Good Morning Everyone Bielsa has revealed that he will stick to the same starting line up that beat Stoke and Derby. Thinking out loud, the levels of intensity that the lads have shown over the last few games will surely mean that they'll get tired more quickly? Thoughts? Leeds have been drawn at home to Preston in the next round of the Carabao Cup! It means we’ll play Swansea, Norwich, Preston and Middlesbrough in the space of 10 days. Let's hope we see some squad rotation! According the the latest media speculation, Leeds are eyeing loan moves for t Tottenham midfielder Luke Amos. The 21 year-old plays a similar role to Phillips. He started for Spurs against Barcelona a week or so ago, helping set up a goal and generally dictating play from midfield. Posh playmaker Marcus Maddison could finally be on his way to Elland Road! Posh chief Darragh MacAnthony has confirmed that a loan-to-buy deal could be a possibility for the player who was transfer listed in the summer. Peterborough Today now suggests that Leeds United are leading the race for the 24-year-old. West Brom and Aston Villa are also in the mix.
Good Morning to the most informative writer around it is always a pleasure reading you notes Matt and I am writing this from a sunny Bardsey I never thought I would ever say this but can Pontus settle into Bielsas style of play I still prefer him to Berardi who is too head strong for me .Rumour now says Foyth will be signed before the end of the loan window along with Madison.I see that Huth was also in Leeds yesterdayI can't see him in this system either Looks like Snoddy will rejoin Villa who are desperate to get rid of McContract who is on 45k a week to stay at home! No we don't want him back thank you
Lots of paper talk but Maddison is up against Villa and WBA both on parachute money. Yes Villa need to balance the books but expect Grealish to go out on loan, so lets see. Another player touted is Liverpool's Marko Grujic as Klopp spoke to Leeds about him. Grujic has turned down Cardiff and WBA So now it seems 2 Argentian players at Spurs? Another biggy started yesterday when it was revealed a move to Trabsonspoor fell through and Iranian International Morteza Pouraliganji came on the radar. This is a player Brighton tried to sign last season for £13m, but he's now a freebie and thinks Leeds may be the place under Bielsa. He played in every game of the recent WC? Bielsa said last night there may be one or two loans coming in but not sure when or if they happen? Stop worrying about getting tired and listen to what Bielsa says about high impact football. 'When its done properly a player can run his heart out for 50 games per season. Done properly it means playing well and when a player plays well there is no fatigue because fatigue is in the head and a state of mind. If you lose you are exhausted after the game but if you win you feel fresh' Hey he knows what hes doing and its still early in the season and we have half a dozen fresh faces on the bench getting fitter to play his style by the week. As far as Preston goes and the 4 big games in 10 days: bet nobody says we have only played bottom feeders so far
Good morning Matt & everyone Once again Bielsa thinking outside the box. How many other managers reveal their line-up 48 hours prior to a game? We have a really tough schedule until the end of August then the majortity of our players can take in a short-break during the international week in early September just like myself with my busy workload/social life :-D
I love the way he announces his line ups in advance It’s almost like he thinks it’s the other team that needs to worry about Leeds and we can just get on with playing as we want to
Morning all Love the fact Bielsa announces the lineup a few days prior to the match None of this we'll keep them guessing lark
Morning everyone Thirty hours fifteen minutes to go Maddison would be hell of a capture if we could get him,don't know anything about Pouraliganji or Grujic, but if Bielsa wants to look at them they must be good,isn't it nice that were no longer looking at seria B or lower,what a transformation at Elland Rd.
It just goes to show what confidence this guy has instilled not only in the players, but management & fans alike, it's like he is sticking two fingers up at the opposition saying come on do your best but it won't be good enough.the opposition managers must be thinking what the heck.
Morning all... I love having a coach/manager who puts his best team out, tells them you know what you need to do and then let’s the opposition worry about it. We don’t need to change our style, let others worry, on paper Rotherham will need 13 players to shackle us. In regards to fitness, you’d hope Rotherham would be less of a test, if we have more possession we waste less energy, we’ll only tire if we’re constantly pressuring them.
i don't think we need to worry about the players getting tired They're now doing three sessions a week till 7.30 as opposed to one session till midday 90 minutes actual match play is literally like a stroll in the park in comparison
Good morning John Boy, good morning Mary Ellen. After many years isnt it great to have pressers worth listening to. Weve had years of the same stupid soundbites from managers talking for a half hour and saying noting. All Bielsas are innovative and well worth a listen
Forza the other night Bielsa said the 3 sessions were down to two now that the season has started and he says they have more time to talk now? Sounds like he gives lectures and individual chats which is brilliant. Last season we had around 5 players that said they hadn't spoken to the manager for a few weeks. Klich never spoke to Thomas at all Bielsa also said that he knew how Rotherham played as he had watched videos of their last games and said it will be good to meet an arial challenge as we expect long balls over the top. Now is he playing mind games too???
I think the difference is we have a coach who actually enjoys his job, an aging coach who has a bit of a point to prove and is on a mission. It sounds like he enjoys being on the training ground
Sounds like the players are enjoying it too and are buying into it Even the ones who know 48 hours in advance that they're not in the starting XI realise that by having a relatively small close knit squad they're never far away from being selected in future
Who are Bielsa's assistants? please log in to view this image Pablo Quiroga - assistant Quiroga, a fellow Argentinian who was born near Buenos Aires, has been a long-time ally of Bielsa’s in club football. Having worked with him first with Chile’s national team, he was part of Bielsa’s staff at Athletic Bilbao, Marseille and Lille and a guaranteed inclusion in his corp at Leeds United. Now 36, Quiroga started out as a PE teacher and had only minor experience in amateur football before Bielsa first enlisted him as his “virtual blackboard”, to quote one South American journalist. His talent is in video analysis. Diego Reyes - assistant Chilean Reyes, 37, is an out-and-out coach and the man who took the initial training sessions at Lille after Bielsa’s appointment as manager. The pair have been together since 2008 when Bielsa drafted him into the fold with Chile and he is arguably Bielsa’s most trusted lieutenant. The story went that an unknown Reyes turned up at the complex where Chile were training and asked for work. Bielsa gave him video clips to edit and their relationship developed quickly to the point where Reyes became part of the Argentinian’s ‘iron circle’ of assistants. He has followed the 63-year-old to every job since. Diego Flores - assistant A technical coach who has been on the scene for a considerably shorter time than Quiroga and Reyes. Flores, also 37, linked up with Bielsa for the first time at Marseille after leaving Argentina to study in Ireland. Bielsa kept him in tow when he took the head coach’s position at Lille and brought him to England too. Carlos Corberan - first team coach/development coach Very prominent in Bielsa’s technical area throughout the summer and since the start of the season. Corberan, who was recruited to coach Leeds’ Under-23s last season, has been moulded into something of a go-between at Thorp Arch. United say he is “integral to the first-team set-up” - as proven by the fact that he has been present at every game and involved in Bielsa’s training sessions - but will retain “special responsibility for creating a pathway for the Under-23s and Under-18s, and ensuring consistency of football philosophy”. Corberan gained managerial experience in Cyprus and Middle East but is better known in his homeland of Spain for a long stint as Villarreal’s number two. He has the advantage of being able to speak Spanish and English. Salim Lamrani - translator Lamrani is not, or was not, a football man by trade. A multilingual university lecturer specialising in Iberian and Latin American Studies, he has written at length about relations between Cuba and the United States and was described in one newspaper as being “one of France’s best connoisseurs on Cuba”. He appeared alongside Bielsa at Lille, accompanying the Argentinian to every press conference and working as his translator. Lamrani is a lifelong Marseille supporter and took a keen interest in Bielsa’s work during his time as head coach there, writing once how Bielsa had “offered the French championship the most beautiful football of the last 20 years.” The pair met in South America while Lamrani was lecturing and Bielsa invited the Frenchman to join him at Lille where he provided translation for both Bielsa and some of the players. Bielsa has a certain way with the media, refusing all one-on-one interviews in the belief that no individual writer deserves to hear more from him than any other. He is in the process of learning English but Lamrani, on Bielsa’s first appointment in this country, has had the job of getting his message across, sitting with him at all of his pre-match and post-match press conferences. Marcos Abad - goalkeeping coach Drafted in after the appointment of Thomas Christiansen, replacing Darryl Flahavan, and survived the culls of staff which followed the sackings of Christiansen and Paul Heckingbottom. Abad never played professionally but he has a UEFA Pro licence and was goalkeeping coach for Elche and Middlesbrough - on both occasions as part of a team which included Leeds’ director of football Victor Orta - before arriving at Elland Road. Benoit Delaval - fitness coach Delaval is a French fitness coach who evidently impressed Bielsa during the Argentinian’s short and torrid spell as Lille’s boss. Delaval’s history with Lille went back much further - 12 years back, to 2006 - and he has been working in professional football throughout his career having studied sports science in Clairefontaine, France’s national football centre. He stayed on at Lille after Bielsa’s dismissal last December but came to Leeds in the summer after Bielsa decided not to enlist his long-standing fitness expert, Gabriel Macaya. According to Delaval’s LinkedIn profile, he earned a UEFA A licence in 2011. Ruben Crespo - fitness coach Another fitness coach who came to Leeds from Hull City in June. He was Hull’s head of fitness for 18 months having originally joined the club in 2016. His CV shows prior stints in Thailand and Russia, where he worked for Torpedo Avarmir. He grew up and studied in Spain at universities in La Coruna and Vigo. Jorge García Valera - analyst Valera is a Spanish analyst whose last job was at Atletico Madrid. Levante had employed him previously. He is another new addition to the backroom team.
Morning Matt, and all We have our 4th game coming up, no way should young fit sports men be tired, when you play the way we do, as Wenger did with Arsenal, training is all about certain fitness levels and working on systems and set plays, not running yourself into the ground in 5a side. If a player is carrying a knock that's different, but after the first 2 games, all these players deserve their place. I'm pretty certain M B will know if a player is tiring and will do what is required, like he did with Klich in the first 2 games. These teams will mostly have the same schedule, I'm sure the Preston game we'll see changes. Know nothing about the Spurs lad. MacAnthony has a knack of bringing Leeds into it everytime he has a player for sale, not sure if he thinks it puts the price up.
