So on Monday, Leads confirmed the sake of their head coach Jesse Marsh after less than a year in charge.

Meanwhile, there is also a battle for control going on in the boardroom at the club.

So who is making the decisions?

Where does the power lie?

And who is being lined up to be the next boss?

I'm Mark Chapman. This is the athletic football podcast.

Forrest was a defeat too far. It was a bad afternoon too far.

I think it was a sort of poisonous reaction too far.

I obviously take responsibility and I have to find a way to get more out of us

and make sure that when we're on top of games, we don't lose them.

I think he's got a go. I think he's got to go.

Leeds have confirmed that they have sacked Jesse March.

Obviously the 49s have paid a lot of money already because they're up to 44%. And what the actual final buyout price would be exactly, we'll probably never know.

But needless to say, if Leeds were to get relegated, and there is a serious chance of that this season, and they're not going to be worth half a billion pounds. There's a real opportunity here, or there seems to be a real opportunity here, you know, kind of winning their sales, if they stay up, that Leeds sort of become America's team. The idea was, as in when we buy out Radrazzani, we get a Premier League football club.

I think this manager decision, it's going to be a great indication of the state of play.

So to discuss everything going on at Leeds, we have our Leeds United writer, Phil Hay,

and senior football news reporter Matt Slater.

Give me a timeline of this, first of all, the sacking, Phil, and who made the eventual decision?

You could say it's been going on since October, late October.

I'm a bit like the Grim Reaper on this.

Every time I turn up, people say, oh, Phil Hayes on the Athletic podcast, Leeds must be in crisis again.

But I think the last time we spoke was after the two defeats back to back to Leicester and Philem,

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