Speaking on his podcast, Phil Hay has been speaking about the final weeks of Marcelo Bielsa’s tenure at Leeds and some of the changes he made in training.
Things haven’t been going well for Leeds for a little while now, and as the saying goes. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Bielsa knew he had to change something, so he made training more intense, much to the disdain of the club.
With Leeds going through a terrible injury crisis, the last thing you’d expect is for training to be made even more intense, but Bielsa doesn’t work in a conventional manner.
Sadly for the Argentine, his methods eventually led to the club becoming frustrated with him.
What’s been said?
Hay shared what he knows.
“He just isn’t going to change, one of the things that was frustrating the club was the fact that injuries this season have been horrendous, but training was not easing off, on the contrary, it was intensifying. Murderball was no longer just once a week, it could be a couple of times a week and sometimes even more. So it was putting big physical strain on the players, but as I’ve said, if you go to Bielsa and tell him to ease off training, he’ll say ‘that isn’t what I do.’” Hay said.
Unable to adapt
One of the main criticisms that has been fired at Bielsa over the years is that he’s unable to adapt, and this is yet another example of that.
The Argentine thought the answer to his problems were to make everybody work harder, but when injuries are your main issue, you need to make things less strenuous for your players.
Sadly, he failed to realise that and this change in training may have contributed to the gaffer eventually losing his job.
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