Marcelo Bielsa among the critics, Uruguay 2025 edition
Uruguay's poor form has been, one reporter wrote, 'not a surprise, but the chronicle of a disaster foretold'. Marcelo Bielsa, of course, has heard the arguments. He doesn't agree with them.
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Too much pessimism, too many excuses: 1931/32 season, part four
Leeds United's chairman, Alderman Clarke, was looking for common cause among struggling football clubs. What he got was to be put back in his place.
Uruguay, Canada, coping and the Copa: football and a four hour dirge
"The head coaches have power, the owners of the clubs have power, the media have power and the fans have power. But they don't use it."
Failure is inevitable when no one is allowed to fail
Marcelo Bielsa says football is getting worse because of the pressure and the scrutiny and the blame and the accusations. Or to put it another way, Lee Dixon's commentary.
Acting to imagine: Thomas Christiansen takes on Marcelo Bielsa
When Bielsa placed his hands on Christiansen's shoulders before this game began the moment passing between them contained multitudes, from Vurnon Anita to Jay-Roy Grot.
Proposal: abolish football managers
The death of football is relentlessly demanding that the manager is held 'accountable' when organised chaos does not deliver perfection.
Marcelo Bielsa is making it easy again in Uruguay
The interesting stuff at this press conference was about how Bielsa was going to transform Uruguay into a Bielsa team, given he has almost no time with the players, and such a particular style of play to teach them. I think his answer is also relevant to how he did it in six weeks at Leeds.
Marcelo Bielsa on Argentina, the World Cup & love
Perhaps you were also wondering how Marcelo Bielsa felt when Argentina won the World Cup — Pablo Lamedica from TyC Sports in Argentina was, and asked him about it. And perhaps you will see how the answer relates to recent strife at Leeds United AFC.
Before, during, after
Now we've seen Leeds United as owned by Andrea Radrizzani both before and after Bielsa was in charge. And we've seen that Bielsa's reign was the only time Leeds United was good.
Don't let them go to Everton
It was Bielsa’s Leeds, and he let us have it. It was a gift to us from a generous soul. And I, a selfish bastard, don’t want him to give anything like that gift to anybody I don’t like.