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Jon R

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« Svar #150 på: Juni 25, 2018, 19:25:49 »
Bielsa ble under introduksjonen av Radrizzani kalt "manager". Jeg kan ikke huske at PH og TC fikk denne tittelen. Noen her som leser noe ut av det? Er Bielsa noe mer enn en head coach?


Det var derfor jeg endret tittelen på emnet!


Jeg tror det ligger noe mer i dette. Radden sier at vi står foran en kulturendring i klubben. DEN tror jeg Bielsa står for: Marcelo-effekten!
Joda, Rad rota med de begrepene når TC ble ansatt også, brukte de litt om hverandre.
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« Svar #151 på: Juni 25, 2018, 19:36:48 »
Times Sport

Marcelo Bielsa says he has watched 4,770 minutes’ worth of footage from Leeds’ games last season - or 3.3 days' worth

@hirstclass reports from his 82-minute opening press conference as Leeds United manager


Marcelo Bielsa watched Leeds’ entire season to hatch plan for promotion

June 25 2018, 5:00pm,



Bielsa says he will try to learn English despite having not spoken it since he was at school
Bielsa says he will try to learn English despite having not spoken it since he was at schoolMike Egerton/PA
Marcelo Bielsa used his unveiling as Leeds United manager to give supporters an insight into the extreme lengths to which he has gone to try to get the club back into the Premier League at the first time of asking.

Bielsa, once described by Pep Guardiola as “the best coach in the world”, said on his first public appearance as Leeds head coach that he had watched all 51 of their matches from last season – and two post-season friendlies – since Andrea Radrizzani, the club’s owner, approached him in the hope that he would take up the position vacated by Paul Heckingbottom on June 1.

Like Guardiola, Bielsa is a big believer in video analysis and research. He turned up to his press conference… ( innlogging )

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« Svar #152 på: Juni 25, 2018, 21:34:32 »
Leeds United too big a job to turn down for meticulous Marcelo Bielsa

Phil Hay
Published: 15:29 Monday 25 June 2018
 Marcelo Bielsa. Picture: Getty Images
Marcelo Bielsa. Picture: Getty Images
New Leeds United head coach Marcelo Bielsa said he had been drawn to the job by the “strength of the club and the institution” and promised to keep faith with his philosophy in the Championship after being formally unveiled at Elland Road.


Speaking for the first time since agreeing a two-year contract with Leeds, Bielsa vowed to build a team who would take games “by the scuff of the neck” and said he had taken his first managerial post in England with the dream of ending United’s 14-year Premier League exile.


Bielsa, the former Argentina and Chile boss, was appointed by United more than a week ago but flew in from South America on Saturday and met the club’s players at Thorp Arch for the first time this morning.


The legendary 62-year-old was United’s ambitious choice to replace Paul Heckingbottom and accepted the position after more than two weeks of intense negotiations over his contract.

“It was a case of me convincing myself,” said Bielsa, speaking through a translator at a press conference this afternoon. “No-one had to convince me. I was convinced by the strength of Leeds United as a club and an institution, and on the field in a sporting sense. I looked at things from a football point of view.


“I’m very meticulous and careful in these processes. Having spoken with Victor Orta and the president (Andrea Radrizzani) I found two people very keen to look at the direction of the club in a sporting sense. I was very conscious they weren’t going to promise something that they couldn’t fulfil so I wanted to describe every detail about me from the word go so that they would not be surprised by anything.”

It’s imprudent to promise something when there are so many uncertainties, but at the same time not to be impossible dreaming about that happening.

Marcelo Bielsa
Bielsa’s is renowned as one of the world’s most innovative coaches and Leeds made him the highest-paid coach in their history by offering him a salary in excess of £2m.

The appointment was a response to the club’s 13th-placed finish in the Championship last season, Radrizzani’s first as club owner, and Bielsa vowed to tackle the division with his traditional brand of expansive, attacking football.


“We almost have an obligation as managers to put into place what we believe in,” he said. “We cannot have obligations in other people to believe it if we don’t believe in it ourselves.

“I believe that the players have enough ability to take on board what I’m saying and to take on board my beliefs and actions on the field

“As regards what the fans can expect, I think they want protagonists on the field rather than just talking about what might happen I want people to take the game by the scruff of the neck - time with possession on the ball rather than fighting to win it back.”

Asked about his expectation of promotion next season, Bielsa said: “I think if you are trying to predict the future you are almost becoming a demagogue rather than a football coach. It’s better to be reasonable and measured and not give sweeping predictions.


“It’s imprudent to promise something you cannot be totally certain of. But at the same time, it would be impossible not to be dreaming about that. What drives you is having the desire, hope and belief that you can carry out what everyone wants.”

Bielsa indicated that as many as 15 players could leave Leeds this season and said he wanted to see the squad strengthened in “four or five positions”.

The Argentinian, however, gave the current squad a vote of confidence, saying: “For the moment we’re not intending to bring too many new faces in. From my point of view the club have got plenty of players I feel should remain here, who we should keep.”

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« Svar #153 på: Juni 25, 2018, 21:47:42 »
Merkelig samling med folk.... Hvem er på flankene?



Til høyre har vi Stix (Lockwood), ham møtte vi på Thorpe Arch tidlig på 2000-tallet og selv da var gammel i gamet. Hva jobben hans går ut på varierer vel, men 'fixer' vel diverse småting. I Cellino/Bates-årene fikk han dårlig ord på seg for å smiske seg i posisjoner... Hvor fortjent det ryktet var skal ikke jeg mene noe om...
Mannen til venstre aner jeg ingenting om.
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Jon R

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« Svar #154 på: Juni 25, 2018, 22:18:34 »
Merkelig samling med folk.... Hvem er på flankene?



Til høyre har vi Stix (Lockwood), ham møtte vi på Thorpe Arch tidlig på 2000-tallet og selv da var gammel i gamet. Hva jobben hans går ut på varierer vel, men 'fixer' vel diverse småting. I Cellino/Bates-årene fikk han dårlig ord på seg for å smiske seg i posisjoner... Hvor fortjent det ryktet var skal ikke jeg mene noe om...
Mannen til venstre aner jeg ingenting om.
Edit: Det er Salim Lamrani fra støtteapparatet rundt Bielsa.   :)
Også forfatter og pedagog. Fungerer nok som tolk for Bielsa, som han gjorde i Lille.

«His five-strong backroom team at Elland Road is set to include a number of long-time allies, including Argentinian coaches Pablo Quiroga and Diego Flores and Chilian Diego Reyes, all of whom have worked with Bielsa at other clubs. Salim Lamrani, who acted as Bielsa’s translator at Lille, is also expected to join United.

Read more at: https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/football/leeds-united/leeds-united-confirm-marcelo-bielsa-appointment-1-9208028»

https://www.facebook.com/SalimLamraniOfficiel/
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« Svar #155 på: Juni 25, 2018, 22:31:03 »
Det er Salim Lamrani fra «trenerteamet».  :)
Også forfatter og pedagog. Hva hans rolle i teamet er, vites ikke. Google holder kortene tett til brystet på det punktet. Fungerer nok som tolk for Bielsa.  :D
https://www.facebook.com/SalimLamraniOfficiel/

Ã…hh, er det han, begynte å twitre på engelsk i forrige uke, på min anmodning ;9

Om du ikke fant så mye på google kunne du leitet i OEF :D (Manageren og hans backroom staff)

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Salim Lamrani - translator
Descirbed by Le Monde as 'the most overqualified man in Ligue 1' during Bielsa's time at Lille, Lamrani is as fascinating a character as you'd expect Marcelo Bielsa to associate himself with.
Lamrani has no background in either football or translation, but is instead an academic, specialising in relations between Cuba and the USA. A prolific author with a number of published books to his name, Lamrani has also spoken in Cuba, England, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Boliva, and the USA alongside the likes of Noam Chomsky, Kev Livingstone and Howard Zinn.
 
A multilingual Marseille fan, Lamrani had written extensively about Bielsa and his admiration for the coach during his time at the Velodrome and would chose to leave his position as a lecturer at the University of Reunion to work with Bielsa at Lille after the pair had previous met in South America and clicked.

Bielsa is extremely guarded in his relationship with the media, refusing to do one-on-one interviews, with this quote from Romain Laplanche's 2017 biography on Bielsa, The Mystery Bielsa, explain the importance of having a trusted translator: "It is no wonder that he is appealing to him. Bielsa's language is very precise and precise, it is cultivated and has a particular rhetoric.

 
"I think he wants this rhetoric to be respected. When Bielsa speaks to the press, he considers that he speaks to supporters through the media, so he wants to be clear that his speech is not distorted."
As well as being at Bielsa's side for every press conference during his spell at Lille, Lamraini also acts as a translator for Bielsa and non-Spanish speaking players.

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Jon R

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« Svar #156 på: Juni 25, 2018, 22:34:13 »
Det er Salim Lamrani fra «trenerteamet».  :)
Også forfatter og pedagog. Hva hans rolle i teamet er, vites ikke. Google holder kortene tett til brystet på det punktet. Fungerer nok som tolk for Bielsa.  :D
https://www.facebook.com/SalimLamraniOfficiel/

Ã…hh, er det han, begynte å twitre på engelsk i forrige uke, på min anmodning ;9

Om du ikke fant så mye på google kunne du leitet i OEF :D (Manageren og hans backroom staff)

Sitat
Salim Lamrani - translator
Descirbed by Le Monde as 'the most overqualified man in Ligue 1' during Bielsa's time at Lille, Lamrani is as fascinating a character as you'd expect Marcelo Bielsa to associate himself with.
Lamrani has no background in either football or translation, but is instead an academic, specialising in relations between Cuba and the USA. A prolific author with a number of published books to his name, Lamrani has also spoken in Cuba, England, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Boliva, and the USA alongside the likes of Noam Chomsky, Kev Livingstone and Howard Zinn.
 
A multilingual Marseille fan, Lamrani had written extensively about Bielsa and his admiration for the coach during his time at the Velodrome and would chose to leave his position as a lecturer at the University of Reunion to work with Bielsa at Lille after the pair had previous met in South America and clicked.

Bielsa is extremely guarded in his relationship with the media, refusing to do one-on-one interviews, with this quote from Romain Laplanche's 2017 biography on Bielsa, The Mystery Bielsa, explain the importance of having a trusted translator: "It is no wonder that he is appealing to him. Bielsa's language is very precise and precise, it is cultivated and has a particular rhetoric.

 
"I think he wants this rhetoric to be respected. When Bielsa speaks to the press, he considers that he speaks to supporters through the media, so he wants to be clear that his speech is not distorted."
As well as being at Bielsa's side for every press conference during his spell at Lille, Lamraini also acts as a translator for Bielsa and non-Spanish speaking players.

Jeg oppdaterte innlegget mitt mens du svarte, Asbjørn.  ;D
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« Svar #157 på: Juni 25, 2018, 22:35:18 »
Jeg oppdaterte innlegget mitt mens du svarte, Asbjørn.  ;D
Så det etter at jeg hadde postet og gadd ikke forandre  :-X
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« Svar #158 på: Juni 25, 2018, 22:50:50 »
YEP

His appearance at Elland Road drew journalists from Lille and Bilbao, and the gathering might have been bigger had the World Cup not taken much of the English press corps to Russia. Bielsa is a constant source of fascination, a man who was photographed at his desk at Thorp Arch surrounded by a pencil, Tippex, a set square, a pile of dog-eared books and a cup of mate tea. Not an iPhone or a tablet in sight, as befits a coach who has never owned a mobile phone. At the end of his opening round of comments, all one hour and 20 minutes of them, only a little light had been shed on the fun to come. It is how Bielsa prefers to work: away from the legend and in the shade.
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« Svar #159 på: Juni 25, 2018, 23:08:37 »
Translators name: Phil Dickinson


Han var meget god! Virker som han kjente Bielsa, sikkert klubbens faste oversetter i kontraktsforhandlinger.....


....kanskje!  ;)
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« Svar #160 på: Juni 26, 2018, 02:10:08 »
Bielsa i kveld

"No puedo prometer resultados deportivos, pero es imposible no soñar con llegar a la Premier League. Lo que le da sentido a los proyectos deportivos es soñar con alcanzar lo que todos persiguen".


"Jeg kan ikke love sportsresultater, men det er umulig å ikke drømme om å nå Premier League, det som gjør at idrettsprosjekter betyr å drømme om å oppnå det som alle er ute etter".


 8)
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Kato

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« Svar #161 på: Juni 26, 2018, 08:09:00 »
Leste egentlig ikke så mye ut av pressekonferansen når det gjelder forsterkninger. Synes han nevnte at vi må forsterke fem posisjoner, samtidig som stallen er altfor stor. Innbiller meg de uansett er svært forsiktig med å love for mye spillere inn, det er i seg selv prisdrivende. Ellers er det vel liten tvil om grundigheten (sett 51 kamper), selv kampene fra Myanmar hadde han sett.
 

stian

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« Svar #162 på: Juni 26, 2018, 09:33:45 »
Liker det jeg leser om Bielsas maniske forhold til analyse. Det kommer i alle fall ikke til å skorte på «game plan». Jeg er mer bekymret for språket - det skal være litt av en tolk som formidler det fotballfaglige til spillerne.

Kombinasjonen «for stor stall» og «forsterke i fem posisjoner» høres ut som en storrengjøring. Vi kan kanskje regne med en spansk- og engelsktalende kaptein som blir en av Bielsas faglige talerør i gruppa? Hernandez er et alternativ, men blir ikke overrasket om det kommer inn noen nye som skal fylle denne rollen. Drømmer om en Mascherano som ser muligheten for å spille fast et par år til og starte overgangen til en trenerkarriere med å lære av en mester.
« Siste redigering: Juni 26, 2018, 09:38:31 av stian »

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« Svar #164 på: Juni 26, 2018, 11:23:14 »
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Neo

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« Svar #165 på: Juni 26, 2018, 11:27:09 »
Liker budskapet til Bielsa.

Her skal stallen strammes opp, og unødvendig stallfyll og kostnadsdrivere skal bort.
Det er betryggende.
Har vært altfor mye kvantitet på bekostning av kvalitet de siste årene.

Aner at pisken svinges ganske kraftig i tiden som kommer, ift hvem som er "in" og "out".

At han allerede har sett samtlige kamper fra sist sesong, lover meget godt.

Gleder meg til fortsettelsen.

stian

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« Svar #166 på: Juni 26, 2018, 12:05:28 »
Kanskje til og med noen spillere kan selges og generere noen ekstra pund i transferkassa. Berardi, Anita, Phillips, Ekuban, O’Kane - det kan tenkes at disse og evt. andre kan generere et par-tre mill. pund til sammen, i tillegg til å frigjøre en del lønnsmidler. Med maks uttelling på spillerlogistikk har Bielsa en av divisjonens fem beste transferkasser.




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« Svar #167 på: Juni 27, 2018, 00:09:36 »
Lufc selv har plukket ut disse høydepunktene fra pressekonferansen:

MARCELO BIELSA PRESS CONFERENCE FIVE KEY POINTS

On Monday new Leeds United head coach Marcelo Bielsa was unveiled to the media, here we look at five key points:

On style of play

“The fans want the protagonists out there on the field.

“I want people to take the game by the scruff of the neck, not being afraid of the ball, and spending time in possession.

“They will see a kind of football where the ball is kept on the floor and as we work the ball forward, we will keep it on the ground.

“They will see loyalty and faithfulness from the players as they try to implement what we do in training out on the field.”

On the squad

“The players I want to keep are the players I can guarantee game time to.

“We think the club, generally, have got 15 players- you might consider to be an excessive amount, more than we need and there are probably four or five positions on the field where we need to strengthen.

“Moving forward in a football sense, the squad shouldn’t be too numerous, we shouldn’t have too many players in the squad who aren’t getting game time.

“There might be some departures so the number of players in the squad isn’t too excessive, I like to have a trimmed down, lean squad so everyone is getting game time.”

On getting his messages across

“I am very conscious of the importance of the spoken and written word in getting your message across.

“Getting players to play and appealing to players’ emotions and inspiring them to play - I think getting your message across as a manager is all about that.

“The biggest factor that gets players playing is emotion and if you speak sincerely, words and how you express yourself goes hand-in-hand in activating those football emotions.”

On the Championship start

“There are no easy games in football, we never think about an easy game as a manager and we are naturally optimistic most of the time.

“For me, having my first game at home and to have the kind of belief and excitement that it’s going to be a sell-out crowd will make it almost like a Premier League game, that for me is something to be really excited about and something that really stimulates me.”

On sleeping at Thorp Arch

“I have not been thinking about that, we’ve not made our mind up to do but I’ll take that as a suggestion.”

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« Svar #168 på: Juni 27, 2018, 20:09:55 »
Tøff tredje-trening i går for enkelte spillere:


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Strømsgodset vs Leeds, 19.september 1973

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« Svar #169 på: Juni 27, 2018, 21:19:00 »
Jeg skal ihvertfall ikke være negativ utover. Bielsa er så langt unna hva jeg hadde turt å håpe på. Dette er et skup av dimensjoner! Endelig har vi fått en respektert og fryktet trener. Jeg håper for Guds skyld at alle rundt ham gjør hva han sier, og at han får arbeidsro. Det kommer til å bli mediatrykk på Leeds fra første spark på ballen.
De gode tidene starter nå!!

DON REVIE

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« Svar #170 på: Juni 27, 2018, 21:46:24 »
 8)Shhhhh......forsiktig nå, det er noen her inne som mener det er Tut-Ankh-Amon vi har fått og  at vi skal være realistiske!!!! Det har vi jo ikke vært i 15 år!!! La oss grave oss ned i materie i Marseille og Lille å se hva vi finner av negativitet!!  :o :)                                                                                          Oppturen starter nå!!!! MOT
« Siste redigering: Juni 27, 2018, 21:48:59 av DON REVIE »

B_Ød

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« Svar #171 på: Juni 28, 2018, 08:20:36 »
vi får se..blir spennende...har forsåvidt ønsket samtlige coach/managere de siste årene arbeidsro jeg...
Ups & Ups!!

Kato

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« Svar #172 på: Juni 28, 2018, 08:30:49 »
vi får se..blir spennende...har forsåvidt ønsket samtlige coach/managere de siste årene arbeidsro jeg...

De fleste av oss har vel tro på at dette blir bra. Og arbeidsro er vel et av de viktigste suksesskriteriene.
 

B_Ød

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« Svar #173 på: Juni 28, 2018, 08:36:23 »
vi får se..blir spennende...har forsåvidt ønsket samtlige coach/managere de siste årene arbeidsro jeg...

De fleste av oss har vel tro på at dette blir bra. Og arbeidsro er vel et av de viktigste suksesskriteriene.

det hadde jo vært å håpe, men laaangt fra sikker på det.
Ups & Ups!!

Kato

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« Svar #174 på: Juni 28, 2018, 09:37:17 »
https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/football/leeds-united/head-coach-bielsa-gets-busy-working-out-leeds-united-s-best-future-options-1-9225353

Greit oppsummert, så langt. Det trenes hardt.

6 uker til vinduet stenger, men lånevinduet er åpent ut august.
 

ragnar

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« Svar #175 på: Juni 28, 2018, 09:48:41 »
Ser ut som om Bielsa allerede vet hvem han vil ha med videre. Det blir en spennende sommer ihvertfall.
*In El Loco we trust!*

Cherry

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« Svar #176 på: Juni 28, 2018, 09:56:39 »
Spillere delt opp i 3 grupper, om ikke statiske grupper enda....:

1 core gruppe, de som antagelig er med videre,
1 gruppe der man skal vurdere om man skal ha med spillere videre ..her kan det bli opptak til core gruppen- og
1 gruppe med U23 og de som allerede "har fått beskjed ift øksa" ........ 

Så skal det da komme inn 5-6 kvalitetssigneringer....eller hva?  :o ;D                   
 

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« Svar #177 på: Juni 28, 2018, 10:13:40 »
Spillere delt opp i 3 grupper, om ikke statiske grupper enda....:

1 core gruppe, de som antagelig er med videre,
1 gruppe der man skal vurdere om man skal ha med spillere videre ..her kan det bli opptak til core gruppen- og
1 gruppe med U23 og de som allerede "har fått beskjed ift øksa" ........ 

Så skal det da komme inn 5-6 kvalitetssigneringer....eller hva?  :o ;D                 

Head coach Bielsa gets busy working out Leeds United’s best future options

WELCOME BACK: Leeds United's players take part in pre-season training at Thorp Arch..' Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe.

Phil Hay Email Published: 08:13 Thursday 28 June 2018

 Leeds United’s players have not been asked to sleep at their training ground, as Lille’s were invited to by Marcelo Bielsa 12 months ago, but they are rapidly clocking up the hours in the first week of pre-season at Thorp Arch. The clutch of senior professionals put to work by Bielsa were on the grass for long laps around 10am yesterday morning and drove home after 7pm, at the end of a third session of training. Bielsa’s programme will keep them in each other’s pockets until the summer gives way to competitive football.

The Argentinian, who was appointed as head coach almost a fortnight ago and began the job in earnest on Monday, has divided United’s first-team and development-squad players into three specific groups:
1. a central core he is intent on working with,
2. a blend of Under-23s and senior names who might yet feature next season
3. and a collection of others who are surplus to requirements.


A total of 12 players were in the main group yesterday, led by last season’s club captain, Liam Cooper. Some of the absences spoke for themselves: Pontus Jansson is away at the World Cup with Sweden and Ronaldo Vieira was given additional time off after England Under-20 duty, though the midfielder has reported back regardless and watched the early running session yesterday.

Tyler Roberts, having failed to play once due a cracked shin bone suffered after his £2m move from West Brom in January, was elsewhere in the gym having done extensive fitness work before pre-season began. Vurnon Anita is still recovering from ankle surgery carried out on him in April.

Leeds United's players take part in pre-season training at Thorp Arch. Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe

Alongside Cooper were Adam Forshaw, Kemar Roofe, Kalvin Phillips, Tom Pearce, Luke Ayling, Samuel Saiz, Pablo Hernandez, Stuart Dallas, Gjanni Alioski and Gaetano Berardi. Bailey Peacock-Farrell was the only goalkeeper involved with Leeds still in the midst of talks about the potential signing of Angus Gunn from Manchester City and David Stockdale from Birmingham.

Other absentees were on the brink of moving elsewhere. Lewie Coyle joined Fleetwood Town on a half-season loan yesterday and Pawel Cibicki is close to quitting Leeds on a temporary basis.Serie B club Brescia want Marcus Antonsson and the Swede has no future at Elland Road despite an effective spell with Blackburn Rovers in League One last term.

The Argentinian, who was appointed as head coach almost a fortnight ago and began the job in earnest on Monday, has divided United’s first-team and development-squad players into three specific groups

More notable by their omission were Republic of Ireland international Eunan O’Kane, strikers Caleb Ekuban and Jay-Roy Grot and winger Hadi Sacko. Andy Lonergan, United’s most experienced keeper, was also missing along with Luke Murphy, the largely forgotten midfielder who still has 12 months left on the long contract he signed in 2015.

Three others – Laurens De Bock, Yosuke Ideguchi and Mateusz Klich – had been photographed on Monday training with Leeds’ Under-23s and appear to fall into the clutch of ‘maybes’ who Bielsa is assessing. United have not confirmed publicly which players are available for transfer but Bielsa asked the club to make the surplus crowd aware of their fate before he flew to England last weekend. Some, like Cibicki, are well on the way to finding other clubs. The forward, who United signed from Malmo 10 months ago, enjoyed a brief purple patch around Christmas but finished last season training with the club’s youngsters.

Bielsa is well on the way to establishing what he called a “trimmed-down squad” but United’s senior training group as yet shows no new faces.

RUNNING THE RULE: Leeds United's new Coach Marcelo Bielsa during his press conference at Elland Road. Picture: Bruce Rollinson Negotiations which, in some cases, have run from the earliest days of the transfer window are still to bring about the club’s first signing and tomorrow marks six weeks before the EFL’s deadline for permanent moves passes. Loan deals, however, are permitted until the traditional August 31 cut-off under new rules agreed by EFL clubs.

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What Leeds fans can expect from Pep Guardiola’s idol, Marcelo Bielsa: the crazy one

He’s influenced some of the best managers in football, yet his revolutionary methods have divided opinion. Thore Haugstad on the highs and lows of a maverick manager

One thing that might have made Marcelo Bielsa think twice about joining Leeds is the Christmas fixtures. If some Latin players dislike spending their festive holiday chasing a ball through snow and gale, something similar might be true of Latin coaches, accustomed as they are to winter breaks. Yet Bielsa might have to adapt for a different reason.

When once asked how he would spend his Christmas, the Argentine outlined a daily routine of two hours' exercise and 14 hours of video analysis. That’s tough to keep up when you have games to play. Presumably, he will now reduce his hours in the video room to approximately 10.

Not that he’ll like it; compromise has never been a trait of his. Part of what has made the 62-year-old a cult hero is his commitment to doing things his way. At Marseille, he’d jump into a blue tracksuit to either patrol the touchline or sit on a cool box; once, he sat down on a cup of burning hot coffee.


At Athletic Bilbao, he’d take exactly 13 steps every time he crossed the technical area; he refused to explain why. He drew chalk marks on his shoes to show the players how to kick the ball, then walked around with the marks for days. They call him El Loco, ‘The Crazy One’, although Athletic forward Iker Muniain was once asked if Bielsa really is as mad as people say. “No,” said Muniain. “He’s madder.”

Yet Bielsa is no joke figure. Fans tend to love him and illustrious tacticians have copied him, including Pep Guardiola and Mauricio Pochettino. When studying to become a coach, Guardiola took an 11-hour flight to Buenos Aires and then drove 185 miles to Rosario just to talk to Bielsa. Guardiola calls him the best coach in the world, which may seem odd to those who don't know El Loco well. In 30 years, he has hardly won anything.

Revolution

Bielsa comes from Rosario, the hometown of Che Guevara, Lionel Messi and Cesar Luis Menotti, the coach who led Argentina to the 1978 World Cup title. Born into a family of politicians and lawyers, Bielsa immediately dedicated his capacity for hard work to football. He’d collect videos and subscribe to magazines whenever he wasn't playing himself. He never made it as a player and, retiring at 25, took charge of the Buenos Aires university team instead, scouting 3,000 players before picking a squad of 20.


Two years later, Bielsa joined the youth academy of Newell’s Old Boys: one of the two big teams in Rosario, and the one for which Messi would later play as a kid. Bielsa felt the club was missing out on talents in the dusty corners of Argentine football, but he was afraid of flying. Resolving to discover them anyway, he embarked on a national scouting tour, clocking up five thousand miles in a Fiat 147.

He took over the senior team in 1990, and that’s when the revolution began. Bielsa had fallen in love with the Ajax school of the 1970s, in which the players press relentlessly and push up their defence to minimise the space available to the opponent. Yet Bielsa didn’t want the tempo to drop once the ball had been won, so as soon as Newell’s had it, they’d play it forward as fast as possible. The play went at full speed, all the time. How would the players possibly have the energy to keep it up?

The Bielsa school

Bielsa tried to solve that question by training the players hard. He drilled in an ambitious 4-3-3 system that would transform into a 3-4-3. On the training ground, he practised synchronised movements that the players were supposed to repeat in games. He locked himself away for days studying the opposition, then handed out dossiers to his players. The end product was unlike anything Argentine football had seen.

Newell’s stormed to national league titles in 1991 and 1992. At their best they were spectacular, attacking without stop and running their rivals into the ground. Theorists applauded too, because Bielsa had managed to combine the work of the two schools of Argentine football: those of Menotti and Carlos Bilardo.


Menotti, the chain-smoking hero of the 1978 triumph, was the romantic who loved to attack and left the creativity to the inspiration of his players. Bilardo, who delivered the 1986 World Cup title, favoured a defensive set-up and based his work on meticulous planning and video analysis. Bielsa adopted the adventurous ways of Menotti and the analytical eye of Bilardo. His ideas were so innovative that the players could hardly avoid learning a great deal.

Part of what turned so many of his players into coaches was Bielsa’s insistence that they’d think for themselves. He’d ask them to read newspapers and to write up dossiers on their own. Among the players were Tata Martino, who went on to coach both Barcelona and Argentina; Eduardo Berizzo, who has led Celta Vigo and Sevilla; and Pochettino. The focus was always the process, not the result. In one game, Pochettino scored a header, only to receive an earful from Bielsa for having been in the wrong position.

In that way, Bielsa didn't only become a tactical pioneer, but an influential educator as well. Yet the intensity of his work proved taxing. In 1992, Newell’s reached the final of the Copa Libertadores, the South American version of the Champions League, but lost to Sao Paulo on penalties. The players were exhausted and so was Bielsa, who resigned.

Chilean hero

Six years later, Bielsa won another Argentine league title with Velez Sarsfield. That propelled him to take charge of a superb Argentina side. They went to the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea as favourites, Bielsa filling his suitcase with 2,000 videos – yet they crashed out in the group stage. Their manager stayed on to lead the under-23s to Olympic gold in Athens in 2004, before bowing out.


His next gig was the Chilean national team. Having not reached the World Cup in 12 years, La Roja made it to South Africa in 2010, where they lost in the last 16 to Brazil. Bielsa won the hearts of a nation, not just for reaching the tournament but for his exciting style of play. Though he resigned a year later over a clash with the incoming FA president, the groundwork for success had been laid. When Chile won the Copa America in 2015 and 2016, many credited Bielsa.

That spell was his hitherto last with national teams. In 2011, Bielsa took charge of Athletic Bilbao and immediately led them to the finals in the Copa del Rey and the Europa League. For a while they were the most exciting team in Spain, playing Manchester United off the park en route to the Europa League final. Yet the style of play again proved draining. They lost both finals, then suffered their worst league start in 32 years to hamper a second campaign that would prove to be Bielsa’s last.

Suspended and sacked

A year later, Bielsa moved on to Marseille, where he again started well. At the halfway stage, they topped Ligue 1. “The workouts are intense but enlightening, technically and tactically,” said striker Andre-Pierre Gignac. “He knows everything to the smallest detail. I glanced at his training schedules; there are hundreds of them and every one featured games he analysed. He taught us a vibrant, real type of football.”

But Marseille also crumbled and ended up 14 points off top spot. When they lost the first game of the next season, Bielsa resigned, citing a dispute over his contract. Such fallouts with directors and presidents are another Bielsa trend: he also confronted senior figures at Athletic over a delay to construction work at the training ground. When he joined Lazio in 2016, he accused the club of not having signed the players they'd promised him and resigned after two days.

When Bielsa tried to take Lille into the Champions League last summer, he didn't even start well. They were second from bottom after 13 league games, at which point the club suspended him. They duly dismissed him in December.

So it is against this backdrop that Bielsa now joins Leeds. At his first press conference, he said he had watched all of their 51 games from last season, plus two post-season friendlies in Myanmar. What the players might have made of him is anyone’s guess, though a hint may be taken from Benjamin Mendy, who played for Bielsa at Marseille.

“When he addressed the players the first time, he didn’t smile once,” Mendy recalled in a recent piece for The Players’ Tribune. “But when he talked about strategy, you could see the madness coming out. You could see his passion. You could see that he lived for football, for every detail. After the meeting, a team-mate looked at me and said: ‘He is not normal, this one.’ He was right. Bielsa is not normal. Who wants normal?”

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