Looking forward to Leeds United

A mid-table Championship team, Leeds United had seen glory days in the Premier League era.

Legend has it that Marcelo Biesla, then coaching at the Argentine club Newell’s Old Boys, recruited young Mauricio Pochettino on the evidence of the size of his thighs seeing him sleeping. He had arrived at the young kid’s home late and did not want to wake him up. Before Pep Guaridola began his managerial career he went to meet Biesla to pick his brains and later called him “the best coach in the world”. When Leeds United representatives approached him before the 2018-19 season began, he flummoxed them with a tactical analysis of every team of the Championship.