Leeds United considering Championship head coach as Jesse Marsch’s job hangs in the balance | OneFootball

West Bromwich Albion head coach Carlos Corberan is re-emerging on the radar of Leeds United as they weigh up whether or not to pull the trigger on current boss Jesse Marsch.

That is according to the Daily Mail, who claim that the Spaniard is on the Whites’ shortlist after they slipped to yet another defeat in the Premier League on Sunday afternoon – this time away at Nottingham Forest.

United are on a seven-match winless run in league action which stretches back to November and before the FIFA World Cup began, and with Leeds 17th in the table their American gaffer could be set for the chop with a double header against Manchester United to come in the next week.

If Andrea Radrizzani is to let Marsch go, then Corberan is being weighed up as a potential successor.

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The 39-year-old joined Leeds back in 2017 as their under-23’s manager, a role which he held for three years as well as being a part of Marcelo Bielsa’s first-team coaching staff for two years from 2018.

He was handed the chance to depart Leeds for Huddersfield Town’s head coach role in 2020, and after getting the Terriers to within 90 minutes of the Premier League last year, he left over the summer and briefly managed Olympiacos in Greece, before returning to England with the Baggies.

Corberan has taken West Brom from the Championship relegation zone to their current position of sixth, having picked up 30 points out of a possible 39 from his 13 league matches in charge, and recently he came into Everton’s thinking for their managerial vacancy, which ended up going to Sean Dyche instead.

It’s fair to say that Corberan’s work at The Hawthorns is not going unnoticed.

He has completely transformed Albion’s fortunes and they are now genuine promotion contenders again, and that is down to his coaching and methods.

Corberan is one of the obvious choices to replace Marsch if he is potted by the Leeds hierarchy because he knows the club and quite a few of the players from when he was a first-team coach at Elland Road are still there.

It would be a big step up from a Championship promotion chase to what is a top flight relegation battle however, but you have to believe that Corberan would be tempted by the job if it became available.