8 Things Uwe Rosler Must Do This Season?

It is almost inevitable that every fan of Leeds United will have different expectations/targets that they expect Uwe Rosler to achieve. Some seem to expect Uwe Rosler to get Leeds into the top 6, others top half etc and some fans don't really have any specific targets for Rosler. In my opinion there are 7 things Uwe Rosler must do, for this season to be classed as a success and most importantly progress on the last 4 seasons. These are;

1. Improve the style of football
The best football Leeds have played in the last few years surprisingly was between September and November 2014 under Neil Redfearn and Darko Milanic. Although results didn't go our way all the time Leeds put in some good performances and played against some of the top teams from last season. There were games against Sheffield Wednesday, Wolves and Rotherham where we played very well but the small margins went against us and we didn't win any of those three. Of course there were some games where we played badly, however the football we played against Bournemouth and Huddersfield during this spell was fantastic to watch and the best I had seen for years. Unfortunately the style appeared to have changed under Redfearn and has not changed back so far under Rosler. The main style now appears to be a long ball from Cooper, Bamba or Silvestri to Chris Wood and most of the time it hasn't worked well. A more possession based style would be nice to watch along with more efforts at goal, that should in my opinion be one of Uwe's first aims, it won't happen overnight I admit but it should be achievable by January.

2. Find Our Best Formation
We have so far tried 4-4-2 and 4-3-3. I have mentioned 3-5-2 a few times along with 4-2-3-1, something which I criticised Redfearn for last season was that it took him too long in my opinion to stop using the 4-4-2 or trying something different to the 4-4-2 (with 4 central midfielders being played rather than 2 central midfielders and 2 wingers.) When Redfearn did test formations results improved and he found his best formation and we improved results wise after this as well. I am not sure what our best formation is but I am not sure we have found it yet.

3. Start our Young Stars
Murphy, Mowatt and Cook need to start games together, the feature of last season was that from January onwards these three where often in the same side and results improved with these 3 being a huge part of that. So far, Mowatt and Murphy have been on the bench a couple of times with Tom Adeyemi starting instead. The three started together on Saturday and we won, I hope Tom Adeyemi will improve and I think he will but at the moment those three should be starting games together instead in my opinion.

4. Don't let Jordan Botaka Disappear into Obscurity
Last season Leeds signed a player who was nicknamed the heir to Zico, Adryan. Then we played Birmingham City away and I was amazed that he didn't play or make his debut on that day. In fact he didn't start playing for Leeds until October and at first he played superbly and became one of our key players. However, after a few bad games before new year, things changed, after new year Adryan very rarely played for Leeds. Jordan Botaka, is another player who appears a very good talent and hopefully he will be a success. However, I can't believe he is yet to make his debut (exactly as I was with Adryan last year), it's following the same pattern as it did for Adryan. Lessons from the Adryan loan deal that we can use for making Botaka a good signing: at least give him some game time to start with and put him in the starting 11 if others don't perform and bad results allow us to make the changes, play the player where their best position is and don't leave him out of the match day squad if he has a few bad games etc. I felt sorry for Adryan last season and I thought he did ok at Leeds.

5. Get more service to Chris Wood
I think if Rosler tells Berardi and Taylor to get forward more often Chris Wood will get more chances. Sam Byram and Stuart Dallas are a little out of form but will improve in my opinion. Botaka as mentioned before could help solve this problem as well.

6. Have a Cup Run
Cup runs are fantastic and I think we should be looking to get into at least the 5th round or quarter finals of the FA Cup (if we have a nice cup draw). I think we should put our full team out, other teams will probably not do this and that will give us a huge chance to have a good FA Cup run.

7. Always ensure Leeds are closer to the top 6 than the bottom 3.
The Championship is very competitive, win a couple of games and you can be looking at the play-offs. Lose a couple and you could get dragged into a relegation battle. While promotion may not be a realistic prospect this season we do not need to get dragged into another relegation battle.

8. Get Leeds into the top 10
If Uwe does all the 7 things I mentioned then this is possible and I would without doubt class the season as being a huge success.