Newell’s Old Boys - English
Leeds have the option to keep Marcelo Bielsa if they are not promoted, while if they are, he is contractually obliged to stay next season, according to his brother Rafael Bielsa.
Rafael, a lawyer, said he helped Marcelo negotiate his contract with #LUFC. (via @lacapital)
Rafael Bielsa: "I speak to him every day. But he cannot return to Newell's under the terms of his contract with Leeds. He is not the type to not fulfil his obligations".
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Moscowhite har brukt Google Translate (med modifikasjoner, som han skriver) og kommentert litt rundt intervjuet:
That's a lot about the future, so here's some reassurance. Marcelo Bielsa's brother, Rafael, has given an interview in Argentina addressing the pleas from Newell's Old Boys fans for Bielsa to come back and save their club, which is in danger of being relegated this season. Not happening, says Raf.
Marcelo can not go back to Newell's because he has a contractual problem.
What Rafael says is 'un problema contractual', but I don't take that to mean, 'a problem to be overcome'. Another translation of 'problema' is 'issue'; essentially, there is something in the contract that prevents Bielsa going to Newell's, leaving aside whether he wants to or not. (I've lightly edited the rest from the Google Translate version to help it make sense, too.)
I made the contract. If they do not go up to the Premier League, Leeds has the option to keep
Bielsa. Taking into account the successful campaign it is difficult not to think they'll want to keep
Bielsa. And if Leeds goes up, it is mandatory for both parties to stay.
In the contract he signed there is no break clause like Marcelo had when he was running Espanyol
Barcelona, and had the possibility of going to the Argentine national team.
So I would say, especially not to embitter the life of Marcelo himself, to whom everything that
happens with Newell's hurts a lot, and not to generate unfounded expectations, Bielsa can not come
back because of his contract. To come back he would be breaking a contract and my brother is not
doing that.
Do you talk to him? Almost every day we talk and obviously the exclusive issue is Newell's.
That hurts a bit, doesn't it? Tell your brother about Alioski, Marcelo!
But if Marcelo wanted, he could break the contract? Yes, but I can not imagine Marcelo breaking a contract. He never broke it during his career. It was
the other way around. For example, with América de México or Lille de Francia it was because the
clubs broke the agreements. ... His character is like that. Who more than me, his brother, would like
Marcelo to come to Newell's? But I do not see him breaking so many rules. And not for the strictly
professional rules, but for an existential question. The Bielsa family does not break the rules. They
are values ​​that are learned as a child, you are taught by your mother, your grandparents and the
whole family environment.
I ask you because Marcelo always said he would return to Newell's only when it was in a difficult
situation, and right now it is serious. But Marcelo, as I told you, because of an existential question, would never break so many rules. His
love for Newell's is already proven.
...but he's staying in Leeds. Probably. If we go up, definitely, because the contact says it is 'mandatory' for both parties and I couldn't imagine him walking away from a shot at the Premier League. If we don't go up, despite the contract saying Leeds have an option, I can imagine an amicable parting; Leeds won't keep Bielsa against his will, and I've wondered whether Bielsa would have the appetite to go through this season again, after giving it so much. I'm not even sure I do. The added lure of wanting to rescue Newell's could lead him, not to break the contract, but to find an honourable way of asking Leeds not to take up their option so he can go. At which point we'll all just have to move to Rosario with him.
