Ex-Leeds United star Andy Ritchie feels the club should stick with Steve Evans as besides the Scot doing a “great job” last season, it would also help the players, who he thinks must be sick of the instability at Elland Road.
Evans, who took charge of Leeds in October, guided the club to a 13th-place finish, 15 points adrift of the playoffs, when his remit was to keep the Whites clear of the drop zone.
However, Leeds owner Massimo Cellino is yet to offer a new deal to Evans, which would keep him at the club next season, and has avoided telling the former Rotherham United boss his fate.
The Whites suffered a double setback on Friday as their two managerial targets, Darrell Clarke and John Sheridan, were ruled out of replacing Evans.
While Clarke signed a fresh three-year deal with Bristol Rovers, Sheridan quit Oldham Athletic to take charge of Notts County in League Two.
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But Ritchie thinks Leeds should not look beyond Evans as he believes the players are getting sick and tired of adjusting to the ways of a new manager every few months.
“Massimo Cellino’s hunt for the next Leeds United coach continues but I think you’ve got to think first about Steve Evans”, he wrote in his column in the Yorkshire Evening Post.
“I think he has done a great job.
“I keep banging on about this and we keep talking about this continuity and stability at a football club and it seems like it is out of the window again and I think it’s wrong.
“I think we need to have that stability and if we have a new head coach there will be people that he won’t want at the football club, he’ll want to bring new people in and there will be uncertainty again with the players.
“There will be a new regime, it will be a new way of training with most probably a new system in place of how he wants to play.
“I just feel it’s too much change every three or four months and the players must be getting sick of it, I would have thought.”
