Bill C ☕🌰🇵🇹

"𝐖𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫-𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧. 𝐖𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 – 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 '𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦'." "𝐖𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐮𝐬." Adam Forshaw, the former Leeds United midfielder, recalls the unique approach taken by Marcelo Bielsa. Forshaw told The Athletic: "He was trying to create a culture of good people. When we first went in for pre-season we used to have to leave our mobile phones in the car for the full duration. 🔗 nyti.ms/3Y5zvfN "We used to do litter-picking around the training ground in between sessions in pre-season. We had reading sessions – it was called 'Reading is Freedom'. That came more from Salim (Lamrani), his interpreter. We’d sit in a circle and read passages ourselves. So we’d all read the same book and then we’d break it down, what it meant. "A lot of times he (Bielsa) would give us homework, it might be an article and then the next day we would sit in a meeting room and talk about the meaning of it. "We were saying that players who were signing would be thinking, 'What on earth am I doing?' You don’t even tell these stories to people because it’s almost like too far-fetched. "But we just hung off every word he said. We thought he was a genius." ✍️ @AdamCrafton_ 🔗 nyti.ms/3Y5zvfN