Koch and Rodrigo ready for best league in the world, says Bielsa

But more than anyone, Leeds' Premier League fate is in the hands of eccentric manager

Artist Irek Jasutowicz works on a new mural of Leeds United manager Marcelo Bielsa near Hyde Park in Leeds. The West Yorkshire club will mark their return to the Premier League after a 16-year wait with a trip to champions Liverpool on Saturday.

It is a measure of the crazy, chaotic and engaging world that Marcelo Bielsa inhabits that it was not until yesterday morning, barely 24 hours before the start of the new Premier League season, that Leeds United were able to announce that the 65-year-old Argentinian will manage them in the new campaign.

But then again, nothing in the career or life of Bielsa has been orthodox. The only question, as Leeds return to the top flight for the first time in 16 years, is what impact he will have on the fortunes of the famous old club.