Next Manager The Runners & Riders

[PsychoStanleyStone]

I think I read somewhere that Bielsa is on 6m a season and he has an entourage of 26 staff with him which includes three assistant managers, four first team coaches and numerous analysts.

If you look at Leeds United's accounts their wage bill jumped from 31m to 46m the season he joined, and that was with 11 players coming in and 41 going out

it's looking like money really well spent, ok i'm only seeing match of the day highlights but they play some really good stuff and could far exceed expectations and spending, cue them being 6 points adrift at the bottom at Xmas, my gut feeling is analytics can be very tediously soul destroying, but if set up right it could be as much about improving passion, motivation, player profiling and confidence as well as fitness and tactics, might even be about applying the analytics in ways that suit players strengths, what i'm saying is the gut feeling is cold light of day analytics seems detrimental as in being oppressive but not neccessarily the case, Bielsa seems to have all the formula's and secret ingredients right at the moment