Leeds United are enjoying a period of relative stability under Daniel Farke. They are back in the Premier League and have looked more resilient and competitive than most other promoted teams from recent years.
The Whites have made a solid start to life back in the Premier League. They have eight points from their opening seven Premier League games, and are being backed to survive in the top flight at the end of the season.
Leeds’ stable start to the season is a stark contrast to some of the chaos a few established Premier League teams are going through at the start of the 2025/26 campaign.
Two managers have already lost their jobs at Premier League clubs, and one more could soon follow suit as the pressure piles on club hierarchies to act sooner rather than later in the season.
Leeds United relegation rivals, Nottingham Forest, could sack Ange Postecoglou just weeks after appointing him
Forest sacked Nuno Espirito Santo during the last international break following huge fallout with owner Evangelos Marinakis and sporting director Edu.
The Midlands side were doing okay when they sacked Nuno, but Ange Postecoglou’s arrival has failed to make a positive impact on the team.
The former Celtic and Tottenham Hotspur manager is yet to register a win, meaning he has had the worst start of any Forest manager in a century.
He has lost five of the seven games he has been in charge of Forest, and according to the Daily Telegraph, the club are considering sacking him.
Ange Postecoglou’s future at #nffc already in serious doubt after just 24 days in charge. While Postecoglou can point to circumstances such as limited training sessions (Forest also haven’t managed a clean sheet since April 1) the pressure is building https://t.co/sxPMXfvQj4
— John Percy (@JPercyTelegraph) October 3, 2025
Marinakis has little patience for struggling managers, and Postecoglou became the eighth permanent manager at the City Ground since he bought the club from Fawaz Al Hasawi in May 2017.
Forest qualified for Europe last season, but their managerial turmoil has led to instability, and they are now looking like a side who will be battling to survive in the Premier League this term.
Forest and West Ham’s form is Leeds’ ally
Leeds have made a decent start to the season, but the race to the bottom will be tight at the end of the season, and it is not a given that the promoted sides will again go down.
Leeds, Sunderland and Burnely have looked more than decent, but more importantly, established teams such as Forest, West Ham and Brentford have been terrible.
The Hammers have tried to address the situation by bringing in Nuno, replacing Graham Potter. However, Forest’s owner created his own managerial turmoil.
Nuno stabilised Forest, and Marinakis may have made his biggest mistake by getting rid of him.. Bringing in Postecoglou was a horrible decision.
The Australian attacks aggressively, but Nuno built the Forest squad to play the low-block counter-attacking football he prefers.
Leeds should take full advantage of the situation and put more points on the board after the break to pile the pressure on teams such as Forest and West Ham.
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