Leeds United v Newcastle United: Every word Marcelo Bielsa said in his pre-match press conference

Marcelo Bielsa takes his seat.

The difficulty, sometimes they are interpreted as obstacles, but sometimes it’s a situation to fortify the strength of the group. Up until now in the season, we’ve been constantly challenged, and we try to improve the quality of our responses in the face of adversity.

I don’t think so, but it’s not important what I think. The important thing is to trust those who administer the rules in that sense. Because there’s rules that define whether a game or cannot be suspended, and the condition you have to demonstrate for the game to be suspended, and because I trust in those who administer these decisions, and so I trust that when games were suspended, they met the criteria for them to be suspended. The question is not do the clubs take advantage of the rules, but it’s the question of if those who evalute them do well or badly. For a club to take advantage, there has to be an evaluation that was wrong or mistaken, because the rules have to be sufficiently clear.

Forshaw and Firpo have muscular injuries. Bamford has a new injury at the bottom of his foot. He’s overcome his muscular problems but now he has an issue at the bottom of his foot.

Yes.

I don’t have a capacity to pick when the games are rearranged. They’re not decisions that I make.

Whatever the authorities say. Coaches don’t have the opportunity to decide when the games are played because that does allow for speculation.

I prefer to speak about the player when it’s not a hypothetical possibility but when he’s actually our player.