Barry Douglas | Bielsa Ran Us Till We Broke

[@markbarber5959]

Excellent podcast as per normal. Best thing about this podcast is you actually let the guests speak and don’t make it all about yourselves. Makes for great viewing and you get so many good stories and interesting conversation. Best Pod on KZbin for me.

[@MichałTelus]

Barry Douglas, two-time Polish champion with Lech Poznań. He can tie a tie with his left foot. Funny guy and part of KKS's winning history. Nice to hear him

[@dhtmo]

Will never forget that left peg of Barry's for Wolves. Gave us so many memories, especially that free kick away at Ashton Gate. Those deliveries were undefendable! Great lad, too.

[@adamsmith5106]

Great player for us at Wolves. One of the best at set pieces and had a great season for us. Was disappointed we sold him and that he didn't get a chance with us in the premier league.

[@lloyddossantos1800]

Always making my Monday evenings a good one. Thanks as always guys.

[@marshalllaw3995]

More episodes like this please, always love the stories from players playing abroad in these mad countries 😂

[@EduardoSalamanca6]

Most mental accent I’ve ever heard 😂

[@alan5327]

This guys from mosspark, what the actual fuck😂😂

[@josephh4999]

That is a mental accent for sure 😂 nice bloke!

[@DJR1409]

Which one?!!!!

[@Ross-t2f]

Up there with Iain Hume

[@darmate14]

Sounds northern Irish

[@OldWolflad]

Another Wolves fan here, loved Barry Douglas, super left back. Two tremendous goals stand out for me in that wonderful season, which is my favourite season in the 54 seasons I have seen since 1969. The free-kick v Leeds.......what technique. Just superb. Also a lovely right foot finish v Reading into the top corner in front of the South Bank. Thank you so much Barry!

[@JMatthew131]

I was in the away end that wolves game you killed us that night but we was poor at that point. Unreal free kick

[@lord--wolf8058]

His best season was at Wolves. What a left peg. Miss you Barry 👍🐺🐺

[@think2secondsback2wheniasked]

loved him at wolves, unreal freekick taker for us too

[@rtruth5240]

We never got to see the best of him at Leeds but he was well liked

[@samconway7091]

Unreal at wolves for that year his left foot was a wand, gutted to see him go

[@Ash-c8q]

Like how Barry doesn’t complain and keeps saying about different cultures for the managers like bielsa and nuno

[@lozcontreras]

I DJ’d the secret players/staff party when Leeds got promoted during Covid. The majority of the people there were absolute bel***ds and a nightmare to deal with. Barry Douglas was one of the nicest and most genuine guests. Proper polite sound guy. I got him to have a cheeky mix on the decks in the end. Championship winner with Wolves Championship winner with Leeds #ChampChamp

[@RyanDogs]

Really? That's surprising a lot was made of how nice that squad supposedly was

[@JDH066]

Love Douglas, massive part of my favourite ever Wolves season. Obviously Jonny came in and it worked out great for us, but would have loved for Barry to get a chance in the prem, set pieces were a joke

[@JoeyJones-golf]

i love parky what a boy 👌

[@Calum10]

What a man loved that season he had for us gutted he didn’t get a chance with us in the prem 🐺

[@BradleyM94]

Great lad and unfortunate not to get more game time at Leeds. Hope he gets another club

[@rugbyanalyst1]

Very recently signed for St Johnstone. Great interview.

[@dmg8025]

He sounds like a polish guy who learned Scottish. Not the other way round

[@playlist9980]

He sounds like a Glaswegian who's lived in England for a long time.

[@snookerstones]

Really interesting career - another great podcast 👏

[@tonyantoniou9271]

Fascinating !

[@Lukerodgersbeeston]

These fellas need educating. Bielsa's Leeds team never fell off a cliff. We maintained every single stat fitness wise, apart from Douglas (shock lol). We failed due to massive injuries and a squad that had peaked ability wise. Bielsa told the board we needed a full revamp the summer before he went. They couldn't afford to, and the rest is history.

[@JMatthew131]

Correct once we lost bamford and KP too injury it was done. I had to watch Dan James as a striker loool

[@harrysturgess2376]

@@Lukerodgersbeeston I agree, but we also have to be fair and acknowledge that the style of play had been massively figured out. The decline and relegation was avoidable by picking up the players he wanted, but I don’t think we’d have had another season anywhere near that first one and would have likely ended up moving to someone like Slot or Emery which would have been perfect.

[@akaskinz1856]

Didn't last very long in the prem.

[@Lukerodgersbeeston]

@akaskinz1856 3 seasons for a team that had been away 16 years and was made up mostly of champ players fella

[@JMatthew131]

@@akaskinz1856 just the highest points for a promoted team since 2001 with a team that finished bottom half of the the champ.

[@harryrawson3855]

Can we start having licenses to put out podcasts?

[@tanknightriders]

Bit off topic but Harry Arter would be an interesting guest if you could get him. Need to know what he spent his Forest wages on when he wasn't playing! 😄

[@Theexcellorator64]

Top player for us at wolves. That team would have beaten any other championship team

[@stefangonet8469]

Im sure he went northern irish at 32:00 minutes when he pronounced "training" 😂

[@balint4925]

get him singed on to Leeds again for the remaining games of the season so he can get us promoted again

[@TAKLUFC]

😂

[@HaroldGreb]

Blue boy at back loathes Bielsa, what a whopper. Love to play lethwei with him

[@Mustardinhoo]

Bielsa a whoppper

[@RyanDogs]

Shut up soft lad

[@RyanDogs]

​@@Mustardinhooturn it in lad ya built like the side of a sim card

[@Mustardinhoo]

@@RyanDogs helmet 😂

[@Lukerodgersbeeston]

​@@Mustardinhooslinking birds from hours away like a teenager mustard lad. Jessica perry the kid who's been passed around like a Pep passing drill 🤣🤣🤣

[@GVGames1986]

I knew a Polish lad and I thought it was funny when he said the police are armed with machine guns in the stands.. the ultras out there are pretty violent at times!

[@samfootie]

Can't stop watching the first 10 seconds! hahaaha

[@thecookingwine1]

Wheres the Curtis Davies one?

[@LeedsSupporter]

Good choice of guest

[@hardonthebit9228]

Where did Barry get the curtains that he is wearing from?

[@hardonthebit9228]

Curtains aside, genuinely fantastic episode and one of the best you guys have done. Hope it gets the views it deserves.

[@Tone-iw7ft]

Jon Parkin questioning Bielsa’s fitness standards when he couldn’t run 10 yards and lived off Wigan kebabs his entire career. Pathetic

[@Gdk830]

Bagged one in three for a 600 game career and barely injured on kebabs …. Maybe Bamford needs to get the donor meat and chips on the go

[@DanielLudlam-f1w]

And you are? A nobody who comes on here...

[@niallwilliams8833]

Relax he was only coming from a different angle, regardless the big man has same number of championship promotions as el loco😂

[@TedBarry-f1r]

Wait until you see the size puskas was

[@davecollier7329]

He made a decent living for 20 plus years so can't have been that pathetic.

[@Pennyburn1688]

Never heard of this guy before.... He has no doubt become very wealthy through professional football... What I'm wondering is why he never played for Scotland... Who kept him out the international team?

[@stevenoconnor8249]

Only andy Robertson,he did get 1 cap

[@rb2k10]

Re: Deeney, he clearly is proud of it and glamourises it, but says he doesn't.

[@Ohmydayys]

Can’t forgive Barry’s reputation from Wolves fans to what actually turned up at Leeds. Expecting 10 free kick goals a season and a boatload of assists. Either never fit, painfully slow and I don’t think he scored a single free kick hahah By all accounts, a top fella

[@razerow3391]

Yeah I’m not sure why our fans are bugging him up. He was replaced by someone from Athletico Madrid and he scored a lot in a team that ran rampant in the championship at times. Put me in a team with Ruben Neves and I’d do well too! He wasn’t that great. Hence why Nuno got rid of him.

[@joewoodward3804]

Loved hearing more about bielsa, disagree a bit that his methods injured players. Mateusz Klich played 82 games in a row for bielsa. Dallas, Harrison, white, bamford played every game in that season. No more injuries than any other club?

[@adamtook8752]

Troy…part 2?

[@Trev794]

No it's definitely Barry Douglas

[@josephh4999]

The start 😂😂😂

[@MW92.]

Yes Barry lad! Great servant for Leeds 🤝⚪️🟡🔵

[@andrewcornfield5001]

😂😂😂😂

[@leedsunitedoldschool2837]

Sure was..

[@Ohmydayys]

Yeah fantastic, 42 games in 3 seasons. How many starts haha?

[@RyanDogs]

Is that a joke

[@leedsunitedoldschool2837]

@@RyanDogs Must be irony. They should ask same questions to someone like Stuart Dallas. He did another pod recently. Comes across a bit bitter here.

[@domdos2264]

Bielsa method was Gun Ho very obviously. But strangely and this is the fault in Bielsa thinking. Bielsa believed in a small squad. Players were washed out after every game. Biologically it was impossible to fully recover within a few days.

[@waltontony1]

Bielsa said that he needed to change his team every 2 years. The board didn't support him.

[@nwils6944]

A manager wanting fit players + he doesn't speak English is blowing some minds here.

[@mattbritnell3418]

🐺

[@spinnersofyarns]

you can tell Browny that Bamford was a decent striker when they bought him?

[@undrthecosh]

@@spinnersofyarns never said he wasn’t ?

[@spinnersofyarns]

@@undrthecosh he actually did when he listed a group of players

[@undrthecosh]

@ middle of the road championship player is better than decent in my opinion. Point was he took all of them to another level. Didn’t say he wasn’t a good player

[@spinnersofyarns]

@@undrthecosh i couldn't find it but you're right, although he's wrong cos Patrick was never a middle of the road championship player prior to Bielsa, although like most players he did have a few bumps

[@rickywells4473]

He was bought in at dundee united to replace Andy Robertson (THE) 💯

[@Vekkxd]

Other way around

[@rickywells4473]

@Vekkxd close enough but typed before I watched it and from memory lol

[@paolo1chop]

All the Bielsa fan boys supposedly know better than a man who worked with him every day

[@silverwolf5735]

For him to have only 1 cap for Scotland is criminal....

[@Psycho_Sidney]

That accent is mad 😂

[@Ohmydayys]

Chris (hair) carried this podcast. Only one who got Bielsa

[@perko8764]

Barryos Douglaski

[@melonycrumpet]

Turkey teeth 😂

[@darmate14]

Jon showing is Google search history instead of Translate

[@rickywells4473]

Basher from his dundee united days

[@YerDa67]

Barry doesn’t ken if he wants to be Glaswegian, or Dundonian 😂

[@Tone-iw7ft]

Barlow?

[@robhaze2767]

Wolves fans told us we'd signed best LB in the league, but think we got his twin. Gone down even further in my estimation with this interview slagging bielsa off. Not much of a coincidence every single player improved their level, except for Douglas

[@lord--wolf8058]

Please try and get an interview with Conor Coady.

[@Pomegranate-my4fo]

Wait where’s Troy part 2

[@Jcku6me]

They said last week they will need to film it at a later date, but it's gonna happen

[@madforit2]

@@Jcku6me Hopefully never film it. Guy is a complete bellend

[@craigratio]

I notice they had a disclaimer this week because of just how much of a helmet Deeney is.

[@davetheduck33]

Watching Parkin attempting to understand Bielsa’s methods is like watching a dog trying to fly a helicopter.

[@andrewcornfield5001]

That fat pudding would’ve been mince meat under Bielsa

[@WoodyWanderer]

Doesn’t speak highly of Bielsa like the others do from that promotion team . They all love him . Must be because he was injured all the time .

[@andrewcornfield5001]

Douglas was a pure crock , hardly got a game out of him

[@WoodyWanderer]

@@andrewcornfield5001 Yh he was a disappointment after the stats he got at wolves the season before . Had a good left foot delivery / cross but he was probably our weakest player at Leeds at that time . Everyone else was at top of their game he was at his worst

[@JMatthew131]

@@WoodyWandererHarsh he was decent for Leeds and wasn't the weakest in the side got a few assists shame we never saw some free kicks though

[@andrewcornfield5001]

@@JMatthew131😂

[@captainblackheart3216]

Interesting footballing life. Liked him at dundee united where he made a lot of appearances

[@razerow3391]

Getting sold by wolves was a shock? Erm… okay? He is aware we got Jonny who at the time played for Athletico Madrid? But I’m sure we were proven wrong and this guy probably ended up staying with Leeds when they came back to the prem… wait they got rid of him too? I’m sure he spent longer at Blackburn though… wait… gone after 30 games? So you are telling me he wasn’t that good and that his stats for that season flattered what is a below average player in the champ?

[@andrewcornfield5001]

Bang on

[@playlist9980]

All players seem to think they're God's gift to football. There's a difference between conficence and delusion.

[@the_even_toed_ungulate.]

Got his Halloween teeth in

You couldnt afford them and no doubt your gnashers are like a dortmund scarf

[@davidbeardsley9394]

Calm down T, most people don't need veneers

@@davidbeardsley9394jealous of a man with spare cash, get back to work with your rigger boots on😂

[@the_even_toed_ungulate.]

Who threw you nuts? Sorry for insulting your boyfriend... Do you prefer being noshed off with vaneers? Another Scottish internet hard man.

[@Köpürdekliportakal]

came from an instagram reels where he talked about his time in Turkey. Sad that he didn’t come to galatasaray

[@alper8430]

when he talks about galatasaray

[@jeezyh5939]

Set of goons

[@stevencooke4250]

When's the Troy Deeney part 2 out ?

[@babygravey]

They wernt filming it the same day

[@TheWorldClassStamp]

Bielsa was great for the PL.

[@09stevebull]

Weird how leeds fans love bielsa, surely player welfare would have something to say about his training overload.

[@robhaze2767]

How's it weird? We'd finished 14th season before, he signed Bamford and took us from bottom half to best team in the league while playing the best football the club had seen for decades. United the club and fans again. If you're not leeds you won't understand.

[@09stevebull]

@robhaze2767 it's the same pattern he has at other clubs , runs the players into the ground, I don't think he's ever won anything at club level either.

[@harrysturgess2376]

@@09stevebull he won the title at Leeds, four titles in Argentina and an international trophy with Argentina. Not weird why we love him at all, we were unplayable and he revived the club. You won’t find an atmosphere as good, or fans more supportive of a manager than Leeds under Bielsa. The man is a genius

[@09stevebull]

@harrysturgess2376 what he has won in Argentina isn't impressive at all. What happened in the Premier league? He ran your players into the ground.

[@harrysturgess2376]

@ the title itself might not be impressive objectively, but he reformed the club he won it with just like he did at Leeds which is testament to how good he is. What happened in the premier league is he took a poor championship side who couldn’t hit water if they fell in it, to almost a European spot in their first season. He wanted more players, he wanted the likes of Gakpo and Gvardiol to go with Raphina the following season. There’s much more to the puzzle than what you think is the case as to why the Leeds decline happened

[@iainchiz17]

Well that was boring as fuck

[@leedsunitedoldschool2837]

Way to negative and just a little bitter, listen to others in that team - they are forever grateful to Marcelo Bielsa. Phillips. Cooper, Dallas, Ayling, Bamford etc....the main players. Dallas has been on a pod lately. It was not like that with all having balls ready on murderball. Thanks for the memories Douglas.

[@Mark-tb5jk]

I can assure you bielsa won’t be listening to Jon Parkin. 😂

[@ew2079]

Accents horrendous couldn’t listen . Disappointed coz he’s Scottish supposedly but obviously no now 🫨

[@playlist9980]

What a dainty wee flower you are. I hope he didn't give you PTSD.

[@buggersmuddle84]

Those Turkish teeth ………

[@nicky1618]

Why's he speaking with this strange accent. 😂😂

[@darmate14]

Sounds like a Pole trying to speak Scottish😅

[@MXB1973]

The reason Wolves let him go became clear…he was bang average. His impact at Leeds was minimal to say the least.

[@mickeymouse3614]

'I'd go and sit at his (Bielsa's) table in Costa's - would you Jon, would you really Jon? Doubt it. Westley podcast showed that you wouldn,t do ANYTHING you say you would

[@andrewcornfield5001]

Yup , man’s full of it

[@Wood-16]

Great career but I wish you'd stop talking over the guests when they are halfway through their sentence. It's infuriating. No one wants to hear your shite one liners.

[@HaroldGreb]

Love Barry, don't love the 3 amigos trying to slag GOD off

[@Ohmydayys]

God. You saddo

[@jotaondawing1996]

How can this tube put that accent on for nearly 2 hour. Absoloute embarrassment

[@richiewarren547]

The only one who should be embarrassed is you

[@iani1457]

Easy to overplay the Bielsa years at Leeds. One season they missed out on promotion. One successful season with promotion and one good year in the premier league. Let’s not forget his methods were taking them back down before he was sacked.

[@shaun7401]

You say that as if it's fact but we weren't in the relegation zone when he left. Marsch then came in, took us into the bottom 3 and then back out on the final day and somehow proclaimed himself as the saviour. The truth is the players weren't good enough, Bielsa couldn't work wonders forever. Look at the following season, we were even worse and went down anyway.

[@Take2Hodgie]

Injuries were the problem not Bielsa. Players came back and Marsch limped to survival

[@Tone-iw7ft]

He got Patrick Bamford an England cap mate. He took mid level Championship players to 9th place in the Prem within 3 seasons. It was an unbelievable achievement. Was never guna last forever

[@harrysturgess2376]

That’s a crazy take. One successful season with promotion = one of the greatest sides the championship has ever seen, one good season in the premier league = took a side who couldn’t hit water if they fell in it to a top half of the premier league. His methods weren’t going to last forever, but he wanted us to pick up the likes of Gakpo and Gvardiol to go alongside the likes of Raphina. The decline of Leeds is not just solely on the tactics being sussed out. Raphina alone made us 10x better, now imagine the following season he had gotten the players he wanted, then we could have moved onto a different manager if needs be

[@paulgray7014]

We got hammered against the two Manchester clubs, Liverpool and Tottenham we went from that to getting hammerings from Brentford, Fulham, Bournemouth and Crystal Palace. Bielsa wasn't the problem he papered over the problem which was the clown show board