Former Leeds goalkeeper Paul Robinson says Jesse Marsch should concentrate on the future and refrain from criticising Marcelo Bielsa.
Leeds United manager Jesse Marsch took over from Marcelo Bielsa in February and has steered the Whites away from relegation. However, he raised eyebrows earlier this month when he said that players had been over-trained by his predecessor leaving them physically and mentally struggling in the Premier League.
The injury situation at Leeds is gradually improving, and certainly the situation when it comes to the league table looks a lot safer now. However, Robinson says it was unnecessary for Marsch to criticise Bielsa, who did so much to improve Leeds United over several years.
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Speaking to MOT Leeds News, Robinson said: “It’s easy to criticise another manager when your methods are different. I think we have to appreciate what Bielsa did and what he’s done for that club and his methods did work. He improved them and in their first season in the Premier League, they finished ninth.
“Yes, the first thing a manager normally does when they come into a football club is say that the players aren’t fit enough or are not working hard enough. That’s one thing that Marsch couldn’t say about Bielsa’s teams.
“When a man has left a legacy as Bielsa has, it’s best not commented on. Instead, comment on what a great job he’d done, the foundations he’d built and that Marsch intends to pick that up and take the club forward in the way he wants to rather than looking at what he thought were flaws of the previous manager when he’s so highly regarded.”
Leeds United are now 16th in the table. They are eight points above the relegation zone after Burnley drew with West Ham on Sunday.
