Liverpool great Graeme Souness has declared Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds United his favourite team this season.
Souness was discussing Bielsa during Leeds' defeat of Southampton last night.
He said: "He's improved players that were certainly not Premier League players, that look like they're real Premier League players now. It's a brand of football that's refreshing.
"The game, the way it's evolved in recent years, all the stats coming out about pass completion and how much possession you've had, they're not caring about that. It's all about getting the ball forward, let's try and be on the front foot all of the time, yeah, we'll make mistakes, because we're not trying to make the easy pass - 10 yards square - I think they're a great watch.
"They are my favourite team to watch in the league this year. I don't think it was great tonight, but I'm going to put it down to the pitch, I think the pitch is hurting them as much as anyone else who will go there.
"I think the manager is quite unique, when you've got people like Pep Guardiola, another serious manager who is talking about him and his mentor. He's obviously got something, I'd love to sit down with him and ask him a simple question.
"I'd just say to him: do you put entertainment and style of play in front of results? Because that's how it appears. You mentioned the togetherness when they were holding the shirt up of the old lady who's died, go back a week or 10 days, they're 4-0 down at Arsenal - and you're thinking, '4-0 and they're not out of this'. Then they get it back to 4-2 and have a great chance to make it 4-3 with about eight minutes to go.
"They've got this, only he could tell you, or the players could tell you, they've got a belief that you rarely see in other teams that when they're behind, it's not a problem - we'll score."
