Marcelo Bielsa tells Newell's Old Boys story to explain why Leeds United player improvement isn't down

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Marcelo Bielsa tells Newell's Old Boys

story to explain why Leeds United
player improvement isn't down to him
The Whites head coach was quick to dismiss suggestions he was solely
responsible for player development at Elland Road.

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Published 3rd Feb 2021, 11:30 GMT

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Marcelo Bielsa doesn't accept praise for developing players at Leeds United
because he doesn't feel responsible.

The Whites head coach used a story about his time at Newell's Old Boys to
explain his reasoning ahead of tonight's clash with Everton in the Premier
League.

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Bielsa arrived at Elland Road in the summer of 2018 and has swiftly taken the
club from depths of the Championship to mid-table in England's top division.

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Leeds earned promotion to the top flight under the Argentine's stewardship at

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the second time of asking in July, ending 16 years of hurt in the Football League
for the club.

Bielsa has been heavily reliant on players and academy products already plying
their trade in LS11 since his arrival in West Yorkshire nearly three years ago,
adding a sprinkle of international talent in last summer's transfer market.

Two of those signatures in Robin Koch and Diego Llorente have been sidelined
through injury for the majority of the campaign while Rodrigo and Raphinha
have enjoyed plenty of game time.

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United, though, finished the impressive 3-1 victory over Leicester City on
Sunday with eleven players who all featured in the Championship previously
under the 65-year-old.

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Patrick Bamford is just one of those to step up following the club's promotion
last term, having scored 11 goals this season while the form of Kalvin Phillips,
Stuart Dallas, Luke Ayling and Jack Harrison among many others has been
praised.

Bielsa dismissed suggestions that as head coach he was entirely responsible,

believing a player has to be motivated to work alongside a manager to unlock
their full potential.

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In a lengthy explanation to the media, the Leeds boss reflected on his own
experiences as to why it was the case and used a story from his time on the
coaching sta! with his beloved boyhood outfit.

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"Players improve, they drop down, and they improve again," Bielsa said.

"You’re attributing a capacity which I don’t think I have. I’m joined with the
player in trying to get the best out of him so that he can show his capabilities.

"Many virtues that players don’t use are because it’s more comfortable not to
use them. To leave the state of comfort and to get out of the comfort and go
above and beyond is not linked to a manager, but it's linked to the ambition of a
player.

"I’m going to give you an example from 40 years ago. I spent 10 years in the
formation phase of football accompanying Jorge Gri!a, who was an expert in
this.

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"In the club where I come from, Newell’s Old Boys, the formation and
foundation of players was the most important thing. There were always young
players with incredible ambitions. There was always young players who never
managed to show their capabilities due to a lack of ambition.

"There, we worked five or six coaches and every time that a coach had that
player that didn’t shine, every time another of the coaches would say, ‘don’t
worry, next year I will take the best out of him’.

"The player would go through the five coaches that accompanied Gri!a, the

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player wouldn’t triumph and the conclusion, what was it? The conclusion was
it’s not how good the coach was, it’s the ambition of the player and how much
he wants it.

"Coaches don’t make great players. The ambition, the character, the
determination of a player is what allows them to be great players.

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"I was thinking about this subject the other day, because we all had an idea who
we looked up to when we were young. We can say I wanted to be a footballer
because of this player or I stayed in football because of this player.

"So what makes a player into a player? Their imitation that they establish with
a player that they admire, but a player is not a professional player. It’s very
similar, but the professional competes.

"There’s a lot of development in the technical and physical qualities that is very
good. But there’s few other resources to establish a better mindset and to
increase the ambition of a player.

"There's a di!erence between playing, knowing how to play, that's to say take
decisions, and to compete, which is a statement of mind.

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"The most competitive players get the best out of themselves. They show
everything that they bring. This explanation of the story shows that the
attribute, this gift of knowing the potential of a player is not just.

"I gave this long explanation which tires me out so you don't think it's false
modesty."

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