COYB75
Player Valuation: £5m
I've come over all emotional with your fine words.
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That's it nailed on the head.
If it was pre season I would want Bielsa all day long.
But he would need time and different players than we currently have to make work.
We don't have the time
Looks like we don't have the money to buy the players for him.
At this moment we need someone that can work with this squad.
Get simple tactics drilled into them and move upwards hopefully.
There are enough players in this squad to give us a fighting chance of staying up.
Unless we are selling Gordon I suppose. But time is quickly running out
Possibly mate.
If we are serious about Bielsa I would be onto City to try and loan Phillips of them seems to have fell out with Pep.
We would need different defenders as well
*headpats in Yorkshire*
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Do we?
Jim Kirk
Player Valuation: £150k
I know it comes across very weird, this obsession culty type behaviour that Leeds fan have about Biela. It is very weird, lets face it - but it is real. We have sacked loads of managers in my time. My reaction to all of them has either been complete apathy (so what?) or "Good, he was sh*t - get someone in".
The day Bielsa got sacked, I was flying out to Antigua to watch the cricket. Been looking forward to it for ages. It was a 9 hour flight, and I'd taken Phil Hay's book on Bielsas' Leeds as my reading for the plane. Got the sacking news about an hour before take off. I couldn't even look at the front cover of that book for weeks, never mind start to read it, without welling up. I very nearly broke into tears on the plane, and I honestly arent the type thats prone to that kind of thing - can't remember the last time I cried. It felt like a bereavement.
I am well aware that that is a totally ridiculous way to feel about a football coach. It's pathetic really, and not something I actually understand fully either - My head tells me that. Even so, its what happened - and many fans had a similar 'aftermath'.
Just as weird, I hope he does get the Everton job and make it a success. Not for any footballing reasons - it would probably hurt us in truth - the thought of you staying up with Bielsa and us going down with yank lampard is the stuff of nightmares. Just because, more than anything else in this situation, I just want Bielsa to find another place he can sit in a flat and watch endless football games and be happy. Wanting a former manager to manage a rival, be successful and genuinely hope he is happy is not normal, and difficult to justify. Its probably why this thread is flooded with Leeds fans (in stark contrast to the Dyche thread) - We just want him to be Ok.
So hire him and let him spread mass mental illness through your fan base like some kind of socially awkward Uri Geller. Its a unique experience.
The day Bielsa got sacked, I was flying out to Antigua to watch the cricket. Been looking forward to it for ages. It was a 9 hour flight, and I'd taken Phil Hay's book on Bielsas' Leeds as my reading for the plane. Got the sacking news about an hour before take off. I couldn't even look at the front cover of that book for weeks, never mind start to read it, without welling up. I very nearly broke into tears on the plane, and I honestly arent the type thats prone to that kind of thing - can't remember the last time I cried. It felt like a bereavement.
I am well aware that that is a totally ridiculous way to feel about a football coach. It's pathetic really, and not something I actually understand fully either - My head tells me that. Even so, its what happened - and many fans had a similar 'aftermath'.
Just as weird, I hope he does get the Everton job and make it a success. Not for any footballing reasons - it would probably hurt us in truth - the thought of you staying up with Bielsa and us going down with yank lampard is the stuff of nightmares. Just because, more than anything else in this situation, I just want Bielsa to find another place he can sit in a flat and watch endless football games and be happy. Wanting a former manager to manage a rival, be successful and genuinely hope he is happy is not normal, and difficult to justify. Its probably why this thread is flooded with Leeds fans (in stark contrast to the Dyche thread) - We just want him to be Ok.
So hire him and let him spread mass mental illness through your fan base like some kind of socially awkward Uri Geller. Its a unique experience.
Drico
Player Valuation: £60m
In many ways, this is the ultimate style over content debate in microcosm.
My ego, my image of Everton, demands a visionary manager, a man of renown, somebody to respect. In so many ways, despite his faults, Marcelo Bielsa is that. If this was June and we had finished 17th, I'd be very excited by Marcelo Bielsa. He would burnish my pride in Everton, make me feel good about myself.
On the other hand, my survival instinct tells me that my pride needs to take a back seat right now. We need a Red Adair or, dare I say it, a Sam Allardyce, a specialist in getting the basics right - no trimmings, no bullshit, no frills. Sean Dyche, to me, is an acceptable Allardyce. Keep us up and then we can talk.
That said, I feel we've left this two months too late and we're actually just in pure panic mode now. It took the clowns on our board two months to see that Lampard was a dud. It took defeat to a caretaker at Bournemouth, bottom-placed Wolves, bottom-placed Southampton, and a David Moyes on the brink of the sack to see that behind Frank Lampard's veneer of gold lay...nothing.
So, I have zero expectation we will win three more matches this season. And that won't really be the fault of whichever lottery winner we bring in now the horse has bolted.
My ego, my image of Everton, demands a visionary manager, a man of renown, somebody to respect. In so many ways, despite his faults, Marcelo Bielsa is that. If this was June and we had finished 17th, I'd be very excited by Marcelo Bielsa. He would burnish my pride in Everton, make me feel good about myself.
On the other hand, my survival instinct tells me that my pride needs to take a back seat right now. We need a Red Adair or, dare I say it, a Sam Allardyce, a specialist in getting the basics right - no trimmings, no bullshit, no frills. Sean Dyche, to me, is an acceptable Allardyce. Keep us up and then we can talk.
That said, I feel we've left this two months too late and we're actually just in pure panic mode now. It took the clowns on our board two months to see that Lampard was a dud. It took defeat to a caretaker at Bournemouth, bottom-placed Wolves, bottom-placed Southampton, and a David Moyes on the brink of the sack to see that behind Frank Lampard's veneer of gold lay...nothing.
So, I have zero expectation we will win three more matches this season. And that won't really be the fault of whichever lottery winner we bring in now the horse has bolted.
Who's Emotional ???
COYB75
Player Valuation: £5m
That would be a serious breach of confidentiality!
Kaputz
Player Valuation: £25k
Inappropriate Behaviour
Gimp
Lobster Johnson
Player Valuation: £35m
Just do this one thing for me, Everton. At least bring a little entertainment back.
Ey them Fish butties from The fishamens wife in Kirkgate Market are best thing about Leeds...utterly biblical
I think sadly those days are on the back burner for a while.
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