The goal

Without a doubt.

Everything is there right now to go and achieve that. A top manager who by all accounts wants to stay and have a go again. A group of players to build on who finished 3rd with lots of young players who will be better for the experience.

No excuses if it fails from here.

Think the powers that be need to start to analyse last season and what went wrong, need to learn the lessons from last year so as not to repeat them.
I fundamentally believe that the Bielsa way of all out attack cost us dearly in the second half of the season, a more prudent manager may have seen us fare better in the run in.

comment by Elsbels (U21658)
posted 8 minutes ago
Think the powers that be need to start to analyse last season and what went wrong, need to learn the lessons from last year so as not to repeat them.
I fundamentally believe that the Bielsa way of all out attack cost us dearly in the second half of the season, a more prudent manager may have seen us fare better in the run in.
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What cost us is not taking our chances. Having a more conservative approach and less chances wouldn't have helped.

I agree and normally think after last season we would sign a couple of players who would make the difference and push on. But we are Leeds and i have this sneaking feeling Radz is gonna do a Bates on us.Making a lot of noise about costs and i can see him doing something to make MB walk like selling our best players, will save millions there and then bring Corberan from u23s and hope he can use the younsters to get us up. Hope im wrong but this is the kind of thing thats happened to us too many times over the last 15 years. We are in a good place at the moment but will it last.Will Radz take that extra step or will he do a Bates.time will tell

LDL, my thoughts exactly. Will we move forward from last season, or will the owner(s) realize the playing assets for personal gain? I think next season is going to be more difficult as I believe all three relegated sides will be strong.

If Bielsa is staying, and if he changes some of his strategy from this season, we have a good chance of going up, but the pain of the last month has not gone away. Fact is we blew it against Wigan, we didn't use our last three games to prepare, and to blood players for the play-offs, and we showed this division too much respect by throwing the Villa game. You could see what Pontus was thinking, 'we worked our socks off all season, to give away two points. Do we really want to get out of this league?' Not playing Pontus in the game against Derby, not even bringing him on to shore up the defence, was one of the worst decisions of the season. I have reservations about Marcelo. As great a tactician and coach as he is, is he a winner?

Berardi played well in the first leg and Jansson had as poor a last month as anyone. His positioning cost us at Brentford and he was poor against Wigan. Easy to say in hindsight.

His approach and tactics masked the weaknesses in the squad. His only major mistake was his squad size - he did say at the start of the season that might prove to be so. I hope he's learnt that you can have 18 players for a 46 game season unless you get the luck to go without any major injuries.

AR as a businessman will be fully aware of the 5 year plan he gave, and we were just one position short of that objective after 2 years. So to better that, it has to be top two and promotion, and there can't be many excuses. I cannot see why it should be taking so long to see if Bielsa is staying, they should have been prepared for all scenarios before the end of season, (any good businessman would do that). Unless he knows running around finding another coach buys himself some time and an excuse for not doing as well next season. They should by now have a list drawn up of players they could target and those they don't want to keep. But instead we are only "80% sure" of keeping Bielsa, and instead of a 5 year play it's now "one day".I have a very big doubts about AR. We certainly know he doesn't have the money, or doesn't want to spend it. Was the Arabs buying the club, just some sort of swerveball to distract from coach, players, and other issues he knows fans will be concerned about.... I'm very unsure about AR and what his objectives are.

If Radz fails to invest - or take the opportunity to let others invest - then the good faith that he has built up (and I know that is little in the eyes of some) will evaporate quite quickly. Especially if Bielsa and our best players are allowed to leave. Even if we keep all of the above, but do not invest and the start of season results go against us, many will be questioning whether Radz has the club at heart or whether he is only in it for the pay off of reaching the Premier League.