Fascinating coach to follow. Still wonder if Leeds will have an epic implosion towards the end of the season because it seems to happen to his teams sometimes and they burn out. But I don't know. I think it's remarkable how he's coached the Leeds players to his very complicated and challenging methods and they've responded so well.
yeah, there's always "something", sadly. Either he ends up fighting the owners/directors for whatever reason, or loses his players' respect or, if he doesn't, they end up imploding due to the intensity of the training regime. He hasn't been able to succesfully "finish" a project in quite a while.
Hell, even here in Chile he resigned when the incumbent ANFP (the FA equivalent) President lost the election and was replaced by a corrupt fucker. Bielsa had already done preparation regarding both the Copa América 2011 process and the Brazil 2014 Qualifiers but when it became clear that the ANFP was going in a "different" direction he decided to resign - he literally said he couldn't work under Segovia (the corrupt fucker who won the election) and he didn't want to, either, and spent pretty much
more than an hour in a press conference explaining his reasons why. Crazy, but principled, fucker. I love the fact that he stood up to his principles and instead of backing a shady c*nt (and keeping a steady and quite juicy salary) he pretty much flipped him the bird publically and told him to piss off.
Then again... that kind of fucked the National Team too. The process got disrupted and Bielsa's successor (Borghi) had a completely different approach to both football and player/manager relationship,
plus he was regarded as an idol/legend by a certain team (Colo Colo) which meant players from Colo Colo's rivals weren't really happy under his guidance. So the NT became really divided and so did the fanbase - a wound that became even deeper when Borghi was fired for bad results and Sampaoli was appointed instead, amidst rumours that the aforementioned 'unhappy' players intentionally downed tools to have Borghi fired and that Sampaoli was having contract talks with the ANFP
while Borghi was still manager. All in all, a clusterfuck, and some people (mainly Colo Colo supporters) haven't forgotten, much less forgiven Sampaoli/said group of players for such an incident.
Anyway... what a digression. Sorry about that