It would also mean he doesn't get the chance to waste any more money on ageing players and his insistence to sign players he has worked with before or ex Portsmouth
I think we all understand one thing - Bates milked this club for all its worth, and actually got someone to pay him £52m for a team going nowhere. Colin is struggling at Leeds because its the first club he's managed where the expectation is as high as it is at the top Prem clubs, and this expectation doesn't just stem from Leeds, it comes from across the football universe. Every team we play outside the Prem, and half the teams in the Prem see Leeds as a massive game and a great scalp if they beat us. Alex Ferguson will always see Leeds as a rival and a team he loves to beat. Colin is starting to understand the enormity of this job, the pressure is HUGE on the manager and the players, and if the players don't have the temperament to cope with wearing the White shirt then Colin won't get the best from them no matter what - and therein lies his problem. Varney is a great example, he seems to have frozen at Elland Road. January will show us how serious GFH are about putting money into the squad.
