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BIELSA AND HIS BAD BACK IN FOR ANOTHER BUMPY RIDE

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The LeaguePaper Team
4 August 2019

By Chris Dunlavy

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’Bielsa’s scarcity of options was equally exposed by the enforced departure of playmaker Samu Saiz.’
SEVENTEEN hours on a plane does nothing for a 64-year-old with a dodgy back, but that isn’t why Marcelo Bielsa turned up late for his team’s summer jolly to Australia.
To the Leeds United boss, it boiled down to a simple choice. Stay in Yorkshire and whip new signings into shape. Or traipse 9,000 miles across the planet to watch ...

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