After telling Gary Neville all about his desire to leave Tottenham on The Overlap, Harry Kane has now been discussing his England teammates.
A fresh segment of his chat with Neville was released yesterday, in which Kane heaped praise on Leeds playmaker Kalvin Phillips.
Speaking on The Overlap, Kane said: “He’s done really well. Again, great lad, works really hard. I think at Leeds they have some mad training regime.
“Yeah, he said there’s one, I forget what they call it now, but it’s two pitches together and they play 11 v 11 and it’s literally just man for man on two pitches.
“It’s no wonder he’s as fit as they come.”
It’s particularly interesting to hear his thoughts on Marcelo Bielsa’s Murderball training regime – at least, that’s what we believe he’s referring to.
Word of Bielsa’s relentless methods are clearly starting to spread across the football world.
As Patrick Bamford told talkSPORT, Murderball is ten times harder than a Premier League game.
It involves non-stop pressing, with every player involved, and there are no breaks as a ball is thrown back in as soon as another goes out of play.
Will others now copy Bielsa’s methods?
After seeing how well Leeds played in the Premier League this season, it will be interesting to see if anyone else copies Bielsa’s methods.
Leeds average far, far more sprints than any other team in England’s top-flight, as The Athletic detailed recently.
Their high-intensity style doesn’t give opponents a second of rest, and it’s clearly working as Leeds finished 9th this term.
Of course, it will be hard to replicate all of Bielsa’s methods, as they are not as well documented as Murderball.
However, that specific drill seems to be getting a lot of detailed coverage, so perhaps opposition managers will try to utilise it themselves, in our view.
If that does happen, it’s a compliment to Bielsa and Leeds more than anything, and it’s not something that will just happen overnight.
Bielsa has been training his players in this way for years, and the players at Elland Road really are reaping the benefits.
Copy Bielsa’s methods if you want, but don’t expect to see them come to fruition anytime soon.
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