With the material at hand, Bielsa is probable the only one who potentially can save us from relegation. Hopefully he does, but then, after this season I think he’ll call it a day.
Saw that Lampard is the bookies favourite to become our manager if Bielsa goes now, or if he’s asked to leave. However, that’s a joke, at so many levels.
Bowyer would be my choice, his 6 or 7 seasons with us making sure that Leeds blood run in his veins. He’s of course very different from Bielsa, but he’s got the passion required to be manager here, and he did well at Charlton.
Believe Jesse Marsh could learn a thing or two from Bielsa.
You're not alone.
I miss the man
Leeds have written to MB and asked if they can rename TA after him.
Waiting for a reply
Bump to push the spam down a bit but JM masterclass v Barnsley!!!!
Proof in the pudding tomorrow. Bielsa managed to navigate this round last year but not the year before
Phillips getting splinters up at St James' Park - wonder if he was keeping tabs on us yesterday?
Right BB, get off that fence please.
In JM we trust!!! No need to wait till Xmas 😁
I like that he's continued to push fitness regimes. The system is slightly different - more zonal than man marking, and less dependent on wide men making crosses, but is still essentially a similar brand of attacking pressing football. JM seems much more relaxed with the media and very articulate. He's brought a lot of young up and coming coaches with him and is clearly another manager who looks to identify and improve young players. Like El Loco, he is very strategic in his approach. I did love MB but the single year contracts meant he probably would have parted ways this summer anyway. In summary, I think we have a good young manager and a good young squad and happy to back them all the way.
bump
I like JM - but the jury is out for now. Will wait til after Xmas to share my opinion
Has he actually made any statement at all since his departure? Sad to think he's just slunk off back to Argentina without a word. 😢
Jury still out on JM but seems to have continued the Belisa way of playing football, open, fast, heads up football.
However Marcelo's place in LUFC has been cemented in concrete. What the guy and his backroom staff at TA/ER is indescribable, a real footballing man that just wanted the beautiful game to shine, and by God did we shine when MB was in charge for those 4 fantastic years, from his very first game beating stoke at elland road all the way 2018-2022. Ok his final few games were losses but i can forget those the wins, the performances, the attitude of the players, the bond the team had with the fans, all of these far outweigh the final few games. I for one find it hard to watch a leeds game without seeing MB crouched down pondering over what to try next. I also miss the blue bucket, i know im a sad old man.
I miss the bucket.
Lust I believe have asked the city to give bielsa the freedom of the city got a petition going
He talks a good job had a lot of media training with red bull I reckon
So far, Marsch has made a good impression. We all would have preferred Bielsa to finish this season in good style, but it’s also obvious that the painful decision had to be taken. Plenty to celebrate, though, in no particular order:
He got us up.
He reinstalled pride and belief in and around the club. He made us play attractive football.
He, and he alone, developed average players into decent PL players.
His football philosophy excited everyone.
His interviews are legendary.
His fair play approach with no room for players’ over-reacting or acting.
His humble attitude and connection with the fans.
His discipline helped remove the previous chaos at the club.
And easily so much more to the list! I‘m grateful to have witnessed the man in action and the process he started and completed. And I’m sure he has Leeds in his blood, by now. Thank you, Marcelo.
He looked really lost yesterday BB (really felt sorry for the man)
I think he maybe considering his position at the Club and who knows what the outcome of that will be. Id say Marcelo will have a many a sleepless night mulling over whether or not to give it one more year but i don't see him getting distracted over "will i stay, will i go" thoughts until after our season is finished at the earliest.
Thought and deliberation goes into everything MB does when it comes to football and deciding or not to continue on as manager at LUFC will be no different, but only when the time comes and not beforehand.
As we have all said MB's place in LUFC is assured and he will always be seen in the eyes of LUFC fans as one of a kind, a real Club Legend that all fans will be eternally grateful for.
But should Radz/Orta etc be planning for the future beyond MB? Yes i think they should be looking down the road, God forbid but what would happen if MB was forced to retire due to illness or had to return to Argentina for personal matters, what would the Club do then? Personally i would love it "if" MB decides that he can do no more at LUFC that he would recommend a possible name or two that could takeover from MB and continue the "footballing ethos" that we have become accustomed to over the past 3-4 years.
Can any manger pick up that baton? not everyone, but there are a few candidates that could and it would be down to the Board to follow up on those possible suggestions. I think none of us want Marcelo to go however the man will be 67 in July and id say the amount of hours researching / video analysis / etc is beginning to take its toll.
I hope to God we don't go down not just because of what that entails for Leeds United going forward. but because i don't think a man of the stature and honesty of effort that MB has and the enormous work that his backroom staff put in that those efforts would be seen as failure. I think that would be the ultimate black mark against MB and i really hope it doesn't materialize
Click bait site have been trying to sell Rafa, KP, Meslier and others because it is quiet. Easy to write about MB now.
LUFC fans keep clicking on them so they get the hits they are looking for.
We get linked to virtually every player that is looking for a move, again more hits for them.
MB has brought us back into the Prem, put pride back into the club and city and his football for most of his 3+ years has been amazing.
I have had to put up with hoofball for more than a decade. Warnock, Redfearn, Evans, Heckingbottom, Blackwell, Monk, McDermott and no marks like Hockaday. From the Stoke game I have been amazed.
Players like KP, Cooper, Bamford, Dallas, Ayling owe everything to him. As do Klich, Harrison and Alioski.
The man is a God but after 4 years in England with lockdown, then perhaps the lure of returning to Argentina to be with his family is too great?
You can't half tell the football writers have feck all to write about and are just making random sh1te up. And for so called "news men" they seem completely uninformed and clueless when it comes to reporting news about LUFC - including and especially the self-appointed fount of no knowledge - Phil Hay! Every one of us knows MB doesn't discuss contracts until the end of the season. We also know VO and Radz never discuss the managers position with the press - even the ones who can speak Spanish or Italian. So there just isn't any story, none at all, zilch.
Personally I will back MB for years to co me, and if I didnt, it would be to big up somebody better, not the clowns that Hay & Co. conjure up. Has there ever been an age when sports reporting has been worse than now!