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The #LUFC Breakfast Debate (Mon 18 June)

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  1. ellandback

    ellandback Well-Known Member
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    Weidwald's contract is being terminated.
    FIFA Article 17 gives the players full compensation should this be done.

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    ICELAND, Booo!!
     
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    Weghorst ook in beeld bij Leeds United
    Wout Weghorst wordt niet alleen gelinkt aan Sevilla, ook Leeds United heetf de spits en aanvoerder van AZ op de korrel. Hij moet volgens Engelse media de eerste aankoop worden van de nieuwe manager Marcelo Bielsa, die vorige week werd aangesteld bij de ploeg uit het Championship. The Whites lijken daarmee op de Nederlandse toer te gaan. Bij Leeds United spelen al Vurnon Anita en Jay-Roy Grot. Leeds United, in 1992 nog landskampioen, werd vorig seizoen 13de op het tweede niveau van Engeland.


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    Und meinen cok es thees big.
     
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  5. w.c.dukenfield

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    Morning all. What is the point of that?
     
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  6. ellandback

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    Place of birth: Rosario, Argentina Position: Defender Playing career:

    Newell’s Old Boys (1977-78)

    Instituto (1978-79)

    Argentino de Rosario (1979-80).

    Coaching career:

    Newell’s Old Boys (1990-92)
    Bielsa and his family were Newell’s fans of old and Bielsa started his short playing career there, as a defender. It is Newell’s where Bielsa is revered and where the club’s stadium is named after him, on the strength of the success he inspired. Having worked beforehand as a reserve-team coach, Newell’s showcased Bielsa’s tactical brain and abandon and the club won the domestic title twice, in 1991 and 1992.

    He oversaw almost 100 games but after losing the final of the ‘92 Copa Libertadores to Sao Paulo, he shocked his squad by saying his goodbyes and leaving for a new challenge.


    Atlas (1993-94)
    From Newell’s Bielsa went to Atlas in Guadalajara, Mexico as a club director initially, taking charge of implementing a proper recruitment network. Atlas persuaded him to take on the head coach’s job for the 1993-94 season and Atlas qualified for the end-of-year play-offs for the first time in 12 years, eventually losing in the quarter-finals.

    Bielsa reluctantly continued into the following campaign but signs of burnout in his players and faltering results saw him resign just 23 days into it.


    Club America (1995-96)
    One of Mexico’s biggest teams, Club America recruited Bielsa after a short time as a free agent. His preparation was familiar - requesting footage of games over the previous two seasons and analysing their squad in depth - but despite a convincing start, Bielsa and the hierarchy at Estadio Azteca, some of whom were TV executives, fell out over the club’s insistence that the Argentine should involve himself in more media work.

    That dispute is said to have led him to refuse to do one-on-one interviews from then on and three successive defeats soon led to his dismissal.


    Velez Sarsfield (1997-98)
    Bielsa went back to Argentina after his sojourn in Mexico, joining Velez Sarsfield in Buenos Aires. Under him, the club won the Argentine national championship for the fifth time, losing one game in 19 and securing the title with a game to spare. It was the third of Bielsa’s managerial career, following on from his success at Newell’s. Espanyol (1998) “A fleeting and unfortunate marriage” is how one Spanish newspaper described Bielsa’s dalliance with Espanyol. The club brought him to Europe in June 1998 after his productive spell with Velez Sarfield but Bielsa became aware early on that Argentina’s Football Association wanted to appoint him as head of their national side.

    Bielsa sought to leave, Espanyol dug their heels in but in September, after six games, one win and with the club 18th in La Liga, he was sacked without protest. Espanyol had already decided to replace him with fellow Argentine Miguel Angel Brindisi.


    Argentina (1998-2004)
    With Bielsa free from Espanyol, he succeeded Daniel Passarella after Argentina lost in the quarter-final of the 1998 World Cup. He held the post for six years but with only minor success. His squad made the next World Cup in 2002 but lost to England along the way and were eliminated in the group stage. They finished runners-up in the Copa America two years later and won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Athens that year but Bielsa packed up before long, admitting that he no longer had the energy for the job.


    Chile (2007-2011)
    Four years in charge of Chile represents one of the more satisfying periods of Bielsa’s career. He invigorated a national side who had failed twice in succession to qualifying for the World Cup and beat a path to the 2010 tournament in South Africa as Chile began to get the measure of other, more successful South American nations. His results included a first ever win over Argentina. With his popularity soaring, Bielsa nonetheless walked out after an election in which Chile’s president Harold Mayne-Nicholls - the man who appointed him - was ousted by rival Jorge Segovia. Bielsa stood down in 2011.


    Athletic Bilbao (2011-2013)
    Europe got its first glimpse of Bielsa’s imagination through his reign at Bilbao. Appointed in the summer of 2011, he set out with a run to the final of the Europa League, defeating Manchester United in the knockout stages after a masterclass of a performance at Old Trafford. They met their match in Atletico Madrid in the final, outclassed and comfortably beaten in Bucharest. The result of that year’s Copa Del Rey final also went against Bilbao, with Barcelona lifting the trophy after a 3-0 win. Despite the early promise, his second season fell flat. Defender Javi Martinez moved to Bayern Munich and Bielsa fell out with his star striker, Fernando Llorente, who was begging to leave the club. Bilbao finished 12th in La Liga and Bielsa’s contract was allowed to expire.


    Marseille (2014-15)
    Another tale of promise and disappointment, and the scene of Bielsa famously sitting on a hot cup of coffee by the touchline. Marseille competed for the French title in his first season but eventually faded into fourth place. In the summer that followed he and the club’s board were at odds over various issues and when Marseille lost their first match of the 2015-16 season to Caen, he quit there and then having handed a resignation letter to Marseille minutes before his final press conference. Despite his contract running for another 12 months, he flew home to Argentina.


    Lazio (2016) July 6, 2016
    Lazio appoint Bielsa. July 8, 2016: Bielsa resigns, saying Lazio have failed to deliver on transfer promises made during contract negotiations. It goes down as one of the shortest tenures in history and again, Bielsa was not for turning.


    Lille (2017)
    Bielsa was the big-money choice of a new regime at Lille and much cash was spent on transfers and infrastructure ahead of his first season in charge. But his team were blunt, one-dimensional and devoid of the ability to improvise and Lille were soon struggling near the bottom of Ligue 1. Bielsa angered Lille’s hierarchy by taking an unauthorised trip to Chile to see an ill friend in hospital and after suspending him in November, the club fired him in December.

    A dispute over compensation is still in the French courts.
     
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  7. ellandback

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    I was hoping someone would translate it!!!! Morning WCD
     
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    Translation. It means FO :emoticon-0136-giggl
     
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  9. w.c.dukenfield

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    Morning Ell
     
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  10. ellandback

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    Wout Weghorst is not only linked to Seville , Leeds United also addresses the striker and captain of AZ. According to English media, he must be the first purchase of the new manager Marcelo Bielsa, who was appointed last week to the team from the Championship. The Whites thus appear to be on the Dutch tour. At Leeds United, Vurnon Anita and Jay-Roy Cave are already playing . Leeds United, national champion in 1992, was 13th last season at the second level in England."
     
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  11. ellandback

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    By Phil Hay

    Felix Wiedwald is closing in on a return to Germany with Eintracht Frankfurt bidding to sign him from Leeds United.

    Wiedwald looks set to end a torrid year in England by moving back to the Bundesliga and rejoining a club he played for earlier in his career. The 28-year-old spent two years with Frankfurt between 2013 and 2015 and is wanted by the German side to compete with new signing Frederik Ronnow after current first-choice Lukas Hradecky chose to leave at the end of his contract.

    Leeds are open to approaches for Wiedwald and want to move him on just 12 months into his three-year contract. Wiedwald cost £500,000 from Werder Bremen last summer, replacing Rob Green as number one at Elland Road, but he struggled for form in the Championship and was dropped by both of United’s head coaches this term, Thomas Christiansen and Paul Heckingbottom, amid criticism of his performances.

    His last appearance came in a 3-0 defeat at Middlesbrough in March, a result which saw him lose his place to 21-year-old Bailey Peacock-Farrell. Wiedwald struggled to make the bench ahead of Andy Lonergan during the closing stages of the term.

    United have been targeting a new keeper since the beginning of the transfer window and are vying to sign Manchester City youngster Angus Gunn on a season-long loan. The club have also shown an interest in Birmingham City’s David Stockdale - surplus to requirements at St Andrews - but the YEP understands that Leeds and Stockdale are a distance apart on wages.

    Wiedwald’s availability has alerted Frankfurt, who recently won Germany’s DBF Cup with an impressive victory over Bayern Munich. Hradecky confirmed ahead of the final that he would be quitting the club when he contract expired this summer and has since agreed a move to Bayer Leverkusen. Ronnow, meanwhile, will officially join Frankfurt from Danish club Brondby next month.

    Wiedwald is among a group of players who Leeds are working to remove from their wage bill. Academy midfielder Madger Gomes departed for Sochaux in France last week and Swedish forward Marcus Antonsson is close to a move to Massimo Cellino’s Brescia in Italy.

    New United head coach Marcelo Bielsa spent weeks studying the squad at Elland Road prior to his appointment on Friday and has already told Leeds which players will not be part of his plans next season.
     
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  12. Gessa

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    Morning all.

    Impressed the manager as already done his homework and knows what players to keep, and which ones to let go. If we have a £20m transfer kitty, personally I'd prefer to spend that on 3 quality players rather than 8 average joes like we have already. Vydra, get him for £8-10m, leaves us 10-12 to get a centre back and midfielder, then a couple of frees and loans and we're not going to be far off, using what we have already
    3/1 is far too short a price, especially as we've signed no one yet. It's only that price becsuse of the amount of money being lumped on us, not the fact the bookies think we'll do it.

    Surely they won't pay Wieldwald up his contract, they could get something for him. The Germans like him.

    Couldn't split the 2 Chris's
    Healy - just.
     
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    Good morning Matt

    Biesla looking to get on with job as early as possible
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    he hasn't got long before the pre-season training resumes
     
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    Never had a bet on Leeds however those odds are far too stingy to even contemplate a wager, not good value

    Bookies safeguarding their satchels I guess
     
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    Never a fan of Healy or Blake

    Chris Fairclough for me
     
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    Interesting Matt. I wonder who are the other players on the list to go
     
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  17. wakeybreakyheart

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    Jay roy cave ha ha is he a grotto<laugh><laugh><laugh>:1980_boogie_down:
     
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    Afternoon Wakey
     
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    Good afternoon from zakynthos just had a bit of lunch and a beer.the bars are all geared up for the world cup .the greeks love their football.
     
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    We should get 5 - 6m sell on fee from Danny Rose as well.... Afternoon btw Gessa
     
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