Everton v Leeds United - Marcelo Bielsa press conference every word, Kalvin Phillips latest

“I can’t give an opinion on the development of a team but of course the longer they are able to spend with their new manager the better their ideas will be able to be implemented.”

“No, Bamford, Phillips, Cooper and Firpo, like in the game against Aston Villa won’t be considered for the game against Everton.”

“Fundamentally, I think about the offensive game of the team, how best the four positions in attack articulate, the availability of the players to consider and the form of each of them and depending on that I go seeing what is the best decision I can make.”

“More than a question of time it is about what you achieve and whether that strengthens or weakens the link.”

“Of course, evaluating the positions in the league offer conclusions, but with more than 50 points still left to play for, the conclusions currently we have to link them with what is left. But it is also true that what happens, starts designing the future.”

“It is very difficult to predict what is going to happen in a team or a game of football. It depends on things that are only verified on the pitch. You cannot imagine the characteristic of the game without first seeing how each team plans to play the game.”

“Always, in the function of a coach the consequence of what a team does is very important. I am referring to what is obtained or what is lost and that makes it difficult to enjoy it because you are constantly analysing to try and make the correct decisions.”

“In a competition like the Premier League and we have shown it already that no one position can be covered by just one player.”

“No, there is no time for preparation because there also isn’t time for the adequate recovery. The games are scheduled clearly ignoring that aspect, for the commercial aspects, the commitments due to the sales of the games, they make the decisions exclusively dependent on that and all of the aspects to make the competition fair for all of those that contain it, are not bared in mind. The teams are facing each other in different conditions and the games are planned without the possibility of rest and ignoring the potential injuries but that is the same for everybody and evidently there are aspects that increase the difficulty, the complexity and there are also aspects that can be resolved in a better way than the one chosen. But the compromise that should be made for the spectacle of the game and for the fairness of the competition are a second thought.”

“In that position that Kalvin plays, we have had Forshaw, Pascal and Koch and in my opinion none of them have failed in the position. Each of them has a different profile. Forshaw is a more creative player when he plays in that defensive midfield position, Koch is a player that thinks about the equilibrium and the balance of the team defensively, Pascal is a player that gives it a lot of presence and solidity when he plays in front of the defence, and in some ways with them we have resolved the demands of that position.”