Gary Neville's warning to Bielsa

04 Sep 2019 07:08 am, by Ellandback1


Good Morning. It's Wednesday 4th September, and here are the Leeds Utd headlines...


Is it Nketiah and Costa time?

After back to back defeats against Swansea and Stoke (in the league Cup), is it time to introduce Nketiah and Costa to the Leeds starting line up? Whilst they have done well as a substitutes, they'll never be match sharp until they starts games.

Will Bielsa play Nketiah and Bamford together? Who would Bielsa sacrifice?





Gary Neville's warning to Bielsa

Gary Neville has been speaking on Sky Sports about Bielsa's inability to learn English and how it could hamper Leeds bid for promotion. The former Red believes his own time in Valencia was hindered by his failure to learn Spanish.

“I couldn’t communicate to the players and we talk for a living. Every team talk was 50 minutes because it had to be translated by the person next to me. If you see Bielsa’s interviews, they’re hard to watch too,” he said on The Last Word With Stan Collymore.

“I had four Spanish lessons a week, I was getting up at six in the morning, they thought I was crazy, to basically do an hour and a half of Spanish. All the team meetings were in Spanish, I insisted, they obviously needed a translator for me but I worked really hard.

“I’m doing this team talk and Alvaro Negredo comes up to me, he says ‘look, there are two things, you just have to do it in Spanish. You can speak football words now, you’ve been here for three months. People admire you for it, it’s brave, but you’ve just got to do it because you’re still speaking in English after three months’

Should Bielsa be making more of an effort to learn English?





Club or Country

A month into the season and we already have our first International break!

Who enjoys them? Is it a welcome distraction from the league or are you sick and fed up of having to cram in so many midweek features to allow for Internationals?

Who would sacrifice a return to the Premiership in order to have their Country crowned world champions?

Have you always thought this way regarding club v Country?





Top journalist claims Leeds walked away from Kent deal

According to Daily Mirror journalist David Anderson, Leeds had a 4.5m offer accepted for Liverpool winger Ryan Kent but then changed their minds once they heard that Nketiah was available. They used much of that money to bring the Gunner to Elland Road on loan for the season.

Liverpool refute this claim. They say that they turned down the 4.5m offer.




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1964white wrote on 04 Sep 2019 04:02 pm

Neville on Bielsa
Should Bielsa be making more of an effort to learn English?

Bielsa's interviews are a chore so I don't listen to them anymore, always interested to read his comments though

Club or Country

Club first

However always welcome a break away from Leeds games, bowls & work. Gives me the opportunity to take holidays/breaks during these periods. Currently enjoying a week in Northumbria, you could meet me on the corner in Holy Island/Lindisfarne today :-D

8 games in August is a manic time for footy fans

Top journalist claims Leeds walked away from Kent deal

The signing of Nketiah was much more important to us especially once Roofe was sold. Eddie has done well scoring three goals in limited game time during August

Sara wrote on 04 Sep 2019 12:22 pm

rab_rant wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2019 11:25 am His language
is a mixture of poetry and philosophy, with a cadence and a rhythm to it. He speaks in Koans
which are surprising, illuminating, incomprehensible and often contradictory. They help
true Leeds fans to live with ambiguity and paradox.
Wonderful post, thank you. Today is a most profound day on MOT. I'll have three pints of Stella.

rab_rant wrote on 04 Sep 2019 11:25 am

b]Gary Neville's warning to Bielsa[/b]

Gary my son What is the sound of one hand clapping? Bielsa's press conferences and team talks
are there for you to learn Spanish... tune in regularly and you might pick it up, then you might have
had more success at Valencia.

Have you ever heard of the Argentinian poet Jorge Luis Borges. In 1955 he became director
of the Argentine National Library. He was blind yet he was put in charge of the library.
Now there is a conundrum for you!!! a man who can not see in charge of a library.
How glorious is that... why it is almost as good as Bielsa giving team talks in Spanish.
You just don't get it do you???

The press conferences given by Bielsa are the most enjoyable part of my week.
He does not speak like a boring Sky pundit on the Stan Collimore show. His language
is a mixture of poetry and philosophy, with a cadence and a rhythm to it. He speaks in Koans
which are surprising illuminating incomprehensible and often contradictory. They help
true Leeds fans to live with ambiguity and paradox... loosing when you should win
and visa versa.

Gary the Pundit is seeking a definitive one true answer to the enigma that is Bielsa,
and he will forever remain in a hazy daze because he is not in tune with the magic reality
of Borges and Bielsa. A poor spirited little rich boy who has Salford as a plaything and is deluded
that he will achieve football with them.

True football is probably about suffering... of seeing hopes and dreams slip out of your grasp...
suffering setbacks but still getting up and getting on with the game. It is not about premiership
privilege. It is being deducted 10 points. It is being brought to the verge of extinction. It is being
betrayed time and time again by incompetent owners. It is seeing the best players of a generation
being sold for profit.

In the past these are the thoughts that we dwelt on, deceit attended our every waking hour, being lied to by
Professors, administrators, Arabs with their arses hanging out their breeches, and that blue mythical creature
Papa Smurf.

Now we rejoice to see Bielsa smile and crack an incomprehensible joke that is untranslatable into
English... Why??? because he is a happy man, a man who sits still but who is dancing around on the inside.
The blue bucket man on the touchline, blind as Borges to the clamour around him. Deaf to the
pop eyed hissing and spitting fits of fans and pundits alike. He sits serene under an invisible banyan tree

We might ask the ultimate question “Question: What is Buddha/Borges/Bielsa? Answer: Three pints of Stella.”
And Gary you will never understand or comprehend that.
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Sara wrote on 04 Sep 2019 10:48 am

mothbanquet wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2019 10:04 am Bielsa's language is football and it's a beautiful tongue.
Very well put!

Irish Ian wrote on 04 Sep 2019 10:47 am

Good Morning everyone.

Said last season that MB needs to learn to English. He talks in riddles at the best of times, but this season the translator he is using doesnt seem as nuanced as Lamrani. As a result I tend to just skim the pressers now.

That is bound to frustrate the players at times, and surely limits what he can get across especially in the dressing room and when sending on the subs.

Costa in for Forshaw when we are playing at home. You cant drop Pablo. He will need to be rested though. Eddie as suoer sub, for now.

Club before country... well if Northern Ireland ever were to be World Champs I'm sure it would be worth the sacrifice :lol:

Kent not sure what happened but Ed has been a dream signing, pity about the £4M :)