Journalist drops big late-night news from Leeds as Radz now considers boss 'similar to Tuchel'

Leeds United have been credited with an interest in Paulo Fonseca as a possible replacement for Marcelo Bielsa, according to Gianluigi Longari.

Fonseca has been without a club since last summer after leaving Roma. He has been linked with moves to Crystal Palace and Tottenham during that time, with the 48-year-old described as ‘similar’ to Thomas Tuchel by Henrikh Mkhitaryan.

The Portuguese coach likes to use a 3-4-2-1 system and has won nine major honours during his career with Braga, FC Porto and Shakhtar Donetsk.

Longari took to Twitter late on Wednesday night following Leeds’ heavy 6-0 defeat to Liverpool. The journalist described Bielsa’s position at Elland Road as ‘complicated’ and name-checked Fonseca as a possible target for Andrea Radrizzani and co, stating:

“The position of Bielsa at Leeds is complicated after the hard knockout against Liverpool. Among the names evaluated if things precipitate there is also Fonseca.”

Bielsa knows this Leeds squad like the back of his hand, so making a change in the dugout with just 13 games left in the season could be extremely risky.

Their recent run of marches was always going to be tricky, and looking at Bielsa’s squad, you could say that he is actually doing a good job with the resources available to him. However, making Leeds harder to break down appears to be a necessity as we enter the crunch stage of the season.

He has been without captain Liam Cooper, star midfielder Kalvin Phillips and last season’s top scorer Patrick Bamford in recent months, and getting those three back fit may well be crucial to the club’s hopes of top-flight survival.

March looks set to be a key month for the Whites and there’s no guarantee that Fonseca would turn things around straight away, so we