Quote Originally Posted by WTF11 View Post
You can't ignore the fact that Bielsa made a middling Championship team into something special, winning games and entertaining everyone with the way they player. Did exactly the same with more or less the same squad of players in the 1st season promoted. Therein lies the answer to your question.

The squad is NOT as good as it needs to be, and the failures of the recruitment policy is at the heart of the issue (I'll drop a little note or two on that in the relevant thread). We continually FAIL to get value for money, we CONTINUALLY recruit players with a record on injury in the faint hope that we can "fix" them (when it's pretty obvious that Bielsaball is unlikely to fix what is already broken), we have a senior management team with a collective myopia when it comes to where the new players might come from )yeah, the xenophobe surfaces), ignoring the resource pool in the UK for reasons that escape me (and no, the players in lower league teams are NOT always "too expensive" (one example of many that are easy to find, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, played just 10 times for his "home" team, Blades, having spent nearly 10 years in total on Blades' books, and joined Everton for £1.62m, someone spotted a bargain, huh?).

It's a case of doing the hard graft that scouting networks used to do (and some still do, obviously), as opposed to staring at laptop screens and glopping away at statistics without understanding what lies behind them. That will never happen at Leeds (at least not at the moment), and you know why? Orta, isn't it always?

Recruiters should be looking more of who created the chances rather than who scored just saying.
As for our promotion we should have gone up the season before but fell apart and as for our promotion the teams around us fell apart so can go either way.
The question is how on earth this clubs have sold there best players and were able to rebound on the cheap where as a team such as ours has done the opposite after spending millions.
That just goes to say poor management all around the club from owner recruiter coach's manager.