Jamie Carragher believes Leeds United’s side under David O’Leary may be overrated. He’s based that on the fact that we didn’t win anything.
Daniel Farke has a marvellous opportunity to cement himself and the club as Premier League mainstays in the coming months of this season.
It’ll be the first time we can confidently say that since David O’Leary was in charge. Of course, an incredible time for Leeds, but one where you’re left wondering how that side didn’t win anything.
“This problem” – Jamie Carragher frustrated at Leeds United, David O’Leary nostalgia amid Mauricio Pochettino verdict
Jamie Carragher doesn’t believe that sides like O’Leary’s Leeds and others, including Mauricio Pochettino’s Tottenham, should be getting the rose-tinted nostalgia that seems to be given to them.
The lack of silverware and actual success is something that his Liverpool side enjoyed. As a result, Carragher looks at the lack thereof for Leeds and others with less approval.
Speaking about Pochettino’s legacy as he takes the Man Utd job, Carragher thinks too much is made of these sides, naming Leeds.
“I have this problem, and maybe it goes back to my Liverpool days,” Carragher said on The Overlap Daily. “There are teams that get spoken about, Poch’s Tottenham, Keegan’s Newcastle, David O’Leary’s Leeds.
“At the time, they’re these young energetic teams, everyone loved the football. They never won one trophy.
“Maybe sometimes when people look back at it, in the Liverpool teams I played in, we won everything except the league, so they’ll say ‘you didn’t win the league’.
“I’m thinking these teams get talked about left, right and centre, and didn’t win one trophy, they didn’t win anything. They never got over the line in big games and I still hear these teams 20 years later being spoken about.”
Can Daniel Farke match and surpass David O’Leary’s Leeds United tenure?
Silverware is the big one for Leeds. Beyond the two Championship trophies under Farke and Marcelo Bielsa, our last major honour was in 1992.
O’Leary’s side absolutely should have had some silverware to show for some of the football we were playing around that time. And that’s what Carragher outlines when looking to Pochettino going in at Man Utd.
Looking at Farke now, that sort of achievement would propel him into serious historic conversations at Elland Road.
Our run to the FA Cup semi-final last season shows it is doable with a good draw and good form. The 49ers’ ambition should be to make something like this happen, rather than just being happy to consolidate.
