Great to see Leeds back in the top flight again! Bielsa is a master tactician. Now there are some real quality managers in the Premier League. Pep, Klopp, Ancelotti, Mourinho and Bielsa.
United were unbelievable in the 99/00 season, winning it by a country mile. Leeds stood little chance, even though they had such a strong team. Utd even went to Brazil for a month, came back and beat Leeds early in 2000 which effectively ended Leeds title tun. Great memories.
Been in Leeds a couple years now, can’t say support but “adopted” them, Bielsa like Clough is v stubborn in his methods but will be quite interesting how they hold up against his students, Pep, Poch if he’s at Newcastle (City are smashing them lol but regardless)
They spent a lot of money on the wrong players. Like Arsenal were buying the likes of Robert Pires for £7 million they bought Seth Johnson for the same amount. They signed Robbie fowler and Robbie Keane for £12 million each and Arsenal signed Thierry Henry and Sylvain Wiltord. They didn’t use there money wisely and put them on ridiculous wages. Bad management at the top level like. Leeds belong in the top flight tho. I watched an old game of Gillingham vs Man City in division 2 play off final and that was 20 odd years ago. I would rather see a big club like Leeds at the top end the prem then a sh*t club like Man City
Keane was a good signing for leeds, but fowler and Johnson was shite for leeds we needed a left back in these days, and they never bought one. Harte had no pace
@@adammac4960 yeah deffo, leeds was robbed 00/01 at home to man u wes brown o.g disallowed for offside ( crnt be offside by an own goal) losing them two points cost us the C.L season after by by a point to Liverpool. They got 3rd. Rest is history
That was a promising team, indeed. Unfortunately there were destroyed by a foolish chairman and an incompetent manager: history will chronicle the Ridsdale-O'Leary nightmare!
This was really the year we should have kicked on and won something. 2001/02. Man United were off the boil before Christmas we were top of the league on 1st January 2002 with a talented team but David O'Leary published a book Leeds United on trial after the Bowyer-Woodgate court case which destroyed morale in the dressing room we ended up 5th missed out Champions League qualification and the rest is history. Naive management by David im afraid
@@keyuantejohnson6266 Chelsea obviously won more trophies and in the long term stayed a top 6 side but Leeds on they're day could beat them and finished higher than Chelsea for 3 seasons in a row
Leeds deserve to be in the premier league but teams like wolves and Sheffield Utd did so well is because they didn't have many expectations so the players just played their own football but with the ceo already saying they want champions league I feel like that would put pressure on their players. So they wouldn't be focused on just playing their football they would be more focused trying to get into the top 4
If previous chairman's hadn't screwed over previous managers Leeds could have returned much sooner, Blackwell, Grayson, McDermott, Monk and Christiansen were all hard done buy and could probably have made it if they were supported financially
@theguy8275 he was better than any manager after Revie and the other mob, where did they get Leeds, to the second division, you must have been born yesterday.
AB72HD They’re not even in the league yet we’ve got no idea how they’ll hold up. Aston Villa and Fulham both spent hugely and it’s likely Villa will be relegated like Fulham were. And nobody expected Shef Utd to be a top 10 team this season but they were. Plenty of teams have won the league and gone straight back down and Leeds could easily do the same
@@reganbrannigan3006 Leeds has Marcelo bielsa not any third rate rundown manger . Leeds will be there in the league for long term . Bielsa is a master tactician and he will be there for the long overhaul , he's already implementing his ideas to the side as well
Worst manager in the history of Leeds United . All he needed to do ( with the biggest and best squad we have ever assembled) was finish 3rd but he finished 4th . Then we gave him even more players and all he had to do was finish 4th but he finished 5th. My mum could have managed those players to a Champions League place .
Don't think he is the worst, your either backwards or blind, who managed Leeds during the mid 70s onwards?, was it Grey and co and how far did they go, to division 2. Grey and Clarke would have been their worst.
MrLukedanger He got sacked for someone despite coming fifth they without him they were 16th but yeah he nearly sent them down. Agree more with Villa in his first year they were sixth and only four points off fourth then tenth they next year before 16th place in 05-06 which their nearly part of relegation battle. Leeds crumbed without him but let’s blame the man who took you to big time again
Everyone laughed when O'Leary spent 18 million on Rio Ferdinand but Rio went on to become world class, I'm not saying Steth Johnson would have done the same but he could have gone on to be a top player, Lampard, Gerrard and Carrick were around the same age as Johnson and went on to have amazing careers over the next few years, O'Leary should never have been sacked!!
He was a rubbish manager lucky enough to have been given loads of borrowed money to spend on players. When the time came to actually manage the excellent squad that he had he was found wanting. If you feel like giving this the thumbs down, first try to think of anywhere he was a successful manager.
O'Leary took over Leeds manager from George Graham about 8 games into the 1998/99 season and finished 4th, in his first full season Leeds were top until after Xmas, got to the semi finals of the uafer cup and finished 3rd, the next season Leeds got to the semi final of the champions league and finished 4th, it was only the second half of the 2001/02 season when Leeds finished 5th that cost O'Leary, he should never have been sacked
