Leeds defender Pontus Jansson comments on training regime.
Leeds United defender Pontus Jansson has told Swedish outlet Fotboll Skanalen that he is disappointed that Marcelo Bielsa’s training sessions are intensifying.
Bielsa is famed for how hard he works his players and he is intent on pushing the Leeds squad.
Jansson has admitted that the sessions have at times left the players tired and while he hoped Bielsa would ease up, the opposite has happened.
He said: “The worst thing for us is that you can sometimes feel tired before the match because we have it so intensely.
“He has a philosophy that if you are tired, then you should train even harder to make it better.
“He has that philosophy and will not change.
“We thought he would understand after a while that the league is a bit tougher and that you sometimes have to be a little smarter about how to train, but he has not changed anything, instead just driven on almost even harder.
“He has his philosophy and does not let it go.”
Bielsa ran into trouble at former club Marseille after a terrific start faded, and he is at risk of the same happening again at Leeds.
The Whites sit in second place, level on points with top side Norwich.
However they have lost four of their last six games and travel to fifth placed Middlesbrough this weekend.
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