Imagine, just imagine if they waited all this time for promotion and they don’t get to attend a single premier league match and get relegated. If Carlsberg did Leeds promotions...
I was thinking that about Liverpool. They can't really wait to celebrate their first title win in 30 years as the cup will no doubt be with another team by the time they're allowed!!
They might not see any games this season but that will apply to all fans of all clubs, but they certainly won't go down.
as much as I want them to go straight back down I can't see that happening as they seem to have more options than at least 6 or 7 teams at the moment. They more than likely will finish mid table
I just feel they play too open a game for premiere league I know they can change that but we’ll see as season goes on
I think they'll finish bottom six. Despite the massive Bielsa love-in he hardly over-achieved getting Leeds promoted like the media would have you believe. He had an £18m winger on loan, a £25m centre-back, and they were paying out decent wages. They should have got promoted. No doubt he's a fantastic coach, person and man-manager, but he's hardly got a successful CV when it comes to winning anything in football. Imagine winning a league you were joint favourites to win and getting a street named after you.
Plus he looks like the scruffy bloke who always sits in the same seat at the bar in the local boozer who steadily gets his way through 16 pints from 2pm in the afternoon till closing time and often pisses himself.
I think they’ve been quite lucky up to now. In both the Liverpool & City games they could’ve been 4 or 5 down after 30 minutes. They deserve credit for coming back into the games & been the better side in the second half’s of them matches but on a normal day they’d have taken two beatings. They got away with it at Sheff Utd as well. Lundstram missed a sitter & for me they were denied a stone wall pen only for Leeds to nick it in the second half. I think they’ll stay up but I’d be shocked if they’re top half. I’d expect them to fade late in the season like Bielsa’s teams always tend to. That’s unless there’s another 3 month break through corona virus so they can all come back refreshed for the run in like last season.
Eh? Cv doesn’t shout winner? He’s literally famous for winning stuff with teams unexpected to win back in his home country, he basically won everything. He won promotion last year and was unlucky not to year before. Other then Bielsa burnout he’s basically always done well.
6 titles btw just checked. And tbh should have won more with Argentina but his team let him down as Argentina regularly do
Tbf they ve played some lovely football since his time there . And he's stayed with them for longer than most of his clubs.
He's played some lovely football at all of his clubs. Doesn't change the fact that he's the equivalent of Harry Kane but as a manager. I like his personality and his style. Just think because he has done it with Leeds the media have turned the dial up by a thousand. Nailed on bottom half this season.
Key being back in his home country. Lazio, Lille, Bilbao, Marseilles - not a trophy. A trophy with Leeds but in the second tier of English football. Granted they are unfashionable clubs not expected to win much, but the point still remains.
I only find three titles plus the Summer Olympics and some pre-Olympic tournament. And then the Championship with Leeds where they were favourites and paying their manager more than £80k a week plus bonuses. He hasn't won a top division title or cup in club football since 1998. That's not a serial winner.
he’s on record saying he only joins teams with working class roots that match his home town, so it’s safe to assume he’s turned down massive jobs for easy titles to take on projects. He’s done well everywhere he’s gone, winning titles isn’t the sole tracking of success especially if you join clubs unlikely to win something, by your logic Pochettino is a failure as he didn’t win anything at Spurs or Southampton, which is far from true. Leeds are extremely lucky and IMO have one of the best coaches in world football, he’s succeeded with a team others failed with, the team isn’t much different two years ago to the team Hecky couldn’t buy a win with.
Surely you can see the hypocrisy of only taking jobs with working class roots and then being on a salary that is more than the likes of Sean Dyche? Hardly a working class hero is he? Pochettino won't be deemed a great manager until he wins something of note. He did a decent job at Southampton, as is the gaffer there now, and Spurs played some great football at times. But without the heroics against Ajax and the controversial goal against Citeh his record doesn't look as good as it does. I've already said Bielsa is a good coach, obviously well-respected, and obviously a great man-manager and person. But he gets put on a pedestal beyond his achievements in football in my opinion. That's all.
well he’s paid for his name, just like I’m sure Ancelloti, Mourinho etc all get paid top wages at any club they go to. They wanted Bielsa as he would fix what many managers before didn’t. I think he’s even been sensible transfers wise and kept a lot of the existing squad which others clubs rarely do once promoted
