Leeds United fans have delivered mainly negative reactions on Twitter after Marcelo Bielsa claimed he will not make many signings in this summer’s window.
The newly-appointed United boss explained, via Yorkshire Evening Post correspondent Phil Hay on his personal Twitter account, the club have no plans to “bring too many new faces in” during the current window even though they finished 13th in last season’s Championship.
Bielsa on transfers: "For the moment we're not intending to bring too many new faces in. From my point of view the club have got plenty of players I feel should remain here, who we should keep." #lufc
— Phil Hay (@PhilHay_) June 25, 2018
This met with plentiful responses from a section of Leeds supporters carefully watching out for updates from Bielsa’s first press conference, with comments including “and just like that my optimism has gone” and “bring Hecky back”.
This Is Futbol has rounded up some of the best tweets:
Get him out of this club, bring Hecky back
— BC (@BC_LUFC) June 25, 2018
And just like that my optimism has gone ?
— AdzHenshaw???? (@AdamLUFCHenshaw) June 25, 2018
cue meltdown
— 🙂 (@Max_LUFC) June 25, 2018
Let's be honest, he is not going to come out in the press and say we need 7/8 new players, even if he knows that is the case.
— Ben (@Ben_Spencerx) June 25, 2018
Fans on way to season ticket office and then here that! pic.twitter.com/cbyMkLVgPh
— Richard Watson (@Hifatcontent) June 25, 2018
Twitter meltdown incoming
— LUFC Worldwide ?? (@LUFC_WorldWide) June 25, 2018
One comment and all the negative messages, are we not Leeds fans should we not be supporting the club and the manager and give him time to sort it out. So many unemployed world class coaches on Twitter who knew
— Simon Lascelles (@silas3672) June 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/JoshAHobbs/status/1011237199793311744
Surprised by that.
— Jason Wheelhouse (@Contentable__) June 25, 2018
What????????
— CM (@mou19645) June 25, 2018
OPINION
Bielsa’s transfer revelation has gone down like a lead balloon with United fans who have been eager for the Argentine to wield the axe to a squad that underperformed so badly last season. They don’t want minor tweaks. They want an overhaul, and preferably a radical one. During the lengthy talks with the Leeds hierarchy that preceded his appointment, the new manager clearly came to an agreement over a transfer strategy, as well as the budget available for the wages and fees of new arrivals. Spending significant amounts of money in the Championship often, but always, results in a greater chance of success. Wolves were proof of that last season. But Cardiff were able to get promoted on a middling budget thanks to a top-class manager. There’s nothing wrong with Leeds following the latter route.