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Leeds United news: Marcelo Bielsa GRANTED work permit
LEEDS UNITED managerial target Marcelo Bielsa has been granted a work permit.
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Leeds United have been in talks with Bielsa for a week now about taking over at Elland Road.
The club have been thrashing out a deal while waiting for a work permit for the Argentine to come to the UK.
And Argentine outlet Varsky Sports claim the work permit has been granted.
According to the report, Bielsa “has got the work permit and will soon be announced as the new coach of Leeds.
“He had already agreed his contract with the club that plays in the Championship.”
Bielsa consiguió el permiso de trabajo y en breve será anunciado como nuevo entrenador de Leeds. Ya había acordado su contrato con el club que milita en la First Division (2da de Inglaterra) pic.twitter.com/kGjUxY1cYi
— VarskySports (@VarskySports) June 13, 2018
The BBC reported earlier on Wednesday that Bielsa had sent a ‘draft contract’ to Leeds for them to mull over.
The club already know the former Argentina and Chile boss will not come cheap.
Bielsa will also want a hefty transfer budget to mould the Leeds team to his favour.
Leeds sacked Paul Heckingbottom at the start of June after he failed to ignite their promotion ambitions following his arrival from Barnsley in February.
Heckingbottom himself had replaced Thomas Christiansen after Leeds’ early promotion hopes ground to a halt over the festive period.