Bielsa resigns

[BelfastAndy]

Ballbag thread title.

[jimmybn]

Not the best thread title . Calm the **** down

[joellufcprice]

Ballbag thread title.

Caught a big one

[Billyni]

Why is anyone surprised by this thread. Won't be fu ck in long unless something substantial happens soon.

[Billyni]

I mean, why would a top flight manager committ to Leeds unless he was given certain assurances and at the minute I don't see many signs of much being delivered.

[lasher]

Do they not realise that approximately 4 quality additions will send the fans into hyper excitement. Bigger demand for tickets etc. Also a realistic chance of a promotion challenge and starting a snowball effect that Leeds fans would back better than any club !? All this messing about on the cheap is a proven disaster every year !!
Why not pay Hernandez inflated salary ? Theres no transfer fee. Thats how it is. Thats why we paid big wages for Lasogga. Quality comes at a cost. They must know this....??

[WTF11]

Do they not realise that approximately 4 quality additions will send the fans into hyper excitement. Bigger demand for tickets etc. Also a realistic chance of a promotion challenge and starting a snowball effect that Leeds fans would back better than any club !? All this messing about on the cheap is a proven disaster every year !!
Why not pay Hernandez inflated salary ? Theres no transfer fee. Thats how it is. Thats why we paid big wages for Lasogga. Quality comes at a cost. They must know this....??

Knowing, and willing, two different things.

The club have paid a premium for Bielsa and appear to be willing to gamble on him being able to get from the squad that remains that which Christainsen and Heckingbottom weren't, that is performance.

In fairness, many of those who remain performed well in the first two-three months of last season. Why things went sour, I doubt we will ever know. Whatever the reason, and I've said this about other players like Byram, Taylor etc, who had purple seasons then went "off", you don't "get bad" for no reason. If thats the case with the squad "as is", then with the judicious application of young but capable players from the U23s (after all the only signing (loan or otherwise), is a 23yr old), who knows what kind of performances we might see.

The only real gaps are a suitable target man (If we play with a singleton up front, which isn't Bielsas habit), and a GK (less debatable, as BPF should have someone keeping him honest as 1st team GK).

"Lean and mean", or perhaps more realistically, a squad that faces adversity together, small enough to be managed and have real team spirit, big enough (just) to endure the rigours of a Championship season (and a winning run in the FA Cup, remember my long-range prediction!)

[spaldy]

WTF

A well written post and spot on. Not sure I'd ever heard you say we were very good the first 3 months.