Thomas Christiansen was well liked at Leeds United and his time in charge of the club certainly wasn’t a disaster.
The second half of the manager’s first season at Elland Road saw a poor run of form which hampered efforts to get promotion to the Premier League. That led to those in charge at Leeds deciding a new path forward was needed, with Christiansen shown the door.
Since then he’s been working to pick up coaching experience, watching others in action.
He almost took over at AEK Athens, but lost out to another candidate, explaining: “I was actually in Greece and got it all negotiated. The vice president and the sports director wanted me, but it is the president who decides and he would have Manolo Jimenez who they hired instead.”
Then in February of this year he was linked with taking over at Brondby, and spoke about a desire to manage in Danish football.
That role didn’t end up his either, but now the former Leeds boss has a club.
Belgian club Union Saint-Gilloise have announced his arrival on a two year deal, with an option for a third year should things go well for the manager.
Union SG finished 3rd last year in Belgium’s second tier. They’re owned by Tony Bloom, who is also in charge at Brighton & Hove Albion.
