Earlier today, we covered a story from L’Equipe explaining that Leeds United’s Marcelo Bielsa was expected in court regarding his sacking from Lille.
The manager, who wanted to be there in person, had to make do with calling in via video, where he and his lawyers were requesting €19m or so in compensation.
As with all things Bielsa, his appearance didn’t go without a hitch, as the Leeds man talked for 45 minutes when he was only meant to do so for 15 minutes, ending up being cut short, if you want to call it that, by the court president.
Following this, the entire proceedings were interrupted when someone noticed there was a camera turned on in the Argentine’s office when ‘when audio and video recordings are forbidden’.
Once that was switched off, everything carried on, and RMC Sport have a bit of what Bielsa had to say to his former club.
He said: “I would have preferred not to speak publicly, but I think there are certain situations that are interesting for me to explain. What I want to explain is the harassment that I suffered during the months of September and October before my dismissal in order to destabilise me, to push me to resign, sabotage my management and obstruct my work, degrading my authority.
“Luis Campos never wanted to help me. It was impossible to talk about football with Campos, he only talked about the commercial part, the players’ agents, the prices, the percentages, the commissions … he was not interested in talking about football”.
As you can see, there is no love lost between the Leeds manager and Lille these days, despite all that’s happened since his dismissal.
Regarding the outcome of this whole affair, it’s stated by RMC Sport the labour court will return their decision on July 2nd.
