Leeds came in third in the Championship behind winners Leicester City and Ipswich, missing out on an automatic promotion position. After the Whites defeated Norwich City to advance to the playoff final, they were defeated 1-0 by Southampton on Sunday, May 26, at Wembley. This led Clarke to make light of the Yorkshire club’s bad luck on social media. On May 26, he posted a response on his personal X account to a video of Ipswich’s promotion celebrations in which a song making fun of Leeds was sung: “Don’t say it, don’t say it, don’t say it.”
Leeds began 2024 with a fantastic 15-game unbeaten streak in the Championship that gave them in a great position to finish in the top two and earn automatic promotion. The run began at the beginning of April.But in the last two months of the season, Daniel Farke’s team drastically collapsed; they won just one of their final six games and lost four more to finish third and had to play in the playoffs.The Whites’ untimely decline in performance has come at a high cost, as they now have to endure another season in the second division after losing in the playoff final.
In order to keep under spending limits, Leeds may need to sell some of its important players, which would require the team to make significant roster changes. Farke will have to work hard to ensure that Leeds is competitive enough to qualify for Premier League promotion in 2024–2025.