Bielsa built

@mattym2011: wtf is he on about 😂 you were shite & winning at Anfield saved your job for a bit longer

@j0shuav2: He had won 2 of his last 17 games in charge, and had picked up 3 points from 7 games. Any manager barring Paul Heckingbottom could have done better than that.

@leahwalx: Still delulu then 😂

@AlfieLS11: This fella is properly, properly deluded

@DebsHLUFC: Haaaaaa! We were shit! Trending in the right direction – 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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