NEW signing Max Wober got the full frustrating Leeds United experience after being introduced to the Elland Road crowd.

The defender was introduced on the pitch before Wednesday’s 2-2 home draw with fellow strugglers West Ham United, before witnessing a feisty see-saw Premier League encounter as Leeds once again failed to capitalise on a lead.

On the night the club welcomed the Austrian, it said goodbye to a tearful Mateusz Klich, who was given a guard of honour as he left the pitch.

As Klich heads to the Major Soccer League, Wober is poised to make his Leeds debut at Cardiff City in the Emirates FA Cup on Sunday (2pm).

“The one thing I know about Max is that he’s a leader, that he is very intelligent player and he’s gifted in the sense, he can play multiple positions,” said Leeds head coach Jesse Marsch, who worked with Wober at Red Bull Salzburg.

“I think he’s a potential to play on Sunday. He looks pretty fit. He knows the principles of how we want to play.

"So I’m really hopeful in a lot of ways that he can help us perform at our best.”

Wober, who has signed a four-and-a-half-year deal, saw the Whites give a typical mixed performance which has blighted their efforts to pull away from the lower reaches of the table.

They have managed just two points from their last 12 and failed to put away a struggling West Ham that seemed to be there for the taking.

Rising star Willy Gnonto fired Leeds ahead on 27 minutes with his first goal for the club but they were labouring to get on the front foot and West Ham, who had offered little, turned the game on its head a minute either side of the interval.

Pascal Struijk conceded a penalty which was despatched by Lucas Paqueta then United’s Brenden Aaronson inexplicably passed backwards towards visiting striker Gianluca Scamacca who thumped home a fine shot via an upright.

Leeds were wobbling but the arrival of Klich and Jack Harrison from the bench just after the hour turned the tide.

Harrison slid in Rodrigo whose excellent strike levelled matters with 20 minutes remaining.

Rodrigo was twice denied by goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski and Liam Cooper had a goal-bound effort blocked before firing the rebound over but it was all too little, too late.

Marsch said: “I’m pleased with the way we pushed the game at 2-1 but I’m very frustrated that it took our players to go down a goal at that point in the match to play to their potential and to play with their ability and to play with their fearlessness and belief.

“The first half for me wasn’t good enough in terms of that we played backwards too much, we invited the opponent into the match too much.”

Self-belief is something the departing Klich had in abundance and some of Marsch’s senior players could do with a dose of it.

The Cardiff game gives Marsch the chance to look at other options within the squad.