da pinnacle： According to reports in the Daily Mail, Bolton Wanderers boss Phil Parkinson has emerged as frontrunner to succeed Garry Monk as Leeds United manager.
da pixbet： The Yorkshire outfit were shocked by the resignation of Monk last month with the 38-year-old and new owner Andrea Radrizzani unable to come to an agreement over extending his initial 12-month rolling contract, and it means the Whites are looking for their seventh permanent manager in just the last three years.
After a number of disappointing seasons of finishing mid-table in the Championship, Leeds found themselves in the play-off positions for the majority of the campaign before a poor run of form at the end of the season saw them finish seventh.
Radrizzani will be aware that his new man needs to be able to build on that progress if the club are to finally return to the Premier League for the first time since 2004.
Here are three reasons Leeds must not appoint Parkinson as their new manager…
Wasted opportunity
Having only narrowly missed out on the play-off positions and with key players like Chris Wood and Pontus Jansson in their ranks as well as a new owner, it seems like a great opportunity for Leeds to make a statement and try and appoint a high-profile or experienced manager at this level.
If they do, the new candidate would be able to build on the progress of this season and add new faces to the squad to freshen it up and have another crack at promotion.
Parkinson certainly wouldn’t fit under that criteria and with all due respect, he would probably be something of an underwhelming appointment for the supporters and the players.
Championship experience
While he may have won promotion on three occasions – once from League Two and twice from League One – Parkinson has little experience and success of managing in the Championship.
When he has with Hull City and Charlton Athletic he didn’t fare too well, only winning four league matches with the Tigers before being sacked in December 2006 with the club in the relegation zone.
Then he was handed the job with the Addicks on a permanent basis in December 2008 despite failing to win any of eight caretaker matches in charge previously, but he couldn’t prevent the Londoners suffering relegation to third tier for the first time in nearly 30 years.
Expectations
While he did brilliantly with Bolton this season and finally succeeded in bringing Bradford City back to League One in 2013, Parkinson’s spells in charge of Hull City and Charlton are worrying.
The 49-year-old would have been under pressure to get results at both clubs but that is nothing to what would be expected of him at Elland Road.
The passionate supporters travel in their thousands away from home and demand and deserve good performances, and it takes a strong manager to deal with that.
Question marks certainly remain over whether Parkinson has the character and charisma required to be a success with Leeds.
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