Kemar Roofe comments on Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds training sessions

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Marcelo Bielsa was appointed the Leeds United head coach earlier this summer.

Leeds United striker Kemar Roofe has told The Yorkshire Evening Post that new head coach Marcelo Bielsa is not running the players to the ground in pre-season training.

Bielsa is one of the best football managers in the world, and the Argentine’s training sessions can often be very hard and gruelling.

Earlier this month, The Sun reported that Bielsa has been ordering his players to train four times a day.

Roofe, who can operate as a winger or as a striker, has suggested that training under the Argentine has not been as hard as many outside the club would think.

“It’s been very tough,” Roofe told The Yorkshire Evening Post. “But good at the same time. He hasn’t just run us into the ground with people complaining, it’s the total opposite.

“It’s well thought out and there’s a reason behind everything and we are learning every day.”

Important player

Roofe is an important player for Leeds, and the 25-year-old will have to be on top form for the Whites in their quest to finish in the top six of the Championship next season.

The 25-year-old – who has been on the books of Leeds since the summer of 2016 when he joined from Oxford United for a transfer fee reported by BBC Sport to be worth £3 million – scored 11 goals and provided three assists in 27 Championship starts for the Whites last season, according to WhoScored.