Victor Orta has claimed Marcelo Bielsa is 'on a par with Don Revie' for what he achieved at Leeds United. Bielsa enjoyed a superb three-and-a-half-years at Elland Road as he guided the Whites to the Championship title in 2020 to end a 16-year wait for Premier League football.
The Argentine also helped Leeds take the top-flight by storm as they secured a ninth place finish in their first season back. He will also be always heralded for changing the entire culture of the club and reconnecting a fanbase that had felt out in the cold for so long.
Revie, meanwhile, is regarded as Leeds' most successful manager of all time, having won eight trophies during his 13-year spell with the club, including two Division One titles and an FA Cup. But even with all that in mind, Orta believes there is nothing to separate the two managers' time at the club and labelled Bielsa as the 'greatest coach of the modern era.'
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Speaking at the Ole Sports Summit, he said: “(He left) an eternal legacy. I can’t add more. The greatest coach of the modern era, on a par with Don Revie, of the bygone era. He changed the history in every corner of the club: youth, the youth academy, the first team. We can only be grateful for all his work.
“I took a gamble, because I believed in the way he understood his football and the way he could impact the whole club. I was right and I was able to convince the board of directors to hire him. From then on, we can only be grateful: the president himself is going to name the Ciudad Deportiva after him. From then on, every tribute will become small.
“It’s difficult to detail (what he left behind). It’s more of an overall concept. We had a club model that was down here, he was up there and what he did was to bring us completely to his level. So, to put us at the level of the world elite, which is the Premiership. What else to add to that, when you drag a club up?”
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