
Marcelo Bielsa has always prided himself on developing youngsters into being ready-made first team regulars. However, he has admitted that he is to blame for 4 players who couldn’t make that step up.
Highly rated youngsters Robbie Gotts, Jordan Stevens, Bryce Hosannah and Alfie McCalmont all left the club this summer (with the latter being a loan deal) and Bielsa has revealed that it his his fault they couldn’t make it at Leeds. “The fact that Gotts is not here, Stevens is not here, Alfie is not here, Hosannah is not here, I live it as a failure, all those players who were close to the first-team but didn’t manage to get there – it’s a failure of my job,”
Bielsa clearly takes his inability to develop these players to heart, as he continued “the first opportunity the most important one is when we think they could be a starter, and they show that they can.” He admits that they ever showed they could be starters for the club, but suggests that it his his fault they were unable to do so.
