The #LUFC Breakfast Debate (Thur 16th Aug)

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Leeds United are ready to swoop for Iran international Morteza Pouraliganji, according to the Tasnim News Agency.

The defender, who can also be utilised in the centre of the park, was due to be joining Trabzonspor in Turkey having left the Qatar outfit Al Sadd, but the two parties were unable to reach an agreement in terms which has left the Iranian in limbo.

Pouraliganji came to prominence in the World Cup in Russia over the summer, where he played every minute of Iran’s campaign, and with his move to the Super Lig falling through there is an opportunity for Marcelo Bielsa to strike.

The Argentine was recently quoted as being likely to bring a player to Elland Road on loan, but he would not need to worry about temporary terms for the out of contract defender.

The fact that Pouraliganji can play at the heart of the defence or as a defensive option in the middle of the park is likely to attract Bielsa to his services, as he is currently short of numbers in both positions in his squad.

The 26-year-old Iranian was linked with Brighton and Hove Albion earlier in the summer. They signed his international teammate Alireza Jabanbakhsh, but could not agree a deal for Pouraliganji.
 
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ellandback said:
Leeds United are ready to swoop for Iran international Morteza Pouraliganji, according to the Tasnim News Agency.

The defender, who can also be utilised in the centre of the park, was due to be joining Trabzonspor in Turkey having left the Qatar outfit Al Sadd, but the two parties were unable to reach an agreement in terms which has left the Iranian in limbo.

Pouraliganji came to prominence in the World Cup in Russia over the summer, where he played every minute of Iran’s campaign, and with his move to the Super Lig falling through there is an opportunity for Marcelo Bielsa to strike.

The Argentine was recently quoted as being likely to bring a player to Elland Road on loan, but he would not need to worry about temporary terms for the out of contract defender.

The fact that Pouraliganji can play at the heart of the defence or as a defensive option in the middle of the park is likely to attract Bielsa to his services, as he is currently short of numbers in both positions in his squad.

The 26-year-old Iranian was linked with Brighton and Hove Albion earlier in the summer. They signed his international teammate Alireza Jabanbakhsh, but could not agree a deal for Pouraliganji.
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Chesh would veto this, as His mate Trump doesn’t like Iran
 
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Doc said:
Sorry mate should have made myself clearer. Bielsa thinks Dallas isnt fast enough for what he wants, so wants to bring in a loan winger so that Harrison and the new guy can fly. He wants to keep Dallas but show him how to play CM, plu she can be a utility player covering LB, WB too
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so that makes Alioski too slow then.perhaps he can teach how to play goalie.
 
ellandback said:
Phil Hay: Say it quietly, but there’s potential for a lasting legacy beyond Bielsa at Leeds United

There is a reluctance, almost a shyness, about Marcelo Bielsa when press conferences take a predictable turn and draw him into discussing the men who single him out as their keenest influence.

Where Pep Guardiola credits part of his coaching acumen to Bielsa, Bielsa hears only self-deprecation distorting Guardiola’s own genius. “In any of his teams I’ve never seen any sign of my traits,” Bielsa says, though the Championship must be questioning how true that really is.

Bielsa devotes himself to improving players, a raison d’etre stretching back 30 years. Any effect he has on the coaching fraternity is, apparently, unintentional if not quite open to debate. It is a quirk of the Argentinian’s career that he has mentored so many exceptional managers without actually mentoring them at all.

Guardiola picks Bielsa’s brain but has never worked with him. Mauricio Pochettino was in Bielsa’s hands more than once as a player, long enough to digest his methods, but did not coach beneath him. Bielsa has overseen an accidental factory, a production line he created without thinking about it;and yet the appreciation of him is such that a letter written by Pochettino helped Bielsa qualify for a work permit from the Football Association in June.

A glance at Bielsa’s backroom staff at Leeds United, the tight clique of lieutenants who bring everything together, shows how little thought he gives to nurturing what, in English terms, could be called the Anfield Bootroom. His assistants are staunchly loyal and professionally dedicated, South Americans who drop everything when Bielsa tips up in a different patch of Europe, but they hold the smallest of profiles and move around silently as Bielsa relocates.

At no stage have his closest allies sought to branch out individually or use their close proximity to Bielsa to manage a club in their own right. When Bielsa quit Marseille, his staff departed en masse. When Lille lost patience with him, they all did likewise. One day it will end for Bielsa at Leeds and the same will happen. The staff around him came to be known in Argentina as the iron circle; difficult to bend when the going is good and inclined to stand fast when the wheels come off. There is a reason why Bielsa commands that loyalty. So many of the individuals who work for him are in the game because of him; opportunists in a healthy sense. Pablo Quiroga taught physical education and coached in amateur football before Bielsa enlisted him with Chile’s national team.

Diego Reyes, more improbably, found a way into the sanctum by tipping up unannounced at Chile’s training complex and asking for work. He and Bielsa met then for the first time. Diego Flores joined the party at Marseille despite a fairly blank track record. Bielsa’s French translator, Salim Lamrani, is a highly-educated, multilingual academic but he is here through a kind stroke of fate: a Marseille supporter who warmed to Bielsa and succeeded in making Bielsa warm to him. In that company, Benoit Delaval – Leeds’ French fitness coach – stands out on the strength of 12 years spent in Lille’s medical department.

Most if not all of that team are in situ for as long as Bielsa is in situ. They come as a package. Which leaves Carlos Corberan, the one existing coach who Bielsa chose to draft into his inner circle a month ago.

Corberan, United’s Under-23s manager, had certain factors in his favour – fluent in Spanish but with a good grasp of English, a season already spent at Elland Road and evidence behind him of productive work with Leeds’ development squad – and, after sizing him up in the early days of pre-season, Bielsa asked him to join his bench


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Keep up Ell. You're 12 hours & 5 minutes behind ..... https://www.not606.com/threads/the-lufc-breakfast-debate-wed-15th-aug.365823/page-3#post-12033460
 
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2020VisionofLeeds said:
That’s what I said, a southerner
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Reminds me of when I moved to Yorkshire in 1990. I called a few people at work 'Southerner', which caused them to go ballistic. Big mistake, but I took it as encouragement! Not the best idea when trying to settle in. :D

The thing is though, Yorkshire is indeed south of Scotland. I must confess that I didn't truly understand the depth of resentment caused by calling a Yorkie southern. Otherwise I'd have used it more! Boom, boom! Oddly enough, I don't think it's as much an insult now, nearly 30 years later. Am I wrong to think that?
 
Whitejock said:
Reminds me of when I moved to Yorkshire in 1990. I called a few people at work 'Southerner', which caused them to go ballistic. Big mistake, but I took it as encouragement! Not the best idea when trying to settle in. :D

The thing is though, Yorkshire is indeed south of Scotland. I must confess that I didn't truly understand the depth of resentment caused by calling a Yorkie southern. Otherwise I'd have used it more! Boom, boom! Oddly enough, I don't think it's as much an insult now, nearly 30 years later. Am I wrong to think that?
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In a word YES
 
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