Why get Bielsa, when we can get Pochettino, who Bielsa rates higher than any other manager in football besides maybe Pep.
The bold part is what upset me about current United manager. All they do is buy world class players and they can’t improve upon what they have. Only true Top managers can do that and improve average players. Bielsa has spoken and it is time to return United back to the glory days.
It is indeed.
Because Bielsa has his teams playing much open football. Poch had a big club in the PL and has not succeeded. Bielsa has a smaller club and scaring the daylights out of everyone. Everyone wants to watch Leeds now.
).That´s what I was trying to say. It´s the combination of many things that make them good. It´s an eclectic blend of styles - love it!
it’ll be interesting to see how they do over the full season, but I’m not sure how much I subscribe to the whole Bielsa is so intense they dip thing (at least in regards to Leeds). It’s important to note that when Bielsa took over, Leeds were firmly a mid table team, they never really put up any promotion challenges for a fair few seasons. When Bielsa took over, they transformed pretty much overnight into a team that for the main part was pretty dominant. They did have a period where results suffered, but I don’t think it had anything to do with them having tired out or been overcoached, that was the narrative at the time in the media and from a lot of pundits, but truth be told they were still playing excellent football. They had a bit of a keeping problem where they conceded goals they shouldn’t have, and on top of that Norwich and Sheffield went on crazy runs where they just didn’t lose.
Not true, Poch did the same at Southampton and at Spurs. Even Bielsa stated that Spurs wasn’t a big club until after the pochettino project.
Compared to Southampton, yes. But in the overall context of thing, they weren’t before pochettino. They were never part of a top four conversation and were never spoken of about being able to challenge for the title or the champions league until after pochettino.
Amazing watch.
Getting Leeds promoted after (16?) years in the wilderness was massive. Bielsa has done a remarkable job. Think your 3/4 games comment is wide of the mark.
Redknapp finished top four twice in his last three seasons. Yes Poch did a great job there but I feel you’re twisting the narrative a little here.
You both are equally deluded then.
It will not happen. U will get the penalties to get the 4th spot.
Chelsea and City were not big clubs 20 years ago. Not even top 10. If they lost the oil money/ Abramivich walked theyd drop like stones.
Chelsea were a sizeable club to be fair, not massive but they were fairly established to say the least. City on the other hand were an absolute nothing club.
Dont bother talking about Poch with that guy, it's an absolute waste of time.
Agree with you. Chelsea was a big club with United, Arsenal and Liverpool above them. They have had big players and won even European trophies and the Cups under Bates. Yes they became a huge club after Bates sold the club.
Depends how far you go back I guess! Im in my 40s and support base for Chelsea was much smaller than Arsenal Tottenham and West Ham until relatively recently so they were 4th in London. They only started to compete in the top half of the table late 90s really
Leeds are bigger than Spurs...
Yes in the 90s. Late 90s there were starting to win trophies. West Ham never won much after the 80s. Yes the support was bigger for West Ham.
Leeds have been not been as successful after they won the League. Spurs recently and even now are a bigger club than Leeds.
Absolute class.I think his personality has much to do with that. He doesn't like attention, he doesn't like the media, and he picks the cities he will live at. He's a modest man who would live in a simple apartment and go to the training ground by walking, like he normally does.
He also knows that big clubs is where you got more corruption and people who do not apply the same principles he has. I think after managing Argentina he suffered too much being exposed and that's why he prefers smaller clubs.
True, they’re certainly not a big club historically, but results-wise they were there or thereabouts around the time when they were take over by Abromovich. I kind of thought of them as the best of the rest around that time, and a bugger to play against for us.
Yeah, maybe Leeds have a bigger fanbase but on most measures Spurs are bigger I think. Neither of them win much! Spurs last title was 1961!
Yes for the league but they won european trophies and cups in the 90s too.
A lot of managers get championship team promoted. It is what the manager does at the high level of competition that matters more. I have no doubt that Biesla will do well in the premier league with Leeds. He might emulate Pochettino Southampton team success.
I agree with you. This is getting utterly ridiculous. Bielsa has a lower league level team playing extremely entertaining football. It's up and down and very entertaining for the neutrals.
is he a starter for Poland?
