‘Gracias Marcelo Bielsa”. These words were emblazoned on the side of a new training complex opened last year at Newell’s Old Boys in Rosario, a port in Argentina best known as the home of Lionel Messi. Bielsa, supporter, player and manager for the football club, had funded the project with £3 million, tantamount to a year’s salary at Leeds United. His explanation was telling in light of what happened at Elland Road yesterday. “I’m actually paying a debt,” he said in reference to the emotional good the club had done for him “rather than making a gift.”Yesterday, after he had ordered his team to concede a goal because Mateusz Klich had scored for Leeds while an Aston Villa player lay injured, he said: “We…

Source: The Times April 29, 2019 11:04 UTC