Raposa He talks well. None of this is his fault. Seems very respectful of Bielsa too, Obvs he needs to hit the ground running with the fans on board though. No idea how this will pan out but I do hope the knobs will give him a chance.
Placid Raposa A run of games without a loss would be just bloody fantastic. The all pile on with owner on twitter is embarrassing.
Mitaman Raposa Nobs are Nobs, they will be at him. He can’t win unfortunately, if he keeps us up it will be because of Bielsa.
Mitaman All of this has happened so fast, I haven’t had time to properly grieve yet. All of a sudden he is gone and its business as usual. Its all a bit weird. Added, how will he transition to zonal marking from 3 years of M2M? Tough task.
Foxy_Dread Mitaman Is it? Zonal is something these lads will have been doing all of their careers until recently.
heyho Some of the clickbait reporters are stating that some players (not named of course) are saying that Bielsas training regime was too much for them. Really.
Mitaman Foxy_Dread They have been hard-wired day in, day out to do the other for 3 1/2 years (thats not recent). It won’t be an immediate transition I don’t think, I might be wrong.
white_dragon As a defender, it should be simple, to not track people way out of your zone . Firpo and llorente would be better for it .
EEPW Loose_Lips not when its Ayling tracking Son like a tortoise trying to keep up with a cruise missile.
Foxy_Dread Loose_Lips man marking has variables. There is a man emerging from midfield with the ball who has lost his man, what call does the defender already with a man make?
heyho Out of interest in the days of Shankly and Revie and 4-4-2's what would you call the defensive strategy?
Foxy_Dread heyho man marking. A lot different back then with offside interpretations. Hold your line, shrink the pitch.
heyho Foxy_Dread shrink the pitch. That went on for years didn't it. Wasn't it Wilko who got into trouble for physically shrinking the width of the pitch to accommodate the Sterling/Dorigo 'wing backs'.
heyho who the fuck is 'transfer insider' Dean Jones. Apparently, according to him, Raphinha and Phillips are gone. Tell us something new pal.
heyho heyho that Dean Jones is at it again: It’s a “big blow” for Leeds manager Jesse Marsch not to have Liam Cooper, Kalvin Phillips, and Patrick Bamford available, according to journalist Dean Jones.
heyho Mitaman probably a good job at the Baseball Ground. I went a few times and i couldn't believe how dangerous that drop around the pitch was.