Deler litt Marcelo Bielsa fra ulike intervjuer i dag:
Ên til èn-møter med spillerne:
Patrick Bamford-intervju (YEP)
This, about Bielsa, feels like new information, about one-to-one pre-match meetings:
“It’s not so much a man to man hands on coach. We have individual meetings a night before a game and he tells you what he expects from the game tomorrow. Throughout the week on the training pitch he is so demanding and he makes sure you keep your levels high. He feels like he can improve us more and more and I’m sure he can. Even if we won every game he would be even more intense because he wouldn’t want us to take our foot off the pedal. This year especially with the squad we’ve got, there’s such good competition that everyone knows they’ve got to play well.”
Phillips inne på det samme(Leeds That Podcast)
Kalvin Phillips has been speaking on a similar theme to the Leeds That podcast:
"I played the games for England, and thought I had done reasonably well, and same against Liverpool, but the meeting after that he took half an hour to just absolutely batter me. He just said I wasn’t good enough, the first game I was alright but the second game I didn’t look myself. He does it to keep you grounded, to not think ‘oh we beat top of the league last week and we are playing Leicester next week’. He does it to let you know you have bad games and you can always improve."
Og skadeforfulgte Will Huffer om Bielsa-utsagn før hans ene Leedskamp (The Athletic)
Aapo Halme, Leeds’ Finnish centre-back, was also making his debut that weekend, in place of the absent Pontus Jansson. In the team meeting beforehand, Bielsa told the rest of his players: “I don’t know if Will and Aapo are any good. So you all need to get around them.” Huffer found the comment strange but came to appreciate what Bielsa was doing. “I think he wanted to take the pressure off us,” he says. “He was trying to say to them, ‘They haven’t played before so the responsibility is on the rest of you’. The reason it works so well for him is that he knows exactly what he needs in any situation. And if everyone buys into it, you’re sorted.”