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

What you’re saying is poorly described. We’ve asked for games to be suspended when the rules gave us the opportunity to have those games suspended. We haven’t asked to suspend games when we haven’t had the reality which would allow that to happen. It’s not that I’m rejecting your praise - the total opposite, I like to be valued. But in this case, your evaluation doesn’t match up with the reality. But it is true that we have used younger players to integrate our teams. To have young players who are part of the formation every weekend has its value. The group is completed, it’s integrated with young players who are in development. And if the club had decided not to counter them, the club should have signed four, five, six players who are older and have a bigger background. To value the work we’ve done. But the real important thing is to manage to create Premier League players. For example, Pascal Struijk is a Premier League player and his origin is identical to those players to whom you are making reference. That is a triumph of the work of the youth teams, because Pascal is a player who has converted himself into a Premier League player, when he started in the immediate team below the first time. So what I think should be judged, or what’s going to be registered as a contribution to the club, is how many of the players who are with the team or accompanying the team, convert themselves into habitual or regular players in the team. For example, if Gelhardt and Hjelde are one of two options for the position they play in for many years, that would mean that they have converted themselves into Premier League players. But that’s still in development, that still hasn’t bee confirmed - they’re taking steps.

It was very important. There’s a phrase that says a team needs to be loved to be able to win, not that they’re loved because they won. All of the teams that are loved are loved because they won. But it is very important to be loved to be able to win. That demands a loyalty and unconditionality throughout the games. To come back from the negative tendency and to develop the play of the team, and from that sense, the fans of Leeds have shown a massive generosity.