By their recent standards, Leeds United’s Championship opponents Coventry City have had an awful start to the season, which has ultimately cost club veteran Mark Robins his position at the club.
Even though the Whites are now outside of the top two, Daniel Farke and his team should still have a bright future as they aim to return to the Premier League this season.
Some of Leeds’ competitors for the top two this season, like as Coventry City, who were a preseason outsider for the top two, cannot say that.
Since taking over as manager of Coventry City in League Two in 2017, Mark Robins has been hailed as a club legend.
He led them to within a penalty shootout of both qualifying for the FA Cup Final the previous season and being promoted to the Premier League.
The Sky Blues have a dismal start to the season, though, with only 15 points thus far and a tie for 22nd place; their most recent defeat was 2-1 at home against Derby County.
Robins’ seven-year tenure at Coventry has come to an end as a result of the loss to the Rams, and the team has made the “difficult” choice to split ways:
Following Robins’ dismissal, Farke is currently the sixth-longest serving manager in the Championship.
With 2802 days from March 2017 to November 2024, Robins was by far the Championship’s longest-serving manager.
When it comes to the longest tenures at their current club, Rams manager Paul Warne has surpassed Robins to take the top spot.
Despite only joining Leeds at the beginning of July 2023, Farke is currently sixth in the division:
Club manager, days in charge
Paul WarneDerby County 776
Middlesbrough’s Michael Carrick 744
Carlos Corberan, 743, West Brom
Rob Edwards, 720 Luton Town
Portsmouth’s John Mousinho 656
Farke, DanielLeeds United491 *Coventry will be the ninth team in this Championship season to have a head coach who has been in control since the conclusion of the previous campaign, according FootballRates.
The Championship is undergoing significant changes, and a promotion candidate is struggling.
It would have been very realistic to assume Coventry would be in the running for the top two before this season began.
They still have plenty of time to regain their position, and they have a team that can achieve it, but who else is a better choice to take Robins’ place?
Finding an appointment that places Coventry in a better position than Robins’ will require some effort on their part.
From a self-centered Leeds perspective, are any of Robins’ January additions worth taking into account to bolster our team? Ben Sheaf or Haji Wright would undoubtedly fit in well with a top two-chasing squad.