Doesn't have Premier League experience, of course. Madness that, under our board's current stipulations for the job, Terry Connor qualifies ahead of Marcelo Bielsa.
As lovely as it would be I don't think Bielsa would be the right choice for us. As much as I love mentalists do you really think that our players would be able to stand that level of perfectionism or attention to detail? They are behind McLeish fully because he is exactly the kind of comfort zone manager they love to play for who doesn't ask that much from them. If we appointed Bielsa I reckon we would have a level of mutiny within weeks that would make the Houllier reign look like an exemplary model of industrial relations. And there's no way that Lerner would fund a new squad who would fit his ethos even if we did appoint him. And there's no way we will appoint him because he lacks premier league experience and a personal recommendation letter from Ferguson (I doubt he'd get one after Thursday night) and McLeish is here to stay anyway.