re: Leeds United 2022/23 Season-Long Thread: Let’s Farke shite up

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His teams are like Bielsa with more defensive structure

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Well that sounds absolutely lovely honestly

From the Twitter machine today

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Leeds United have begun the interview process aiming to hire a new head coach, ideally before Sunday's game at Elland Road. Several candidates in the frame, all of whom are currently in work

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all of whom are currently in work

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Guess Poch is out then...

From Phil’s new article

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Victor Orta is a known admirer of Marcel Gallardo, the former manager of River Plate where he took charge for eight years, but Gallardo is taking time out after leaving River Plate in October and would prefer his next job to start ahead of a full campaign rather than in the middle of one.

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One of the names interesting Orta is Andoni Iraola, the boss of Rayo Vallecano in Spain’s La Liga. Iraola is young at 40, the youngest coach in that division, but he has been in management since 2018 and his work at Rayo Vallecano has rapidly enhanced his reputation. Iraola could be classed as a disciple of Bielsa’s in the sense that he played under the Argentinian at Athletic Bilbao and watched Bielsa operate at close range. His own tactical style involves high energy levels and an aggressive press, but he is not wholly wedded to Bielsa’s methods.

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Carlos Corberan is another, Leeds’ former under-23s boss who held a dual academy and first-team role under Bielsa at Elland Road. Leeds grew to admire Corberan during his time with them and he was broadly considered an option after Bielsa’s dismissal last year, though the club had Marsch down as clear first choice. The Spaniard was imaginative and seemingly immune to fatigue. When I interviewed him for the Yorkshire Evening Post in 2019, a month-and-a-half before the end of Bielsa’s first season, he had already been on the touchline for 75 competitive matches that term, with the academy and senior squad.

Corberan’s first managerial post in England, at Huddersfield Town, saw him take the Bielsa playbook with him, but after a difficult first year, he dispensed with aspects of Bielsa’s tactics, strict man-marking for one, and built a team who made the Championship play-off final. The difference seen at West Bromwich Albion since he was appointed there in October has been huge: 11 wins from 16 matches and a surge into the top six. Leeds’ sole concern with Corberan is his lack of experience managing in a division as high-level as the Premier League. There would also be no appetite on the part of West Brom to lose him.

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Radz out here tweeting they hope to have white smoke by tonight or tomorrow morning.

Why can’t someone just take away his phone in crucial times? Dude gonna get crushed I’m sure

Please tell me that’s pronounced Sloot.

Corberan off the market after signing a new deal today.

Cheeky tweet from West Brom following that

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He’s my top choice

Which means there’s probably zero chance

Randomly thought of the rumors a few weeks ago regarding some of the players having friction with Marsch. Believe Marsch came out and denied it. Wonder if there was some truth there though.