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da aposte e ganhe： You may not have to be the most talented player in the world to play for Leeds United, but you have to be willing to work hard.
Indeed, Marcelo Bielsa demands so much from his players in training and on the pitch, and fortunately, it seems as if that hardworking ethos has filtered down into the rest of the club following Carlos Corberan’s comments after Leeds’ U23s match on Monday.
What’s been said then?
The Leeds U23 boss stated that he was more interested in performances than results in his team after watching his side draw 1-1 with Burnley’s youngsters on Monday.
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“There is always more than the result,” Corberan told LUTV, via Leeds Live.
“Results are important in football but more than the results, it is the feeling of the players and what I want to see that our players show the level needed to play in the first team.
“We knew that they are a strong team and are one of the teams in the Premier League.
“But we need to be demanding of our players and ourselves because we want to put academy players in the first team.
“We need to be more demanding and it is important to take that habit because if we as coaches don’t demand these habits and levels from the players, they won’t be ready for the first team.”
Spot on
The manager has hit the nail on the head with this one.
It’s nice to win at U23 level, but when it’s all said and done nobody will reflect on their careers and reminisce about their achievements at that level.
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The fact that Corberan is demanding so much from his players stands them in good stead if the day comes that they’re ever needed in the first team.
Bielsa’s training regimes are infamously tough, and the Spaniard wouldn’t be doing anybody any favours if he gave them an easy ride at the youth levels.
It really feels like working alongside the 64-year-old is paying dividends for his assistant and the younger players.
Based on this evidence, it’s arguably no surprise that so many academy players have featured in the first team since the Argentine and Corberan walked through the door.
Alfie McCalmont and Mateusz Bogusz earned first-team debuts while as of January this year, ten players under the age of 21 had been given senior bows for the club in 2018/19.