Marcelo Bielsa on Not Paying a High Price For a Low Player Which Might End Up Costing Leeds a High Price Or It Will Be Fine
Dealing with last weekend first, Bielsa went to great detailed lengths to say it was all his fault, then said he was going to great detailed lengths to say it was all his fault to make sure everybody is clear that it was all his fault.
Let's play Blankety-Blank, and maybe you can win Andrea Radrizzani's cheque book and pen. Can you remove the blanks in this quote from today's press conference with Marcelo Bielsa:
"One of the things that damages the most in [BLANK] is the expectations and the hopes the fans had for [BLANK] and it feels like we've defrauded them. And if there's something that hurts a lot it's to disappoint [the fans], to not give what's expected of us, so this produces suffering."
...and can you work out if he's talking about losing last weekend, or this summer's transfer window?
He's talking about losing, of course, but it I reckon it works for both. Without a second major signing this summer, it seems there is going to be great suffering. Not for Bielsa, who is happy with the players he has, but a lot of fans, who aren't. It's been almost as underwhelming as that bewildering summer when we signed Wolves' left-back they didn't want, a Middlesbrough reject striker, a Middlesbrough reject winger only on loan from Manchester City, sold our most promising midfielder to Italy, and got a bunch of Chelsea loanees in who didn't play. Then our final position improved twelve places to 3rd. It's THAT bad.
Dealing with last weekend first, Bielsa went to great detailed lengths to say it was all his fault, then said he was going to great detailed lengths to say it was all his fault to make sure everybody is clear that it was all his fault:
"I gave such a long explanation so there is no doubt that the responsibility of the defeat is in the function that I have, and I've argued it in a sufficient manner so you guys know that it's true."