"Mess" - Jesse Marsch takes aim at Andre Radrizzani and Leeds United hierarchy | OneFootball

Jesse Marsch has taken aim at Andrea Radrizzani, Victor Orta, and the rest of the former Elland Road hierarchy as he explained why he felt things went so badly for him during his spell as Leeds United manager.

The American has got his first job back in football management after leaving Elland Road in February 2023. He was appointed as the new head coach of the Canadian Men's national team.

Marsch had been linked with taking over as the boss of his home nation's side, an idea that he played down, and he was also reportedly in line to become the next manager of South Korea.

Those latter two links didn't pan out, and now Marsch finds himself back where he wanted to be: leading a football team.

Between him departing from Yorkshire and being announced as the Canada boss, Marsch did some work in the media, primarily for CBS Sports.

He helped with some of the Champions League coverage that the broadcaster put out, and he's recently used the platform to express his feelings on what went on at Elland Road during his time there, and why things panned out the way that they did.

Jesse Marsch spells out "mess" at Leeds United

Speaking on CBS Sports Golazo, the former RB Leipzig and Red Bull Salzburg manager said that he inherited: "a mess," when he arrived at Leeds, in part because of the financial state that the club was in, hinting at former owner Radrizzani and ex-sporting director Orta as people to potentially blame.

"It’s almost like the higher that I went the more disappointed I was in the way that things operated," Marsch said. "People think Leeds is such a big club but if you peel the veil away, we were a club that was in disarray when I got there.

“It was financially a mess and it then made managing everything very difficult. But I decided to take that on and I tried to do the best I could with it. It was a mess before I got there and shortly after I left it was a mess again."

Jesse Marsch's record as Leeds manager

The American definitely didn't have the best spell of his career at Leeds, as is evident from those quotes. The 50-year-old took charge of just 37 games, one of the shorter spells in the club's 100+ year history, and the wins and losses show why he was eventually let go in early 2019.

The one memorable moment that may sit with fans outside of Leeds, as well as in it, from his reign was the win at Anfield. Crysencio Summerville's late winner ended a run of Liverpool not losing at home, in front of a crowd, in over half of a decade.

Marsch should shoulder some blame for Leeds failure

The club was not in brilliant hands when the 50-year-old was at Elland Road; that is a statement that would be hard to refute for even the most ardent of Marsch dislikers.

But he was given the freedom to bring in a lot of his own players - the likes of Brenden Aaronson, Max Wober, Marco Roca and Rasmus Kristensen come to mind.

All of these players are not part of the squad that will play at Wembley on Sunday for the chance to return to the Premier League, because Daniel Farke deemed them to be surplus to requirements when he came in.

That reflects really poorly on Marsch and his recruitment. His effective predecessor, discounting the even shorter tenures of Javi Garcia and Sam Allardyce, has decided that the American's signings are not up to it.