| The Right (or Wrong) Manager Goes A Long Way 17:03 - Oct 27 with 359 views | Chris_ITFC |
"Although there has been significant investment of around £100million in transfers, six of the Leeds team that started the Villa game were in Bielsa’s match-day squad when he took charge of his first fixture 26 months ago — a 3-1 win over Stoke City in the Championship. It may well, incredibly, have been eight of the 11 if Kalvin Phillips and captain Liam Cooper were not out.
The squad Bielsa inherited and who he analysed through those 70 hours of footage had finished 13th in the Championship, behind Ipswich Town who are now in League One.
What is so remarkable, therefore, is that Bielsa has not only been hugely successful in bringing Leeds back to the Premier League but has done so playing a particular brand of attacking football that is not easy to learn, that is time-consuming and demanding — and he has done so depending largely on the same core of players.
What that immediately does is blow the myth that managers cannot coach players into an attractive style of football — that, in fact, they have to adapt to what is available to them. For years some managers have trotted out the same line as an excuse for a functional, conservative approach: it is because they can only work with what they have got, or with the budget they have, and therefore the players are not good enough to play differently. If they had more money and could sign better players, the argument goes, they could play better."
Credit: Jason Burt [Post edited 27 Oct 2020 17:04]
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| The Right (or Wrong) Manager Goes A Long Way on 17:11 - Oct 27 with 321 views | ITFC_Forever |
That's where you give a 5 year contract, see also Chris Wider.
Not idiots like Lambert. |  |
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| The Right (or Wrong) Manager Goes A Long Way on 17:27 - Oct 27 with 282 views | Darth_Koont |
Hmmmm. 6 of the team were in a squad of 18 from two years ago. And it wasn’t as if Leeds hadn’t spent loads before then either.
I do agree with the basic premise that coaching is ultimately more important than individual quality and spending large on transfers, but this is hardly a “juggling sand” scenario. |  |
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