Sadly I feel Carlo Ancelotti is coming across as motivationally and tactically inept lately. If these type of performances carry on into next season I can see him gone by the end of the year; we can't get by on just winning away.
Hopefully, he can make a few decent additional signings (and offload some of our deadwood) in the summer. I still want to see him given more time, but how much longer is Farhad Moshiri willing to throw millions after millions down the drain only to end up pretty much where we've always been.
I dont think Carlo will go either he'll get next season minimum you feel but Im not having Biesla wouldnt come here - people said the same over Koeman + Ancelotti money ultimately talks.
I think the pressure will be on the club next season though we simply have to get better but I dont think we will - we look clueless.
If you think Bielsa is motivated by money then you’ve got him all wrong. The man lives in a flat above a corner shop and only wears tracksuits. If you think throwing 11.5 million at him will turn him. Then he’d never come
Bit of perspective on that needed.
Bielsa june 2018.
Carlo December 2019
, to stamp his mark, with Carlo accessing the squad during the jan 2020 window. Amount of pre seasons at each club.
And how much rebuild did bielsa need at Leeds in the first place? ( a genuine question, because Carlos is a big rebuild needed)
Leeds were 13th in the championship when he arrived. As for the number of transfer windows to build his squad. His first season consisted of 3 players from the team that finished 13th the season before. But bamford missed 6 months due to 2 knee injuries. The other 2 were Jack Harrison and Barry Douglas who’s already left.
2nd season
sold Pontus janson and sold Kemar Roofe loaned Ben white- went back to Brighton
loaned Eddie nketiah who went back to arsenal in January.
loaned Costa
Loaned messlier, who was back up keeper last season,
both were made permanent last summer on promotion
this season-
Rodrigo- injured half the season
Llorente- injured until February
Koch- injured in December & was out for 3 months
Raphinha- played consistently.
so Bielsa has taken a team of “championship plodders” to quote someone earlier to within 3 points of Everton, with 1 signing consistently playing from September to February & all 4 signings been on the pitch together for approx 1 hour this season. Leeds fans are thinking if only they’d been fit all season where could we be.
Bielsa took a couple of goes to get the highest budgeted side out of the championship, he’a not won much in his career, he’ll probably finish below our terrible team this season, and there’s some very worrying losses in there. It’s not as though we’re hiring a sure thing like 04 Mourinho. Bielsa is a maverick who could go either way.
that’s not true we had the 7th highest budget in the league
all this matters not though, as from the outside I know it’s hard to understand but the man is a socialist is totally honourable if he feels he’s been let down or promises have been broken he will have no worries about walking away as he did with lazio, but if he’s happy he wouldnt walk out on Leeds, he has complete control and Leeds meet his needs if he wants alterations to the training ground it’s done if he wants light switches moved by millimetres it’s done. He buys into the city the history and restoring clubs, which if you’d have approached him before Leeds I’m sure he’d have been all over it but he’s in it with Leeds now and he won’t walk away from it.
