Another good article in one of the rags this morning Norwich 0-3 Leeds: They were once 'Dirty Leeds' but Marcelo Bielsa's team are cleaning up on and off the pitch Leeds cleaned up on the pitch and then cleaned up afterwards off it a tidy performance doesn't just last 90 minutes as far as Marcelo Bielsa is concerned. Goals from Mateusz Klich, Ezgjan Alioski and Pablo Hernandez sealed a comprehensive victory and moved Leeds back to the top of the Championship, ahead on goal difference of Middlesbrough, who are due at Elland Road on Friday. Bielsa, the former Argentina and Chile head coach, is the man who inspired a generation of managers and his 'El Loco' nickname — The Mad One — proves his methods are unconventional. The squad he inherited from Paul Heckingbottom have certainly found that out. Norwich's pink away dressing room was tidied up afterwards on Bielsa's instructions and the man himself pitched in by clearing away leftovers from the away dugout. 'He wants this but players are not the same — they leave things here and there,' said Macedonia midfielder Alioski. 'He wants to change this mentality — that we are clean. After the game you can see how clean it is inside the dressing room. The coach helps also. He cleans there. 'It's really a respect he wants. It's not only football — it's also how the person is outside. He wants us to learn it's not only the football that is important. None of the players have ever worked like this before The Leeds squad realised that their lives would no longer be the same after Bielsa arrived and introduced triple sessions on the training ground for a squad that faded away badly last season following a table-topping start. 'We went in at eight in the morning and we went home at seven or eight in the evening or maybe we sleep in the hotel so we were never at home and we didn't see the family,' Alioski added. 'It was really, really hard work but it was the right shout from the coach.' After a sluggish start, Leeds played expansive, flowing football once they kicked into gear. Klich slotted in the first after Tim Krul could only parry a diving header from Alioski, who embarrassed the 'keeper at his near post five minutes later. Hernandez curled in a third midway through the second half and received enthusiastic praise from Bielsa, via his interpreter. Bielsa does not speak English in public and Alioski revealed he rarely communicates with his players either, preferring to relay instructions through his coaches. 'The boss is the boss and he doesn't speak to the players, he doesn't say something to you on the pitch and it's only the staff,' he said. 'It's something different but it's very interesting also for us players because it's always the staff that come to say something, but it's really nice when he comes to you and says something positive. 'He says, "Bravo, it's good" or "Not good". When he says something to you, you see he really understands something and when he says to do this you know you must adapt.'
I am starting to love this guy coming across as a really strong character. No Messing about. Hope Radz gives him the backing he deserves.
Cleaning up after a game? The All Blacks have been doing this for years. (No smart arsed remarks, guys)
Bielsa is totally different to any other manager/coach I've seen in my lifetime, he obviously has standards & instills his principles into the player's minds & those who work with him, he is actually teaching young wealthy men to become decent citizens. From a football perspective, he thinks totally out of the box. I still think he is a god heaven sent no matter what anybody thinks!
No worries their,think most Leeds fans feel the same,he is the second coming of christ,(tounge in cheek) for if you think about it, a lot of magicians could turn water into wine but could they make last seasons Leeds united team play like Barcelona ?
