Après fizz
As Red Bull's energy football goes out of style, it's leaving frantic, effervescent players like Brenden Aaronson marooned on uncertain, shifting terrain, trying to learn what RB never taught them.
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Victor Orta
A collection of 7 posts
The mess Meslier is in
Illan Meslier's 9,600 minutes in the Premier League alone are 600 more minutes than Perri has played in his entire career. The simple truism comes to goalkeepers before others, about doing much too much, much too young, and Meslier has grown up in much too bright a spotlight.
Georginio Rutter and the peak of the Brighton model
Things may not actually be that bad. But they're bad enough to have me thinking about Peter Ridsdale, Professor McKenzie, Ken Bates and the parallels. So that is bad enough.
Victor Orta, and the search for an idea
After promotion, Leeds United became a club caught waiting for someone to decide its direction, unable to get beyond the next crisis. And out in front was Victor Orta.
Victor Orta can't get no
It's a weird game like this, football, because it's not about chasing high after high. Instead it's like being addicted to something that hardly ever satisfies you.
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.
Howling in Eindhoven
What we've learned this year, in February and September, is that Leeds' board talk a good game about being committed to their carefully composed strategies, then crack. That is not a good look.