Leeds Confirm Their New Boss, And This Ends The Ange Nonsense About Their Club.

Leeds have made their managerial decision, and it’s a strange but telling one.

They have appointed the former manager of Watford and Valencia, Javi Garcia to be their new boss.

He has signed what the English media term a “flexible contract” which simply means that if he keeps them in the league it’s his and if he doesn’t then he’s naturally gone.

Either way, this ends all this rotating, rampaging guff about Ange going there in the summer and which popped up from Australia this morning. If Garcia works the miracle and keeps Leeds in the league, then he’s got the gig for at least next season.

If he doesn’t then all this is academic because they’ll have dropped into the Championship and there will not exactly be a queue out the door to take the job, especially from Champions League bosses.

Thus ends the great hope of the Scottish media and all those folk who offered to “drive Ange to the airport.” They can save the petrol money for when Morelos and Kent need their rides out of the country at the end of the season.

Garcia will make a right few quid out of this either way, and the Leeds fans are happy to have some form of stability towards the end of the campaign. They are in a right mess, and he’s got a big, big job on his hands. If he pulls it off then frankly he deserves it.

There is no sense of relief here. No sense of closure.

The next job that comes up, he’ll be linked with that, so there’s no closure. And there’s no relief either because this was never more than a distant prospect in spite of the excitement of our hacks and some of the lot across the city who with no evidence other than their fever dreams seemed to think that this was a done deal.

The book is closed on this. We can get on with the cup final stuff.