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

“No special work has been done. I think he has the characteristics to be able to play in that position. The important thing is that the players that compose attack manage to make the attack dangerous. Of course, the fact that James was able to score goals has a special repercussion. To have scored nine goals in the last four games allows us to think that it is an attack that works. After, in some games, in one game, a player scores a goal and in another game a different one does, scores in another, and there are games where you score goals and game where you don’t. There is a mix of how it works and how effective it is that produces final results that are different. But the fact that James scored can be used as a reason to prove me right because the arguments made after the game against Newcastle were also legit in their conclusions.”

“You guys know better than us or me what the best solution is and I have given my opinion on it. To play less, to admit that playing less means that there is going to be less revenue, meaning that the less revenue there is means that we are going to have to earn less, all of us. That’s to say we are all going to earn less, all of us. But when there is not an overcharge of games, where all these games are being played on top of each other, Chelsea play in a World club competition, the Africa Cup of Nations, taking away the nature of all the competitions, all the competitions are worse because of it and of course the English league suffers those consequences more than any because it is the best organised one and the one with the best players. Due to the big organisation that there is, due the veracity that people in football look at it, they interpret it only as a business and anybody who sells something, they make a lot of efforts to improve the quality of what they sell and that is full of activities that go in the opposite sense. You are able to see how the Academies are formed or that what English football does for the formation of the young players is truly extraordinary. There is controlled management of that organisation, the demand that there is for the English players to constantly be better and evidently the product of that work is being shown. The quality of youth football in England is very high. The organisation in football for a young person is very high. England has capitalised on all of that, they were runners up in the Euros and have an enormous amount of young players with a big future so it evidently works to improve the quality of the competition but at the same time it prevents the quality of the competition from growing due to all of the aspects that we have just spoken about and for me it is very uncomfortable to answer the question you have just asked me because I am not an authorised person to have an opinion, I am a foreigner and I am a part of a structure of a club but the media knows this perfectly, they explain it a lot better than I do. Nothing of what I said is a product of my analysis, I read, I see, I listen and I verify what I read, listen and hear. It’s compatible. That’s why I say what I say. But sincerely you guys or you could have prevented me or avoided me from answering this question because the opinion or the response or give is a response through everything that I have read and apart from that there is a great capacity for analysis in the journalism that I read in England. I don’t want to give a specific article or those who write them in particular, nor the subjects of reference in those articles because it will generate elements around those comments . But the opinion that is published has a lot of influence over the public opinion and the subjects of the structure and the morals, the capacity for analysis is very high in these subjects. A great article over the analysis of behaviour, it loses its shine in hours but something of the same subject is more lasting.”

“James is a product of his virtues, not of the habits that he may have acquired here.”

Full transcribe of every word to follow. Team news as you were, no Firpo this weekend.