Journalist claims 6ft 4in Leeds man is very frustrated under Daniel Farke

This season is arguably panning out in just the way that Leeds United manager, Daniel Farke, planned it.

The German took over the squad whilst it was in disarray in terms of the amount of players that needed to be bought or sold because of the financial implications of relegation from the Premier League to the Championship.

Indeed, the season was already a few games old and players were still heading out of Elland Road, so it’s no wonder it took the manager a few weeks to get things back on an even keel.

The odd bad result notwithstanding, Leeds have been one of the most consistent teams in the English second-tier during 2023/24 and, at the time of writing, are at the top of the pile, albeit long-time leaders, Leicester City, are on the same points but have a game in hand.

Leeds ace Charlie Cresswell remains frustrated at lack of playing time

Ipswich are only a point behind so the race for automatic promotion is likely to be one that goes right to the wire.

Charlie Cresswell can only dream about being involved for the all whites at this point of the campaign.

The young centre-back has barely featured for Leeds this year, and journalist Beren Cross believes that Cresswell has become incredibly frustrated by the situation.

“It’s been a really frustrating year for Charlie. Everybody rates him, everybody knows he’s a really good centre-back and given what he did at Millwall last season, as a mainstay in a team that got to within a kick of the play-offs, there would have been no qualms at all about him starting regularly for Leeds,” he said to NewsAtDen.

“It’s just unfortunate for him that he’s the fourth-choice centre-back in the best defence in the league. So whether it was Rodon and Struijk in the first half of the season or Rodon