Guest breakfast debate 12/02/21

Good News.


This is the last guest breakfast debate. Ellandback will be returning to his rightful role as of Monday. I am sure we are all pleased by his return to health.


London calling,


Leeds travel to the capital on Sunday to take on Arsenal. Will this be a case of the London curse striking again? Is now the perfect time to take on lower table opposition?

Leeds are waiting on news on Phillips fitness while we know Rodrigo is out for this game. Arsenal are without Partey and Tierney who have arguably been the Gunners best performers.

Predicitions?



London calling 2.


Jose Mourhino has become the bookies 2-1 favourite in the sack race. Rumours abound that Daniel Levy's first choice to take over from the "Special One" is our own Marcelo Bielsa.

While we can see why El Loco should be linked with every top job going is this something you can see happen? While most managers would be tempted to take this alleged step up Bielsa is more likely to stay at Leeds as that is the right thing to and he wants to see the job through.

Can you see him moving on in the summer though?



Berardi.


Berardi returns to training as of Monday. After being given a 12 month contract after suffering a torn ACL playing on for us after his original contract had ended many saw this as reward for his loyalty.

Where does Berardi fit into the squad? Is he good enough for the Prem? Will he get a chance to play with Struijk covering so well in the CB position?


Would you like to see him given a sentimental run out for us just so he can always say he played in the Premier League? Is Bielsa the type to play Berardi just for the sake of it? Nothing we have seen so far suggests that.

 

You’ve filled in great thanks Hemase, it’s genuinely appreciated

I’m massively concerned over Raphinha leaving in the summer and not even slightly worried about Bielsa. When Bielsa leaves it won’t be for another club, it’s not about the money for him, it’s about the relationship and trust with the owners

 

Morning all.

Many thanks to hemase who's done such a brilliant job on the breakfast debates

 

Not worried all about Raphinha leaving this summer as he's under (a long) contract.

Bielsa on the other hand is free to do as he chooses...we should all be concerned that he might decide he's done enough by giving us 3 years.

 

Player contracts mean bugger all these days, if the price is right a player will be sold regardless.

Bielsa's word and his integrity mean a helluva lot more though, he's almost unique. So if the club continue to back him I think he'll stay on. And if he wants to keep Raphina then we might have a chance of keeping him too.

 

Fair play to you for standing in for Elland. Much appreciated...

 

Thanks @hemase for filling in.

It would be a major shock if Bielsa left mid contract. Doesn't seem that kind of bloke.

As for Raphinha. He is on a long contract so if he chooses to leave then let him go. I don't want anyone at the club who wants out. We'd ask silly money too so we could re-invest that money even if we parted company. Not sure why he would want to leave. It seems a good fit for everyone at the moment.

As I said on the match thread, the couple of times we have faced Arsenal recently have seen us play them off the park completely but not quite managed to convert chances in to a goal. I'd like to think this could be the game where we put them in their place.

 

Well done hemase you’ve put in a good shift for over a week now

Bielsa will be here next season so not worried and he will probably be a few million richer later today as he takes Lille to court, so doesn't need the money.

Have a good feeling about Arsenal a draw is a bonus, a win exceptional but to be fair if we lose I aint bothered, we are safe now

 

Highly important that we don't let standards slip against lower table opposition this weekend, Bielsa will stay as I believe Raphina will.

 

If Raphinia goes it will be on a massive profit. Nothing I have seen from our current owners makes me believe that the money would not be reinvested straight back into the squad.

First choice is Raphinia stays but if he goes and we can reinvest 50 odd million extra into the squad would it be the end of the world?

 

Bielsa was insistant that he signed a one year contract...the club wanted 2 years but he flatly refused.

The ball is now firmly in his court and we all hope he stays for another year.

 

I'm confident of a win on Sunday despite the London whodoo.

We are the in form team and if Kalvin is fit we will be putting out more or less our best 11 where as they are struggling with injuries.

 

Sick of the Raphinah will go comments from a crap media, but lets assume he does go, it will be for a massive profit which will go straight back into the team. Radz said it before when he mentioned doing it like Leicester, and look how they did it. Mharez, Chillwell, Slabhead and more all sold for huge money and invested in even better players that sees them comfortably now in the top 6.

 

But they also sacked the manager that got them in that position and are on their third since. Let's hope we don't repeat that bit.

 

Well done BTEC Ellandback

 

Nice work filling Hemase, well done, can't be easy.

We don't do draws too often but I can see this as one.
We didn't take offers for Phillips so no reason to think we will for Raphinha, not that any are there, atm just column fillers for lazy journalists.

I can't stand Mourinho and would love to see him sacked, then hopefully that will be the last we see of him and his ego.

Be good to see Berardi get 30 minutes in the last game against West Brom, he deserves it.

 

Berardi will bring good experience to the first team squad both from the bench and also in training.

It certainly won't strengthen the starting eleven but it will strengthen the squad depth. I'm sure he will be released this summer and I hope he finds a good match for his last big contract. He's a good guy and I hope he gets a few games with the 23's and a couple of cameo appearances with the first team to help him on his way to negotiate a deal elsewhere.

 

At the beginning of the season two draws against Arsenal would probably have been seen as good results. As things have gone unless they suddenly turn into prime Wenger Arsenal I will be disappointed not to come away with 3 points on Sunday.

 

The day Bielsa leaves will be a sad sad day.....I can't enjoy many other football matches now they just don't excite like Bielsas teams do

He is a genius

 

Echoing the sentiments of all the others, Hemase, I think you have done a brilliant job

Personally, I would love Bielsa to stay for one, maybe two more seasons. In that time I fully expect we would be challenging for Top 6. It would also mean 2 or 3 years of EPL money to say we are properly established before the step down to our next manager and, unfortunately, that is what it will almost certainly be.

If I still put Player posters up in my room, Raphinha would be there - definitely my favourite player atm.However, it has been a while since I did that. Think Ray Hankin was the last one, possibly Arthur Graham Having said that, none of us had heard of Raph 12 months ago - before Doc goes into meldown, I think even Bielsa admitted to having not heard of him (mind you, I suspect Bielsa spends a lot less time on Twitter and Leeds Live than Doc!!). So, massive kudos to Orta and his scouting network and, if Raph did leave we would just have to believe Orta has a few more gems in the background waiting to happen.