Marcelo Bielsa set to leave Leeds with Jesse Marsch in line to replace him

Marcelo Bielsa is set to leave Leeds after Saturday’s 4-0 home defeat by Tottenham, with the club close to appointing the former RB Leipzig manager Jesse Marsch as his replacement.

Lawyers are in talks over the departure of Bielsa, who has overseen a run of four straight Premier League defeats in which Leeds have conceded 17 goals. The club are firmly in a relegation battle, two points ahead of third-bottom Burnley having played two games more.

Marsch, a former United States midfielder, left Leipzig by mutual consent last December five months after taking charge. He was previously at Red Bull Salzburg, where he won two Austrian league titles and two domestic cups.

Bielsa earned hero status at Leeds by taking the club into the Premier League as champions in 2020 with an attractive brand of football and enhanced that with a ninth-placed finish last season. But this campaign has been markedly less successful, hampered by injuries to key players such as Patrick Bamford and Kalvin Phillips.

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