Bielsa’s premonition

It’s not often that a fired coach receives such an outpouring of support from fans. that happened in Marcelo Bielsa at Leeds, was sacked to acclaim in February 2022, after three and a half years of excellent work on the Elland Road bench. The coach who made possible the miracle of the return of leeds united in the Premier, after 16 years of waiting, he left dismissed by a string of bad results, but received hugs, signed autographs and warm expressions of admiration from the Yorkshire club’s followers.

The methodical and meticulous bielsa He is the star of the ‘whites’, but the club is led by the investment group Aser Ventures, owned by the Italian. Andrea Radrizzani are in a hurry to find a change, a decision that has now turned against Elland Road, when relegation to the Championship is a real danger, and has revived the drama experienced in 2004. bielsa in his farewell, along with his proverbial way of carrying out reviews: “There is another way of looking at things. Everything that has not been tested is thought to be a solution, but it is just the opposite, the truth invites us to develop”. The outstanding coach of Argentina, an expert in dealing with crises, seems to have made a prediction about the future of the club, because he is sure he has a solution to correct the bad start in his second season in the Premier, after being the ninth in the first, with the best score of a recently promoted.

SA bielsa he was promised the construction of a statue and put his name on the training ground at Thorp Arch, a decision that the manager, who was very upset, has not yet accepted. Since the departure of the Argentine, the leeds united caught in the quagmire of confusion and, including the American Jesse March at the bank, signed for his victory at RB Salzburg and RB Leipzigsurvived a test in the last game of the previous season, where he had to win against Brentford to save yourself. What happened next got worse and worse. Investing in very young players, who will be exploited, that the Spaniards are planning Victor Orta and some results achieved by MarchThey are difficult to digest.

Since the beginning of February, the leeds he played under four different coaches. Then Jesse Marchthe club’s under-23 coach arrived, Michael SkubalaThe Spanish Javi Grace (11 games), and now the veteran English manager Sam Allardyce, came with a parachute and as a fire extinguisher to put out, somehow, the fire that had developed at Elland Road, with just three wins in 22 games. Methods and forms are no longer important, because they have nothing to do with English ideas Allardyce with the project taking too long to complete bielsa.

Although its loyal fans always fill Elland Road, one of the most pressurized stadiums in English football, Leeds United will need all the strength possible to escape, once again, from the vicious circle that has thrown them into to relegation, within 14 months of chained mistakes. . There are three very difficult games waiting for him, against Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United, at the London Stadium. Just three years after returning to the Premiership, the Yorkshire ‘whites’ have once again been plunged into drama, the result of a confusing mistrust management that risks Marcelo Bielsa announced, and seen coming.