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Would be funny if he announces the signing of a new goalkeeper, but this could very well be the end of his time at Leeds.
With him it could literally be about anything. Has he got a new hat? Entering the Indy 500? Taken up yoga?
I respect Leeds fans, huge loyal and passionate following. I went up there in our relegation season and fuck me that was hairy as a youngster. Never had a problem up there since and i think they got more grief down here from our chaps. One of theirs was killed at White Hart Lane in 81 which is fucking outrageous.
Bielsa quitting to fix Brexit?
He couldn’t do any worse.
Coming soon to the house of commons. A small man sitting on the sidelines on a overturned bucket
I called this press conference because we have the classic press conference before playing Stoke City.
And I thought the spy matter would take time I would like to dedicate to the game. My goal regarding this situation of which I am the only one responsible.
I wouldn’t like to mix it with the games and the play.
And if you allow me I would like to make a summary of what happened.
It’s about watching from a public space an activity that is realised in a private space without the agreement with the goal of both gaining sports advantage and hurting the fair play.
I already said I was the only one responsible for this situation. The club is not responsible whatsoever and nobody on my staff is responsible for it.
The person who did that followed my orders and I am the only one responsible.
Many people made an opinion on my behaviour. Many expressing, condemning the behaviour, saying that it was not ethical, that it was immoral. That it was violating of affecting fair play. That it was cheating. This club thought it was obliged to present public excuses to Derby County.
And I was pubicaly told that my behaviour was not respecting the principles of integrity which is the basis of the club.
Many managers, ex-footballers and footballers thought my behaviour was respectfulness. The last point of this situation is that the league after a complaint made by Derby County decided to open an investigation on my behaviour. So they will evaluate if I behaved bad and if my behavoiur affected the prestige of the club or the league.
One other point I would like to talk about is that I’m going to make it easier for the investigation of the league.
I’m going to give the information it needs and I assume the fact that my behaviour is heard from the most extreme position.
In a few words I can tell you we observed all the rivals we played against and we watched all the training sessions of the opponents before we played against the.
My goal is to make the investigation easier and I don’t think that something is going to make worse what they are looking for than what I’m saying right now.
By doing that I assume the possible sanction of the authorities.
I don’t want to compare my behaviour, my situation with previous behaviours regarding this subject.
I’ve heard that there are other behaviours which also effect the fairplay but I don’t want to defame myself by attacking others. I don’t want to point to any other situation that is not linked to my responsibility.
Regarding what I’ve done, it’s not illegal. It’s not specified, it’s not described, its’ not restrained. We can discuss it, it’s not seen as a good thing, but it’s not a violation of the law.
I know that not everything that’s legal is not right to do. You have many things that are legal, but not right, This is true as the fact that all the wrong things you do are not done with bad intention.
Those who behave bad, regarding the subject we talk about, getting information, advantages with what is called cheating behaviour. That’s why I repeat again, it’s not because it’s legal that it’s the right thing to do.
And it’s not because you have a wrong behaviour that you have bad intentions or the intention to cheat.
Of course if you obeserve the situation, we call it spying and we say it’s spying.
I can’t say it’s the right thing to do.
What I’m trying to explain, I didn’t have bad intentions and I didn’t try to get an unfair sports advantage. I did it because it was not illegal and not violating a specific norm. You have norms that are linked to habits, you have norms that are linked to social condemnation ad you have norms linked to what the law says.
Of course I have a point of view, but it;’s not important to other points of view. Lampard says he doesn’t believe I have bad intentions.
He believes that I violated the fair play spirit so I have to adapt to the rules that are linked to English football.
Nobody ignores that all professional members of football want to work in English football.
We have some conclusions, we have some analysis that says the Championship is the 6th biggest competition in the world. With very strong arguments. If the authorities want to protect the competition, condemning those who behave with bad intentions or those who affect the prestige of the league with their behaviour, they create a product with occupies the space it occupies.
So we have to respect the procedures that are chosen and the sanctions on those who make mistakes.
I regret to make the exposition I made now, because I don;’t like to talk about me because as for my job. As I am overexposed to the media, I don’t like being in the media too much. But this explanation is important. When you watch an opponent. You’re looking for specific information.
You want to know the starting XI, the tactical system they will use and hte strategic decisions on set pieces. These are the 3 main axis that the head coach usually analyses. When you watch the activity of the opponent, you get this kind of information the day before the game or you confirm the information you already have. Obviously it’s not information that allows you to build a project which allows you to analyse the game. This is not the norm.
I repeat again: I’m not trying to justify my behaviour. As Lampard said, but behaviour cannot be justified.
And that he does not accept the explanation I gave. And he said the information allowed him to know how to train a team abroad one day.
He wanted to say I should have gathered information to see what was the impact of my behaviour.
All the information I need to plan the game against an opponent i gather it without having the necessity to watch the opponent’s training session.
So why did I do it?
It’s just because I thought I was not violating a norm. As i reached this conclusion, I gathered information that I can obtain in another way, in another manner. I would like to explain how the brain of a head coach works, or at least those who work like me.
Apart from the players in a club you have around 20 staff members.
These 20 people create a volume of information. Absolutely not necessary.
And it doesn’t define the path of the competition.
So why do we do that?
Because we feel guilty if we don’t work enough. Because it allows us not to have too much anxiety.
And we think that by gathering information we feel we get closer to a win.
In my case, it’s because I’m stupid enough to allow myself this kind of behavoiour.
In a few words I will tell you somtehing that is not easy to explain, is how we analyse each opponent without having to watch their training session.
This information I will give you is that this analysis has been done using 360 hours of work.
When I say that I know that people laugh at you when you create this much data.
When you have strong data, it allows you to make a caricature of the one who is saying that.
I am good at give others the opportunity to characterise myself.
I will tell you the info we gather from opponent.
And I thought the spy matter would take time I would like to dedicate to the game. My goal regarding this situation of which I am the only one responsible.
I wouldn’t like to mix it with the games and the play.
And if you allow me I would like to make a summary of what happened.
It’s about watching from a public space an activity that is realised in a private space without the agreement with the goal of both gaining sports advantage and hurting the fair play.
I already said I was the only one responsible for this situation. The club is not responsible whatsoever and nobody on my staff is responsible for it.
The person who did that followed my orders and I am the only one responsible.
Many people made an opinion on my behaviour. Many expressing, condemning the behaviour, saying that it was not ethical, that it was immoral. That it was violating of affecting fair play. That it was cheating. This club thought it was obliged to present public excuses to Derby County.
And I was pubicaly told that my behaviour was not respecting the principles of integrity which is the basis of the club.
Many managers, ex-footballers and footballers thought my behaviour was respectfulness. The last point of this situation is that the league after a complaint made by Derby County decided to open an investigation on my behaviour. So they will evaluate if I behaved bad and if my behavoiur affected the prestige of the club or the league.
One other point I would like to talk about is that I’m going to make it easier for the investigation of the league.
I’m going to give the information it needs and I assume the fact that my behaviour is heard from the most extreme position.
In a few words I can tell you we observed all the rivals we played against and we watched all the training sessions of the opponents before we played against the.
My goal is to make the investigation easier and I don’t think that something is going to make worse what they are looking for than what I’m saying right now.
By doing that I assume the possible sanction of the authorities.
I don’t want to compare my behaviour, my situation with previous behaviours regarding this subject.
I’ve heard that there are other behaviours which also effect the fairplay but I don’t want to defame myself by attacking others. I don’t want to point to any other situation that is not linked to my responsibility.
Regarding what I’ve done, it’s not illegal. It’s not specified, it’s not described, its’ not restrained. We can discuss it, it’s not seen as a good thing, but it’s not a violation of the law.
I know that not everything that’s legal is not right to do. You have many things that are legal, but not right, This is true as the fact that all the wrong things you do are not done with bad intention.
Those who behave bad, regarding the subject we talk about, getting information, advantages with what is called cheating behaviour. That’s why I repeat again, it’s not because it’s legal that it’s the right thing to do.
And it’s not because you have a wrong behaviour that you have bad intentions or the intention to cheat.
Of course if you obeserve the situation, we call it spying and we say it’s spying.
I can’t say it’s the right thing to do.
What I’m trying to explain, I didn’t have bad intentions and I didn’t try to get an unfair sports advantage. I did it because it was not illegal and not violating a specific norm. You have norms that are linked to habits, you have norms that are linked to social condemnation ad you have norms linked to what the law says.
Of course I have a point of view, but it;’s not important to other points of view. Lampard says he doesn’t believe I have bad intentions.
He believes that I violated the fair play spirit so I have to adapt to the rules that are linked to English football.
Nobody ignores that all professional members of football want to work in English football.
We have some conclusions, we have some analysis that says the Championship is the 6th biggest competition in the world. With very strong arguments. If the authorities want to protect the competition, condemning those who behave with bad intentions or those who affect the prestige of the league with their behaviour, they create a product with occupies the space it occupies.
So we have to respect the procedures that are chosen and the sanctions on those who make mistakes.
I regret to make the exposition I made now, because I don;’t like to talk about me because as for my job. As I am overexposed to the media, I don’t like being in the media too much. But this explanation is important. When you watch an opponent. You’re looking for specific information.
You want to know the starting XI, the tactical system they will use and hte strategic decisions on set pieces. These are the 3 main axis that the head coach usually analyses. When you watch the activity of the opponent, you get this kind of information the day before the game or you confirm the information you already have. Obviously it’s not information that allows you to build a project which allows you to analyse the game. This is not the norm.
I repeat again: I’m not trying to justify my behaviour. As Lampard said, but behaviour cannot be justified.
And that he does not accept the explanation I gave. And he said the information allowed him to know how to train a team abroad one day.
He wanted to say I should have gathered information to see what was the impact of my behaviour.
All the information I need to plan the game against an opponent i gather it without having the necessity to watch the opponent’s training session.
So why did I do it?
It’s just because I thought I was not violating a norm. As i reached this conclusion, I gathered information that I can obtain in another way, in another manner. I would like to explain how the brain of a head coach works, or at least those who work like me.
Apart from the players in a club you have around 20 staff members.
These 20 people create a volume of information. Absolutely not necessary.
And it doesn’t define the path of the competition.
So why do we do that?
Because we feel guilty if we don’t work enough. Because it allows us not to have too much anxiety.
And we think that by gathering information we feel we get closer to a win.
In my case, it’s because I’m stupid enough to allow myself this kind of behavoiour.
In a few words I will tell you somtehing that is not easy to explain, is how we analyse each opponent without having to watch their training session.
This information I will give you is that this analysis has been done using 360 hours of work.
When I say that I know that people laugh at you when you create this much data.
When you have strong data, it allows you to make a caricature of the one who is saying that.
I am good at give others the opportunity to characterise myself.
I will tell you the info we gather from opponent.
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He just admitted to having a 20 man strong information gathering team he uses to spy on other teams and to gather general info on them
I wonder how many people he's got to sneak into bedrooms to observe legs and squeeze thighs.