Forty-three, black boots, graffiti, cultured finishes, Polish rap, streaming on Twitch, breakdancing, hand binoculars, the goal Marcelo Bielsa had to give back, that Stoke City dawn, water-bottle melees, Bob, starting every match for two-and-a-half years unless he was drunk.
Words will struggle to do Mateusz Klich’s Leeds United career justice. He was the footballer who summed up the transformation of the club and city when Bielsa arrived in 2018.
If the Argentine was the mastermind behind the awakening of the giant, Klich was the embodiment on the field. Bombed out by Thomas Christiansen, then farmed out to the Netherlands, with four years since his last Poland call-up, Klich was done.
