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Leeds are keen to discuss a new contract for manager Marcelo Bielsa after securing the Championship title and a return to the Premier League.<\/p>\nLeeds are keen to discuss a new contract for manager Marcelo Bielsa after securing the Championship title and a return to the Premier League.<\/p>\n
West Brom\u2019s defeat at Huddersfield on Friday night ended Leeds\u2019 16-year wait to return to the top flight, and they were confirmed as champions when Brentford lost to Stoke on Saturday afternoon, their first trophy since 1992 when they won the old First Division and Charity Shield titles.<\/p>\n
They still have games against Derby and Charlton to come but attention will quickly shift to next season now, with Bielsa\u2019s future top of the agenda as his contract expires at the end of the season.<\/p>\n
Chief executive Angus Kinnear told the Yorkshire Evening Post he was due to hold talks with director of football Victor Orta, owner Andrea Radrizzani and Bielsa next week.<\/p>\n
\u201cVictor, Andrea and I will be straight in with Marcelo next week, talking about plans for next season, exactly as we did at the start of this season,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has a review, he knows the direction he wants to take the club in and it\u2019ll go from things we need on the playing side right through to changes he wants to be made at Thorp Arch and the backroom staff.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously his own personal arrangements as well we need to resolve.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aside from his spells in international football with Argentina and Chile, the 64-year-old Bielsa has rarely stayed long at any individual club, but Kinnear believes he is happy and settled after two seasons at Elland Road.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe challenge with Marcelo is that intentions are always a bit of a mystery because he\u2019s always focused on the next game, you\u2019re a brave man to try and distract him from the task of the next match,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s fallen in love with the club, I think he\u2019s committed to it. I actually think he was committed to the Championship.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hadn\u2019t had a specific conversation but he\u2019s been very, very focused on what we\u2019ve done with the academy, getting that to Cat One status, he\u2019s hugely focused on developing the younger players.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we hadn\u2019t made it, it would probably have been the case that we\u2019d be competing in the Championship with a younger squad and I think that challenge appealed to him.\u201d<\/p>\n
For now, Bielsa has been seen celebrating with his players, staff and fans as Leeds\u2019 promotion sparked a night of partying at Elland Road.<\/p>\n
Bielsa was brought in by Radrizzani and Orta after false starts under Thomas Christiansen and Paul Heckingbottom following the takeover from the unpopular former owner Massimo Cellino.<\/p>\n
The enigmatic Argentinian has delivered, transforming a perennial mid-table team into their current guise and thus allowing Radrizzani to achieve his goal of promotion.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am so happy for everyone in the Leeds United family, we all deserve this promotion,\u201d Radrizzani said.<\/p>\n
\u201cLeeds United is one of England\u2019s greatest and most well-supported clubs with a rich history known all over the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been out of the top flight for 16 years and I am thrilled for the whole club and our incredible fans that we are back in the Premier League.<\/p>\n