Confirmed: Senior figure made manager after Leeds exit

Sat 1 July 2017 7:35, UK

By Danny Wright

Oxford United have confirmed that former Leeds senior figure Pep Clotet as their new manager.

A statement on the League One sides’ official website announced that the 40-year-old will replace Mike Appleton in the hot-seat at the Kassam Stadium.

Leeds’ director of football Victor Orta had previously confirmed that Clotet was set to leave his assistant manager role at Elland Road following the overhaul of the backroom staff which saw Thomas Christiansen replace Garry Monk as boss in June.

Clotet will be taking charge of a senior squad for the first time since 2011 when he was the manager of Swedish outfit Halmstad for several months.

After a year at the helm of the Malaga B team, he moved to England to work alongside Michael Laudrup at Swansea, and when the Dane left the Liberty, he struck up a relationship with Monk, who he would then work alongside at Leeds.

The Whites’ backroom set-up has been left in disarray ever since Andrea Radrizzani took full control of the club.

Monk announced that he would quite the Yorkshire giants in May and has since took up the vacancy at Middlesbrough, while Clotet has been joined by Craig Beattie and Darryl Flahavan heading towards the exit.