With pressure growing on Jesse Marsch's shoulders at Leeds United, Carlos Corberan has emerged as a potential future replacement for the American, according to the Daily Mail.

Corberan has made a great impact at West Bromwich Albion this season, but with the automatic promotion picture a long way away and some off-field uncertainty at the club, it is likely that the Spaniard would view Leeds as a step up if offered the job.

Corberan was assistant manager to Marcelo Bielsa at Elland Road before taking on the manager's job at Huddersfield Town, and that previous link to the club would excite supporters and see him fit certain criteria in place at Elland Road.

Here, we have taken a look at three Corberan replacements the Baggies should consider if he was to leave in the coming weeks...

Mark Robins

Robins is a widely respected manager and has performed one of the greatest EFL jobs in the last decade or so in taking Coventry City from League Two to the play-off chasing pack in the second tier.

The Sky Blues have benefitted from some excellent recruitment in recent seasons, in part down to Robins' reputation, but the transition from being a relegation threatened side to one that is targeting a promotion push, in just their third season since promotion from League One, goes to show how smart of an operator Robins is.

The 53-year-old plays an attractive and attack-minded brand of football which should strike a better note with the supporters, than the methods of Valerien Ismael and Steve Bruce.

With Coventry being taken over in the last couple of months, the new ownership may wish to bring in their own manager and accept an approach for Robins, with compensation likely to be required.

Nathan Jones

A strange suggestion considering the Welshman is still manager of Southampton at the time of writing, but Jones has not been welcomed on the South Coast since arriving from Luton Town.

The Saints have lost six of seven league matches under Jones and sit rock bottom of the top-flight.

The supporter base have never taken to Jones and the 49-year-old would probably consider an exit due to the hostility he has dealt with from very early on in his tenure at St Mary's.

It does not feel like a relationship that would put the Saints in a strong position to win promotion next season if they are relegated, suggesting that Jones could be available by the time a Corberan exit could materialise.

Ralph Hasenhuttl

Financially, this one could be difficult to complete, but Ralph Hasenhuttl would be an excellent appointment for Albion if they could pull it off.

The Austrian performed very well at Southampton, before being dismissed and replaced by Jones, and the success of that job is reflecting even more favourably on Hasenhuttl, given their form since he left the club.

 

 

The former RB Leipzig manager kept the Saints away from relegation battles despite competing towards the bottom end of the financial food chain, and he deploys a direct and all action brand of football that Albion supporters would take to.

West Brom's situation at board level could rule this one out, but in aiming to establish themselves back in the top-flight in the long term, Hasenhuttl would be close to the perfect Corberan replacement.