Worth remembering that they have to come for Bielsa & any club he manages because he genuinely is a disrupter. By proving that focused application, hard work & guile actually can work, he's inadvertently showing up managers, writers & pundits who are used to coasting. #lufc
When anyone challenges the status quo, they have to be discredited because it makes people working in the industry look bad. Hence why they perpetuate lazy tropes after disappointing results & then find anything at all they can pick at rather than credit us when we win. #lufc
Here's the real secret behind Bielsa's success - he works unbelievably hard at his job & his players/staff do the same. That's literally it. That's what everyone gets defensive about & why he must be belittled, ridiculed, disparaged & dismissed regardless of our results. #lufc
Bielsa's raison d'ĂŞtre is to be supremely thoughtful & if there's one thing we hate it's people thinking or doing anything that might make other people think. This is the era of acting on instinct & blithely accepting the easiest narrative that confirms our own bias. #lufc
Football is still fundamentally a working class sport & there seems to be a genuine concern among the establishment that if people start thinking about football, they might start thinking about others things too. We saw something broadly equivalent with Rashford too. #lufc
Genuinely think that the Spygate presentation remains the decoder for a lot of Bielsa's thinking. I'm convinced that he did it because he didn't want anyone to think that you can succeed just by watching another team train, rather than through unbelievably hard graft. #lufc