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Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa's incredible spygate press conference full transcr ipt

Subscribe to our channel: https://goo.gl/pqS0mLLeeds manager Marcelo Bielsa's incredible spygate press conference full transcript. Marcelo Bielsa held an unscheduled press conference on Wednesday evening following the 'spygate' incident involving Derby County. Rather than resigning, as many thought he might, he spent 70 minutes explaining the extent of his staff's tactical analysis and going through, in painstaking detail, what he knew about Derby. Sportsmail has pulled together a brief breakdown of the key moments from the press conference and provided a full transcript of what Bielsa said. THE BREAKDOWN  1. He has had spies at every opponent's training ground this season Bielsa: 'I observed all rivals we played against. We watched all the training sessions before we played them.' 2. His staff spend over 200 hours analysing every team Leeds play against Bielsa: 'Of each opponent we watched all the games of 2018-19 - we watched the 51 games of Derby County. The analysis of each game takes four hours of work - why did we do that? Because we think it is professional behaviour.' 3. He has files on every aspect of opposing players and teams – right down to the number of minutes they have played in each position Bielsa: 'I might not be able to speak English but I can speak about the 24 teams of the Championship. Derby have played 4-3-3 49.9 per cent of the season... we use this to understand the system and why and when they change the system during a game.' 4. Even Pep Guardiola was impressed – having been handed a Bielsa dossier on Barcelona while he was Nou Camp boss Bielsa: 'Guardiola had a look at it and he told me 'you know more about Barcelona than me'.' 5. Leeds play Stoke this weekend… so he's watched every game of new manager Nathan Jones' former club Luton 'As we're going to play against Stoke, it's hard to analyse them with a new head coach. So we analyse the 26 games he played with Luton and the structures he used' FULL TRANSCRIPT  I called this press conference because we have the classic press conference before playing Stoke City. And I thought the spy matter would take time I would like to dedicate to the game. My goal regarding this situation of which I am the only one responsible. I wouldn’t like to mix it with the games and the play. And if you allow me I would like to make a summary of what happened. It’s about watching from a public space an activity that is realised in a private space without the agreement with the goal of both gaining sports advantage and hurting the fair play. I already said I was the only one responsible for this situation. The club is not responsible whatsoever and nobody on my staff is responsible for it. The person who did that followed my orders and I am the only one responsible. Many people made an opinion on my behaviour. Many expressing, condemning the behaviour, saying that it was not ethical, that it was immoral. That it was violating of affecting fair play. That it was cheating. This club thought it was obliged to present public excuses to Derby County. And I was publicly told that my behaviour was not respecting the principles of integrity which is the basis of the club. Many managers, ex-footballers and footballers thought my behaviour was respectfulness. The last point of this situation is that the league after a complaint made by Derby County decided to open an investigation on my behaviour. So they will evaluate if I behaved bad and if my behaviour affected the prestige of the club or the league. One other point I would like to talk about is that I’m going to make it easier for the investigation of the league. I’m going to give the information it needs and I assume the fact that my behaviour is heard from the most extreme position. In a few words I can tell you we observed all the rivals we played against and we watched all the training sessions of the opponents before we played against the. My goal is to make the