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Is an actual gangster.

He's called an unexpected presser and given an analytical masterclass to The world.

Says dont know why yall upset I'm spying on Derby, I've done it with every game we've played.

Must have further pissed of Derby further by Outing them talking through the data he has on them from playing formations to detailed analysis on the players.

All this in Spanish.

Almost want to see in the Prem next year.
 
They were saying on the radio he/Leeds pulled a late surprise press conference ahead of the usual pre match conference knowing the journalists from the bigger news outlets couldn't make it on short notice. They won't answer anything about the spying in the pre match press conference.

Apparently a lot of Leeds fans were shiting themselves when they heard about the press conference incase he was walking. I too look forward to seeing him in the big league next season.
 
He seems to pick up useful idiots in the media like Stalin with a short memory and an empty head and a gun stuck in the ribs. He's a man reviving a club notorious for bending or breaking the law. Revie's Leeds bribed and bent their way to titles. Others tried to follow suit. Yes, they're a big club to get promoted, but they're also a hellish one who'll make the Premier League a more dangerous and dubious place. I remember going to Elland Road as a kid - bricks flying, cars being smashed and fights breaking out all over the place. It was brutal. I'll never go again. It's a cheating club glorying in its own cheating history, followed by knuckle-dragging neanderthals. Hoo-rah.
 
He demonstrates stuff that most clubs these days can demonstrate, but don't bother, because they haven't been caught out like fecking Russian mobsters with phials to spare, and the hacks bow down and suck him off. He's like Guardiola with a worse translator.
 
"I with the goal of gaining a sports advantage and damaging the fair play. I already said I was responsible for this situation. The person who did it followed my orders and I am the only responsible one. My behaviour has been debated and many people have made an opinion. Many have condemned the act of behaviour. They've said it was immoral and violated the fair play and cheating. The club thought it was obliged public excuses to Derby County. I was publicly told that my behaviour was not respecting the principles and integrity that are the basis of the club."

"Many managers and ex-footballers said my behaviour was not respectful. The league after a complaint my by Derby County decided to open an investigation over my behaviour so they will evaluate if I behaved bad. One point I would like to talk about is that I am going to make it easy for the investigation of the league. I will give them what they need. I assume the fact that my behaviour is observed. I observed all the rivals and we watched all the training sessions of the opponents before we played against them. My goal is to make the investigation easier."

"I don't want to compare my behaviour with the past. I've heard that there are other behaviours that effect the fair play but I absolutely do not want to defend myself by attacking others. I don't want to point to any other situation that is not linked to my responsibility. Regarding what I have done, what I have done is not illegal. It's not specified and it's not restrained. We can discuss about it. It's not seen as a good thing but it is not a violation of the law. I know that not everything is legal is right to do. Because you have many things that are legal but they're not right. All the wrong things that you do are not done with bad intentions."

"I am going to try and explain that I didn't have bad intentions or get a sporting advantage. I did it because it was not illegal or violating a specific law.

Of course I have a point of view but it does not mean mine is right. As Lampard said he doesn't believe I didn't have bad intentions. He believes that I violated the fair play spirit. So I have to adapt to the rules that are linked to the habits of English football. Nobody ignores that all professional members of football want to work in British football. We have some conclusions. We have some analysis that the Championship is the sixth biggest competition in the world."

"We have to respect the procedures. I regret the point that I am going to make now because I don't like to talk about me. In my job I am overexposed and I don't like being in the media too much but I think it is important to make this explanation. When you look at the opponent you are looking for specific information. You want to know the starting XI and the strategic set-up and their set-pieces. Those are three key things head coaches analyse. When you watch a training session from an opponent you get this information a day before a game. Obviously it's not information that can allow you to build a project to neutralise the opponent during a game.

I'm not trying to justify my behaviour whatsoever. We cannot justify it as Lampard said. He does not accept the explanation I gave. "

"All the information I need to clarify the game against an opponent I gather it without having the necessity without having to watch the training session of the opponent. So why did I do it? It's just because I thought I wasn't violating a normal thing. As I reach my conclusion. I gather information that I can obtain in another manner. I would like to explain how the brain of a head coach works.

Apart from the players in the staff you have around 20 people. These 20 people create a volume of information. It's absolutely not necessary. It doesn't define the path of the competition. So why do we do that? Because we feel guilty if we don't work enough. It allows us to not have anxiety. In a few words I am going to tell you something that is not easy to explain. How we analyse each opponent without having to go and watch the training session."

"360 hours has gone into this..."

He is showing Derby County's results from this season now. He's got up from his chair and is explaining how colours on the fixture list show positive or negative cycles.

"Of each opponent we watched all the games of 2018/19 - we watched the 51 games of Derby County. The analysis of each game takes four hours of work - why did we do that? Because we think it is professional behaviour."

He asked someone in the room to pick a game... 19 is chosen. Bielsa is now breaking down the tactical breakdown of Chelsea vs Derby - he is showing analysis of the shape of the starting 11 for Derby and how it changed throughout the fixture.

Manchester United fixture chosen this time... more breakdown of how many chances Derby had to score and which team dominated the fixture at different points. He's going into great detail about how Leeds approach each fixture.

"I might not be able to speak English but I can speak about the 24 teams of the Championship." - Manchester United vs Derby County being shown on the screen. Bielsa going into detail at how they analyse the positions of each player during games and how it compares to previous fixtures.

Bielsa now showing a spreadsheet. It has full stats of each player from Derby County and whether they have missed any games, goals scored etc.

"I feel ashamed to have to have shown you all this."

He has a table on the screen which dissects how many games and how often Derby change systems throughout the season

"They've played 4-3-3 49.9% of the season... we use this to understand the system and why and when they change the system during a game."

He's now explaining what structures Derby County have faced and what is the most difficult formation for them to face. He does this for every team he says.

"If you ask me what is the most difficult formation for them to face I don't have that information in my head but this document gives me the answer. How do we gather all of this information? We analyse 51 games."

"Why have I done this? I want to show to everyone how we analyse teams."

Bielsa asks for another number... 27 is mentioned this time. It's Bristol City vs Derby. He's now breaking down the chances for both teams and how they dominated each part of the game.

Bielsa now has two videos on the screen... both of a Harry Wilson corner from two separate games.

"When he puts his two hands up we can see what they do... we have evidence to show this."

He's showing all of the attacking play from Derby vs Bristol City.

"There is nearly 40 minutes of it... when you see that you see what is the path for the opponent to attack. If you do the same thing about chances conceded by Derby you can see the defensive weaknesses that they have."

Bielsa says his staff cut down this video into eight minutes for players to look at and analyse.

"The idea is to give the players a look at the opponent in a short space of time."

"We know that over 90 minutes Derby County can use four systems due to all of this analysis. We can see all the players and where they played."

He's showing another spreadsheet... this time with where each player of Derby can play on the pitch listed in a formation.

"We have five of these for all the systems that Derby County play."

He's now showing documents of information gather about each individual of Derby's squad. How many minutes they players at what position... the detail is ridiculous.

Bielsa now picking out Alioski as an example. He's looking at players from Derby that could go up against him at left-back. Analysing each player and what the information tells Leeds about how they could attack down that side.

One journalist has to step outside to meet a deadline... he's accommodating.

There's more to his... he has a final breakdown put into a powerpoint on each individual player from the Derby County squad that he can then look at after all of the information he has explained

"I do not need to go to a training session to find out an opponent. Why do I go? Because it is not against the rules and I didn't know it would cause such an issue. It is partly down to my anxiety."

"When I was a coach of Athletic Bilboa we played Barcelona in a final we lost 3-0. I gave all this information I have shown you on Barcelona to Pep Guardiola. He said to be you know more about Barcelona that me! I do this analysis to ease my anxiety."

He has them all laid out on a shelf underneath his presentation. There must be over 50 folders in place.

"What I feel is I have not done anything unlawful or forbidden."

He's got his goalkeeping coach explaining what the videos are showing... they are displaying Derby's attacking play and who goes where from each set-pieces.

They look at every set-piece and number them up to see how they attack... "does this help? No. Because we kept conceding!"

Finally Bielsa says they make a short video on the opposition goalkeeper (Scott Carson) how they can press or where his weaknesses are.

He's now showing his analyse for Stoke... he's showing 26 games of Luton because of new manager Nathan Jones. Says they are looking at all of what he has shown from his previous set-ups etc.

"This is all and I thank you for your patience..."

Bielsa has now left the building.
 
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who gives a shit, at the end of the day the 2 teams still meet on the pitch and have to try and win the game....

you can pre-analyse all you want, but that doesnt mean the teams will play that way on that day or they will have an off game or be playing 110% out of their skins....

I dont think it really matters either way, managers go to games to watch other teams play so what difference does this make?
 
who gives a shit, at the end of the day the 2 teams still meet on the pitch and have to try and win the game....

you can pre-analyse all you want, but that doesnt mean the teams will play that way on that day or they will have an off game or be playing 110% out of their skins....

I dont think it really matters either way, managers go to games to watch other teams play so what difference does this make?

I think the issue and moralising has been about spying at possible new formations, specific set-piece routines, specific tactical details and other things that are carried out at training grounds.

And I think there's a point in that. If there wasn't, why do teams, including Liverpool, build privacy screens around their training grounds?
 
It's as if the hacks have never heard of what the big clubs' analytical team do. They all have access to this data. The only difference is that he appears to include the irrelevant data along with the relevant stuff - for example, including details about an opponent that goes so far back that there's a different manager, different players and different tactics. Quite how that's supposed to help preparation for a game is a mystery. He's a very good coach and an appealingly eccentric character, but this desperation to accept whatever crap comes out his mouth reminds me of the coverage of Mourinho in his early days. Bielsa might as well come out next week and say he measures the grass and adapts Erasmus Darwin's theories on climate manipulation to improve his team's chances, and they'll sit there and gasp in wonder at his genius.
 
It's as if the hacks have never heard of what the big clubs' analytical team do. They all have access to this data. The only difference is that he appears to include the irrelevant data along with the relevant stuff - for example, including details about an opponent that goes so far back that there's a different manager, different players and different tactics. Quite how that's supposed to help preparation for a game is a mystery. He's a very good coach and an appealingly eccentric character, but this desperation to accept whatever crap comes out his mouth reminds me of the coverage of Mourinho in his early days. Bielsa might as well come out next week and say he measures the grass and adapts Erasmus Darwin's theories on climate manipulation to improve his team's chances, and they'll sit there and gasp in wonder at his genius.

I hope they take the time to wonder how all of this data and genius analysis have contributed to him winning fuck all
 
If we don't regularly have drones flying over our opponent's training grounds before we play them I'll be damned disappointed.

If that isn't SOP amongst the top clubs in Europe I'd be fucking amazed, it's just an easy way to get an advantage with no real way of stopping it (short of playing indoors, obv).
 
If we don't regularly have drones flying over our opponent's training grounds before we play them I'll be damned disappointed.

If that isn't SOP amongst the top clubs in Europe I'd be fucking amazed, it's just an easy way to get an advantage with no real way of stopping it (short of playing indoors, obv).

My dream job - shotgunning down drones over Liverpools training sessions
 
If we don't regularly have drones flying over our opponent's training grounds before we play them I'll be damned disappointed.

If that isn't SOP amongst the top clubs in Europe I'd be fucking amazed, it's just an easy way to get an advantage with no real way of stopping it (short of playing indoors, obv).

Big clubs will just have jamming signals around the training complex to combat this.. Similar to what they are using in prisons..
 
I think the issue and moralising has been about spying at possible new formations, specific set-piece routines, specific tactical details and other things that are carried out at training grounds.

And I think there's a point in that. If there wasn't, why do teams, including Liverpool, build privacy screens around their training grounds?
To keep Dunc out
 
I like Bielsa, but Leeds not so much.

Only good part of them being promoted is they consider United more a rival than us, right?
 
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