Leeds Banter Archive August 15 2020

15 Aug 2020 14:19:25
Tony Cascarino is way off the mark tipping Bielsa to dump Leeds for Barca. I believe Bielsa is the type of coach that wants a challenge and the rejuvenation of Leeds Utd is his passion right now. Besides the Premiership is new ground for him, uncharted waters where he can ply his skills and taking a football team from the pit of nowhere to the elitedom of football. So long as Radz backs him within what is reasonable financially, I think Bielsa will accept the challenge and take our great club to those aspiring heights of where we would love to be once more.

15 Aug 2020 17:18:44
See Barcelona back for Bielsa but he’s already at a bigger and better club why would he want to go, tell them we will have Messi. for 2 millions.

15 Aug 2020 17:21:15
Cascarino pub player standard and utter tripe as a ' pundit' looking for easy headlines.

16 Aug 2020 04:59:17
OP He didn't tip Bub to do that. He tipped Barcelona to make an approach. How's TC way off the mark? You don't make no sense. World class clubs desire world class coaches. I think Barcelona qualifies.

16 Aug 2020 05:05:06
Bazi Yes his scoring record for Marseille and Nancy not good not. He was a 1 in 3 striker throughout his career and was an international. Otherwise, spot on.

16 Aug 2020 08:00:14
George, it’s in Cascarino’s estlmation that Bielsa should leave Leeds for Barca, not him personally tipping him, doh! Come on please, have some sense.
Of course Bielsa would fit in as a Barcelona coach, especially with their style of football, but, it’s in my estimation that he would not leave Leeds now because this is his challenge in his career to take Leeds Utd as far as he can so long as he is given the players and conditions to succeed. Bielsa is not your average Coach and is certainly not a mercenary one, if you didn’t know that already.

16 Aug 2020 08:56:46
Bielsa is Leeds now

This is probably the first time since NOB he’s had a chairman and board giving him everything he asks for to do his job.

Sometimes the most important thing in a job is to feel you’re valued

I think that’s what MB feels he has at Leeds and this is finally his chance to build a club from the bottom up

Similarly to wilko came in. Although then the club hired a brickie building a detached house, this time we are led by an artist building a cathedral

Enjoy the ride people.

16 Aug 2020 10:51:45
George Boy
watching lump of wood, couldn't trap a bag of cement Cascarino trying to play football was akin to watching centre forwards playing in a pub league.

He was definitely NOT a technically good footballer and that is being diplomatic.

Yes in his early to late 30s he scored goals ( probably most with his lump of a head ) in France Ligie 1 and 2 but how good a standard were those leagues then? Substandard is probably the answer.

Tony Cascarino failed utterly at Celtic, Villa and Chelsea and was derided by the fans of each club.

Casacarino best known for his quote of his time at Celtic :
' I couldn't hit a cows backside with a banjo' says it all about his lack of ability.

As for his 1 in 5 international football career Jack Charlton didn't really rate him but
Ireland were bereft of strikers and had little to no choice

you could have got a game Georgey Boy up front if your great grandmother was Irish 😉🥴.

16 Aug 2020 13:06:23
Cascarino goals were mostly headers, I remember Villa fans chanting “Cascarino in the air” he was a Sunday league player who was gifted in netting the ball with his head. and that was it!
He’s got some knowledge of football but like most ex player pundits they talk out their backside to make a few quid. Him and Georgie Bingham suit each other perfectly talking about the contents of their fridge and what it’s like to have a frontal lobotomy. 😴.

16 Aug 2020 13:33:48
Spot on OP regarding Sunday league player Cascarino reliant on scoring with his head rather than his feet.

15 Aug 2020 09:12:07
If Barcelona call think Bielsa will go. Can he sort out the situation there domestically yes definitely even with the current squad . In Europe it will be more difficult . Playing in Spain the squad has enough players of quality, with a few really world class. When they played against B Munich they had too many players who are just not up to that standard.

15 Aug 2020 10:26:52
Not so sure, I think Bielsa has learned that established top players already think they are special so won't adapt to a new way of playing.
Cant imagine too many of them picking up rubbish in the Nou Camp parking lot!

15 Aug 2020 10:27:17
IMO, Barcelona and Bielsa is not a fit, too many ageing players, prima Donna's who wouldn't accept the Bielsa way, club will wantvto bring in superstar players, Bielsa wants his players, can't see Barcelona being happy signing players who aren't known but Bielsa wants because he sees something in them.

15 Aug 2020 10:41:28
Can't see it, bielsa being offered Barcelona, regardless of what he said I feel pocchetino will jump at the offer to manage his teams rivals .

Surely the Barcelona board would have a younger man in mind, amazing to think that this current Munich side were in such a rapid decline before Hansi Flich arrived,

Imagine also if alphonso had managed to sort himself out at Swansea, would he have progressed as he has done at Munich . Incredible potential.

15 Aug 2020 12:47:33
Let’s remember that Bielsa only goes anywhere and stays there on his terms, carefully and painfully negotiated. I don’t think Barcelona would be able to agree to what Bielsa would want to do and it is probably more than a one year job! But I think he would listen if offered the opportunity as would anyone. In some ways he does fit the job Barcelona need to do, establish a new culture, with players committed to it and with a focus on bringing youth through. But he would need a president prepared to support him through some intial carnage!

15 Aug 2020 17:30:56
If Bielsa is tbe honourable man I believe he is

Then there is little chance to no chance he will mess Leeds United around and leave Leeds United in the lurch at the very last moment to go to any other club.

16 Aug 2020 06:23:14
Bazooka, I don’t think Bielsa is messing us about, he had a one year contract that has expired and both the club and him are still negotiating the extension. Both sides free to explore other options.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Bielsa and what he has done for the club, but his track record ‘and age don’t suggest that he will be at the club long term. He has done the job he was brought in to do and helped change the culture of the club. For that we should be ever grateful. He is though very conscious about how things can change very quickly and the job this year is very different one.

Very early on in Bielsas reign I met two mad Marseille fans who loved Bielsa, they said, “ enjoy him and every moment you are lucky to have him as a coach, it’ll be crazy, it won’t last for long and you’ll really miss him when he’s gone”!

If he got the chance to go to Barcelona, I wouldn’t begrudge him that, in fact they’d become my spanish team! Here’s an idea, Bielsa and Pochettino working together with the plan for Pochettino to take over longer term and build a dynasty!

16 Aug 2020 10:01:57
Well time will tell Spanish hopefully Bielsa remains the Leeds manager this season 20/ 21 I am confident he will.

16 Aug 2020 10:53:24
Spanish, you’re right

Big difference between Marseille and Leeds is our chairman

I think he realises that MB Is the key

The best leaders pick the best people for positions and let them do their job without interference.

15 Aug 2020 02:47:59
Maybe when things become normal. Our club can meet up with you guys in Leeds.
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