Silabert vs. Bielsa: “He’s a socialist, but he drives around in a Mercedes – He can’t do it with the stars”

After him Luis Suarezanother prominent football man within a few days unleashed attack on Marcelo Bielsa. In fact, this time it was very severe, through his mouth Jose Luis Silavert. The Paraguayan former great goalkeeper passed the Argentinian coach, who is now on the bench of the Uruguay national team.

“He plays it like a socialist, but drives around in a Mercedes Benz. In so many years of career I have not had a problem with any coach. You should always respect professionals. Bielsa has a problem with big players, that’s why he wants to send them off and treats them badly. He can’t be with the stars, he has to be that star. He thinks he is more important than his players. That’s why he never went to big teams like Barcelona and Real. He chooses small and medium teams so that he can treat the youngsters badly, but it is impossible to do the same when he has big players to manage“, he emphasized.

In fact, he remembered an incident in Velez’s training in 1998.He had spoken badly to one of my teammates and I came forward. I told him to his face and he took the captain’s armband from me and forbade me to commit a foul. When things don’t go his way, he’s abusive. Called a teammate a ‘coward’. I said to him ‘how can you call a player like that in a team that has won everything? You haven’t won anything.’ Then they had to separate us“, he said.