Recent content by Blechnum

Exactly this - at the time he was sacked, the media narrative quickly became a simplistic "His tactics have been found out" by other managers, but the reality was more nuanced - masses of first team players out injured and growing conflict between owner Radrizzani and Bielsa. Like you say, the...

More than that in fact - he even coached several of the u10s and u11 teams on his days off. Fully immersed himself in every aspect of the club down to tiny details - e.g. altered the size of staff parking spaces and arranged Christmas raffle for staff (and bought the prizes himself). In the...

I'm confident that with several key players returning from injury in March last year, Bielsa would have kept Leeds up. It may have been a close-run thing, but I'm convinced he would've achieved results just as good (and probably better) than those of Marsch. Contrary to what you've said, he did...

I can see why Dyche is the more attractive option for you: he'll get the players working much harder and will instill a sense of togetherness. Yes, judging by much of what he's said over the years, he's a fairly simplistic and uncultured character, who perhaps sees the world in rather black and...