10-02-2020, 01:19 PM
(10-02-2020, 12:18 PM)jurgen rober Wrote: Makes me laugh to see Bielsa's comments that Weeds have better players than Forest. I would have thought that a coach of his stature would realise that you do not have to have the best 11 players to have the best team. This is where Forest have improved so much under Sabri. The players are all playing for each other and the team and even the ones not in the starting 18 want the team to do well. The team spirit is so important and that is what got the Blunts promoted last season. You can see it every game with the bench cam, all those on the bench are willing the 11 on the pitch to win and no-one more so than Dawson.
It's difficult to know what Bielsa's going on about but I think he was trying to take some heat away from his players. From what I've read/heard I think he was saying that his players are of a good enough standard to get promotion (ie they have better players) and these players are putting lots of effort in so the issue must lie elsewhere. Accordingly he's the problem, not them.
If Mourinho or Clough were in charge of them at this time, they'd be saying something controversial in the media, maybe picking a fight with a rival manager, so as to take the spotlight off the Leeds players.