weasel wrote: ↑Fri Jan 28, 2022 7:12 pm
Speaking on the latest edition of
The Phil Hay Show, Hay discussed Leeds boss Bielsa and his strategy in this month’s transfer market. He divulged how much control he has over transfers and the effect that it has on the ins and outs during the window.
He said: “I’ve been told by various people that, this month, he has not been that fussed about people coming in. And I know we’re all on the outside saying ‘you don’t have enough, you need this, you could do with more in midfield’.
“But going right back to the start, he’s never really relied on the transfer market in the way that so many other head coaches do.
“So yeah, it is kind of difficult. And I can imagine there probably are times where the recruitment team at the club are thinking, ‘we could probably do with signing him, or singing him, or we could do with improving this, or this, that and the other’.
“But the final decision will always be Bielsa’s, because it kind of has to be.”
Then Bielsa is actively holding the club back.
Either Orta is s**t at providing attractive targets or Bielsa is far far to set in his ways.
For all we appreciate what he has done it is also imo symbolic of a man who has never had to evolve a team, he has his squad who have almost all been with him since he started and because he believes his system is king then he sees no reason to change.
The squad is so exceptionally 1 dimensional and limited I really am concerned about the future. Both the immediate and when Bielsa leaves, the amount of money to make this squad competitive will be astronomical.
Bielsa has worked wonders with what he has but what he has has hit a ceiling and he seemingly is uninterested in evolving.
Know some will blame injuries and whatnot but then refuses to acknowledge the impact no fans had last season, this squad is bottom 5 fully fit, that is the consensus in the footballing world.
Maybe this is just what happens when you give Bielsa fill control? Eventually you hit a wall and because he is not interested in moving forward things come to a natural end?
Probably get stick for this post but it has to be said imo.