comment by LeedsFanFor43Years (U6871)
posted 3 minutes ago
Over to you then Sol...
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I've got to shoot off in a minute if you want to post up.


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💬 #LUFC BIELSA: “as Frank Lampard said, he doesn’t believe that I didn’t have bad intentions. He believes I violated the fair play spirit. I have to adapt to the rules linked to the habits of English football”

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💬 #LUFC BIELSA: “If The authorities want to protect the Championship, condemning those who behave with bad intentions or affect the prestige of the league, we have to respect the sanctions against those who make mistakes”

I guess Sky are just going to show highlights - still says it’s coming up.

What a shambles of a station. Happy I don’t pay for Sky now.

That's me done for an hour or so.

So the massive news forcsky is that he’s admitted spying on every team we’ve played this season.

No doubt they’ll want him strung up for his honesty.

Bielsa continued

We have to respect the procedures. I regret the point that I am going to make now because I don't like to talk about me. In my job I am overexposed and I don't like being in the media too much but I think it is important to make this explanation. When you look at the opponent you are looking for specific information. You want to know the starting XI and the strategic set-up and their set-pieces. Those are three key things head coaches analyse.

When you watch a training session from an opponent you get this information a day before a game. Obviously it's not information that can allow you to build a project to neutralise the opponent during a game.

I'm not trying to justify my behaviour whatsoever. We cannot justify it as Lampard said. He does not accept the explanation I gave.

comment by Stoopo (U4707)
posted 56 seconds ago
So the massive news forcsky is that he’s admitted spying on every team we’ve played this season.

No doubt they’ll want him strung up for his honesty.


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Think this was already known.

All the information I need to clarify the game against an opponent I gather it without having the necessity without having to watch the training session of the opponent. So why did I do it? It's just because I thought I wasn't violating a normal thing. As I reach my conclusion. I gather information that I can obtain in another manner. I would like to explain how the brain of a head coach works.

I'm starting to calm down a little, surely if he was going to resign he wouldn't be going into this much detail...

I hope he doesn't go into too much deal on how we assess other teams lol

Might serve as a disadvantage.

anyone able to watch this?

it's fascinating.

it's stopped working on the leedsunited website

He’s not resigning but he’s digging a blooody big hole here

I think he might be trolling everyone

This is basically him telling fat Frank the reason I beat you is because I work a lot harder than you

Apart from the players in the staff you have around 20 people. These 20 people create a volume of information. It's absolutely not necessary. It doesn't define the path of the competition. So why do we do that? Because we feel guilty if we don't work enough. It allows us to not have anxiety. In a few words I am going to tell you something that is not easy to explain. How we analyse each opponent without having to go and watch the training session.

Bielsa now showing a powerpoint

"360 hours has gone into this..."

He is showing Derby County's results from this season now. He's got up from his chair and is explaining how colours on the fixture list show positive or negative cycles.

"Of each opponent we watched all the games of 2018/19 - we watched the 51 games of Derby County. The analysis of each game takes four hours of work - why did we do that? Because we think it is professional behaviour."

I'm getting more and more concerned about how this is going to go, there is no need for him to be elaborating like this and calling press briefings, unless he clearly feels uncomfortable about things now.

I hope the club and he are working together on this because club statement apologising for his actions, I don't think that would sit well with Bielsa who has adamant that he has broken no rules.

Bielsa continuing presentation

He asked someone in the room to pick a game... 19 is chosen. Bielsa is now breaking down the tactical breakdown of Chelsea vs Derby - he is showing analysis of the shape of the starting 11 for Derby and how it changed throughout the fixture.

Bielsa again asks

Manchester United fixture chosen this time... more breakdown of how many chances Derby had to score and which team dominated the fixture at different points. He's going into great detail about how Leeds approach each fixture.

Bielsa showing clips

"I might not be able to speak English but I can speak about the 24 teams of the Championship." - Manchester United vs Derby County being shown on the screen. Bielsa going into detail at how they analyse the positions of each player during games and how it compares to previous fixtures.

Bielsa now showing a spreadsheet

It has full stats of each player from Derby County and whether they have missed any games, goals scored etc.

"I feel ashamed to have to have shown you all this."

One can imagine the Derby board saying to Lampard, why didn't you go to this level of prep?

(He ought to feel proud in my opinion)

Bielsa going into percentage detail

He has a table on the screen which dissects how many games and how often Derby change systems throughout the season

"They've played 4-3-3 49.9% of the season..."

43 the problem is he doesn't, he feels a negative emotion about all of this, still, its a big issue for him.

(Hope this is helpful to anyone who doesn't have a feed of the presser)