‘Terms agreed’ – Journalist delivers big Bielsa news, manager to pay staff from own package
Marcelo Bielsa is very close to signing a new deal with Leeds United, according to Mirror journalist David Anderson.
He said that the new contract is “basically done” and that terms have been agreed for the 20/21 season.
In an interesting update, he also said that “Bielsa will pay his own backroom staff from his financial package”.
It’s just one of the details that have seemingly held up the deal and it shows the level of control Bielsa has at the club.
Anderson finished off his twitter update with the words, “Just needs signing off”.
Bielsa deal – long time in the making
We think everyone knows that the deal will get signed now – it’s the when that’s providing all the intrigue now.
Angus Kinnear said on Thursday, in an interview with BBC Radio Leeds, that he appreciated that Leeds fans would be worried until it was signed and that he would too – before going on to say there was really no need.
And Bielsa is proving quite the draw already – we just hope that his life isn’t disrupted too much by the increased interest he’s bound to get from journalists now Leeds are in the top flight.
This tweet, put out by BT Sport, proves that he’s in for much more intense scrutiny as he goes up against managers like Jurgen Klopp, Pep Guardiola, Frank Lampard and Jose Mourinho.
Much has been made of his simple life in his flat in Wetherby. Bielsa shops in the local Morrisons and walks to Thorp Arch.
We hope that he can carry on living the way he wants to, but we suspect that tabloid journalists might make this impossible as the season goes on.
It’s a point that’s been made by BBC journalist Adam Pope as well.
Talking to OTBSports Pope said, “What he [Bielsa] doesn’t like are questions that come looking for a divisive response. He doesn’t like these contentious, abrasive angles.
“That is probably going to come a lot more in the Premier League and given that it is Leeds United, however.”
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