Post by weasel on Jun 14, 2018 6:41:22 GMT
As the wait for the appointment of Bielsa carries on the more I think it is a good thing - barring of course Bielsa accepting a job elsewhere. It would have been very easy for Bielsa or any other coach/manager to simply see the job as only a payday and as such they would have accepted the job very quickly and then brought in their mates for a big pay day too. Could you imagine the likes of Pardew, McClaren, Allardyce etc taking this long to accept the job - no they would have taken up the job and done the usual press conference saying how big a club Leeds was etc etc but it would just have been another pay day. Yes they would have wanted to do well but equally if they failed abysmally, such as Heckingbottom did, they would have simply get the sack, pick up a huge payoff and move on to the next job - how Heckingbottom can get a £500k payoff having done so poorly is disgusting.
It seems to me that Bielsa is meticulous and is probably a little embarrassed by his failures in recent jobs. So much so that unless everything is perfect in his eyes then he doesn't want to take the job. He wants his backroom staff assembled and presumably has given the club a list of players he wants them to try to get. If it simply boiled down to his own wages then it would have been resolved, one way or the other, along time ago. Logic suggests he has anaylsed his failings and wants to get it right this time and would rather walk away than simply take the job as just a payday.
Of course I may be totally wrong and he may be dragging things out just so that other clubs know he is available and he may be hoping to land a 'better' job but it doesn't feel that way to me. He won't be in line for the real top jobs as they either go to managers with better cvs than him or high profile retired players. The players he has influenced have gotten the top jobs he probably craved as they were the big name appointments. This may well be Bielsa's last job and I feel he desperately wants to end on a high and would rather walk away than take a job where he didn't feel he could succeed.
It seems to me that Bielsa is meticulous and is probably a little embarrassed by his failures in recent jobs. So much so that unless everything is perfect in his eyes then he doesn't want to take the job. He wants his backroom staff assembled and presumably has given the club a list of players he wants them to try to get. If it simply boiled down to his own wages then it would have been resolved, one way or the other, along time ago. Logic suggests he has anaylsed his failings and wants to get it right this time and would rather walk away than simply take the job as just a payday.
Of course I may be totally wrong and he may be dragging things out just so that other clubs know he is available and he may be hoping to land a 'better' job but it doesn't feel that way to me. He won't be in line for the real top jobs as they either go to managers with better cvs than him or high profile retired players. The players he has influenced have gotten the top jobs he probably craved as they were the big name appointments. This may well be Bielsa's last job and I feel he desperately wants to end on a high and would rather walk away than take a job where he didn't feel he could succeed.
