Bielsa press conference:
Pressern, ja...
Dette siste spørsmålet kom ikke med i referatet i det hele tatt i første omgang (til å forstå, ikke lett å referere den lengden...), men du verden for et svar!!!!
Et konkret og (syns jeg) veldig relevant spørsmål angående Tyler Roberts ble besvart slik:
Tyler Roberts has played in every single league game for you so far, but he’s started only one and he saw Joe Gelhardt of course start on Sunday. If Tyler was interested in a move away in January and wanted to pursue more opportunities ahead of the World Cup next year would you seriously consider that or would that leave the squad too short, do you believe?With respect to if we are missing players or if the squad is short or small, I have the impression, we would have to value if the team really needed signings and if the design of the group was badly calculated in function of the injuries that were produced.
When you add players to have a bigger group it decreases the possibilities to come into the first team. When you have more players for the same needs, there is less minutes for the players so I look over the decisions that I make.
When Shackleton has been the alternative to Ayling when he hasn’t been there and when he has played it has been valued. Pascal [Struijk] has been the alternative when [Junior] Firpo and Ayling haven’t been available at left-back and in the last two games, he has shown that he deserved that trust.
Pascal Struijk has benefited from Leeds United's small squad (Image: Plumb Images/Leicester City FC via Getty Images)
When Llorente has been missing, [Charlie] Cresswell and Ayling have given positive responses. Of course, when I make these observations I always measure what the public thought, what you guys thought of their performances, the same when Cooper has been missing and Pascal had to play.
In the last games, [Adam] Forshaw and Pascal have been the alternatives when Phillips hasn’t been there and [they] have been satisfactory. In a need to replace [Mateusz] Klich, Forshaw and [Stuart] Dallas have done this in a good way also.
The patience Rodrigo needed has born fruit and we found in him an offensive midfielder that is solid. In the absence of Bamford, [Daniel] James has continuously given better performances in that position and not to have brought in more players has allowed Gelhardt to express himself.
And the absences of Raphinha and [Jack] Harrison have been covered by Summerville and James and always with the acceptance of the public and the media, so I try to see if we really have to adhere to these demands for signings, or if to keep the same players and to have patience because it allows James to consolidate himself, for Gelhardt to find the space, that Summerville can have the same process as Gelhardt, managing that Forshaw has a constant presence in the team once again, allowing for Rodrigo as a nine or a 10 to show his qualities, being able to allow Ayling to play well as a centre back and Dallas as a left full-back, capitalising on Pascal as an important player and Shackleton.
So I am not the owner of the truth, nor am I immovable in my point of view, but there are messages I need to know how to interpret and for that reason, I evaluate the decisions I made, without this having been just my decision I always give the example of [Illan] Meslier.
That when such a young player came as an alternative for [Kiko] Casilla, who came from Real Madrid, it was also a question mark. So of course there are players with more entity, but it is also true the contributions of Shackleton, Pascal, Cresswell, Forshaw coming back, Summerville, Gelhardt, that if we had a squad with more players, these options that have consolidated the group wouldn’t have been produced.
And of course, not all clubs can incorporate players without limits, and in a club that has bought Rodrigo, that has bought James, that bought Raphinha, that bought Llorente, Firpo, Koch. There are many signings and naturally in the capital that is invested I feel completely I have been given the resources.
I need to put the points of correction where I think they should be so I don’t have positions that are fundamentalist and I don’t abandon in any way, but I am obliged to analyse the messages I receive.
Tyler is also someone who I have accompanied with, with his efforts to get into the team and whilst he continues to have that desire to fight for a place in the team then I will still want him to be here. It is different when a player has the desire to leave. When a player has a desire to leave, there is no point in trying to keep him.
To summarise, the club has put enough human resources at my disposal for the results not to be different. I can’t attribute the position in the table, nor the injuries, nor to a not sufficient amount of players. Obviously what is left is the management of the players that I have and that is where the focus of the attention is and everything I have just said I have said it by giving points and arguments.
Her er det hele
https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/sport/leeds-united/every-word-bielsa-summerville-poveda-22278883Interessant at Summerville ble utelatt fra troppen til fordel for McCarron/McKinstry, uten å være skadet... (tipper det kan være reisebelastningen etter U23-debuten for Nedeland som spilte inn)...
On the team news: Crysencio Summerville wasn’t involved last time out, is he injured or is he available to you this weekend?I decided for [Liam] McCarron and [Stuart] McKinstry [against Tottenham].