[The Athletic] Leeds United manager Jesse Marsch wants his struggling side to take inspiration from the likes of Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Muhammad Ali in their attempt to avoid relegation from the Premier League.

Tbf none of those guys were ever relegated from the Prem so it’s a decent shout

Here's a crazy fact about Gandhi: he actually founded 3 football clubs during his stint in South Africa.

Gandhi also famously said: “Never back the early kickoff.”

Give Gandhi a chance and that fucker would nuke one of the PL clubs at the smallest possible hint of banter or provocation 'to set an example'.

Alex Ferguson gave Wayne Rooney the DVD of The World At War documentary series narrated by Laurence Olivier to motivate Derby players. It's an incredible series which I'd recommend but if I'm a sportsman and my coach hands me that to get motivated for a game of football I'd find it weird too.

Honestly I bet this shit happens way more often at the top level than people realize, and it's probably not as weird to those footballers as randos on the internet think it is. Hell Klopp himself said he quoted Rocky at his Dortmund players (and then realized they were all so young nobody understood the reference).

Honestly if given the chance I'd go full Patton (apocryphal).

I don’t like that the British press are trying to play up to stereotypes and make this guy sound like an American clown to be honest.

It's not weird, it's part and parcel of building a team mentality by making something a common reference point which a manager can keep drawing from when trying to build a team mentality, inspire/motivate players (or staff members for that matter), comfort them etc.

And someone told him the ending so it spoiled the whole series for him.

I thought I was on soccer circlejerk lmfao

is this not?

I double checked the sub

Unlike there, this post is actually funny.

Every post here can be a circlejerk with the right attitude :)

This quote?

Definitely has a hand written poster in the dressing room saying ‘BELIEVE’ like my boy Ted Lasso

I feel the most important thing them is actually having a fit squad, and not shitting the bed in key moments

This is some proper Lasso shit going on lmao

Should just do the Miracle speech every match

Hopefully he follows Ted Lasso and takes his team down

Difference being on Ted Lasso it might — might — work. In real life, lol no.

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Next he'll be telling them to fight and win

Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggghhhggttttttt

I believe that we will win!

Leeds always fight, it's in their DNA.

he doesn't give a CRUD!!!

What about using the power of friendship?

LEEDS UNITED HERE WE GO

Jokes on you Gandhi is non-violent

Muhammad Ali I can see for sporting comparison. Gandhi and Mother Teresa are a bit bizarre.

Lads, it's the British Raj.

He will boot out all english teams and bang Mohan Bagan FC will be in premier league

Dfaq is a raj?

Reminds of that match where Big Sam showed clips from Gladiator to motivate players at half-time and got thrashed 5-0 or something in the second half.

I'm surprised he didn't give every player a copy of Sun Tzu's Art of War.

Bold to assume they can all read

Even better, let them watch paripi koumei.

Sun Tzu said, he who kept the midfiled strong, are fit to play in the Premier League.

Leeds are fucked

They play Charity FC next

They've been in the missionary position for a while now, don't see how Mother Theresa is supposed to change that.

Every day the line becomes blurry between

I miss it when our manager just refused to speak to the press

Bring back the translator to act as a screen

Did he really say that? Brendan Rodgers has competition for the cringe Olympics...

After the City game he said "well first of all I think the man of the match award should go to our fans". This guy is levels above Rodgers in cringe

“I have 52 excerpts from books that I sometimes give players when, individually, I think they need something to motivate them based on where they are in their development path or who they are as people to reach them differently rather than the conversations I have with them.

This reads like a over the top parody, make a few adjustments and stick it in a South Park / Simpsons episode

Sounds like he's got nothing worthwhile to contribute so he pigeonholes other peoples quotes to fit his agenda

Reminds me of that quote from a player who played under Fat Sam and apparently Fat Sam made them watch Gladiator before a game with Manchester United to inspire the boys, only for them to get thrashed by Man United either way

Tbh any excuse to watch Gladiator is a good thing

Mother Teresa? Haven't they suffered enough already?

I really, really can't believe she's still regarded so highly. Her preaching caused so much misery and suffering for thousands, if not millions of people all over the world.

https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/gcxpr5

The idea is to make others suffer. Just like MT wanted.

Think he's quite fond of the missionary position.

Was about to say

Ted Lasso is gonna relegate Leeds isn't he?

Bielsa died for this

Bielsa was the one who got them in this mess.

Yank moment

Leeds United presents: A Yank in Yorkshire, the Jesse Marsch Story

more reminiscent of Brendan Rodgers than anyone tbh, definitely not a "yank" thing

This is the type of thing the manager of a team who ends up relegated would say

Muhammad Ali i can understand. WTF do Gandhi and Teresa have to do with this. Like Gandhi is literally the type of person to " turn the other cheek" and get relegated.

You don't think Gandhi has anything to teach us about perseverance, overcoming adversity, standing up for what you believe in, and so on?

This is hardcore soccercirclejerk material

This man is Jesus Marsch now.

He’s definitely got live laugh love quotes all over his house hasn’t he

I would love to know the percentage of those "excerpts" that the players actually take home and read.

I think they'll take the half naked part from Mahatma Gandhi.

Played soccer with Mother Teresa and Gandhi in my time and I got to say Gandhi was an excellent goalkeeper, while mother Teresa could’ve been a world renowned striker

Teresa was a tap in merchant. Could never match the skills of Joan of Arc.

Tell me that you’re an American managing a soccer side without telling me that you’re an American managing a soccer side.

Klopp uses Rocky Balboa as inspiration. Don’t get why so many people think using people from history/culture as inspiration is such a negatively American phenomenon?

Tell me you use Tik-Tok without telling me you use Tik-Tok

Fucking what lmfaooooo

Mother Teresa was an evil hypocrite who wanted people to suffer. So for the Leeds fans sake I hope they don't act like her

Yeah, but she had a decent goals per 90 and deep progression stat, so pundits are still wanking over her, just like they were for Leeds the last two years.

https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/gcxpr5/saint_mother_teresa_was_documented_mass_murderer/

Basically 1970s Leeds as a person.

she'll fit right in then, given how many heart attacks this club have given me.

Reddit moment. Read the link someone responded with and maybe you'll realize you're not as smart as you think you are

Bob Bradley walked so this guy could run

Cocaine is a hell of a drug

Because it makes you repeat the same thing twice?

I read ‘Teresa May’.

Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Ali have never been relegated from the EPL - great models indeed

I am hoping their defenders don't take too much inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi, and practice non violence by not making any challenges.

Christoph Daum had his players walk over hot coals

Remember when we were seen as Dirty Leeds?

Manager with his back to the wall tries to motivate his players to improbable league finish

From Ghandi no attacking, from Teresa no saving, from Ali no fighting.

Managers have been doing similar things for time immemorial. Marsch has become a target because he is American but I applaud the fact he just laughs it all off, if you watch him during games he isn’t having any nonsense from referees or opposing managers either. He’s got the right character to do well, whether he has the talent remains to be seen.

Is this list worthy?

Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Muhammad 'The Hitman' Ali, walk into a bar....

Ali says "you know guys, my most successful moment was being a good boxer. How about you?"

Brendan Rodgers levels of cringe.

Steady.

When people were saying this guy was Ted Lasso I was thinking they’re taking the piss

Ted lasso was inspired by jurgen klopp. People in here have it the other way around.

Leeds fans may not be the kindest. But they deserve better than mother teresa.

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Ali was also questionable.

Mother Teresa was a piece of shit. Starving children for conversion. Fuck her into the dirt.

Gandhi is a racist nonce

A pedo as well

"And Jesus Christ guys, y'know? That fucker was coming back from the dead, surely ye can get more points than this Everton team. If we wanna save the Leads Men's National Team Franchise FC, we've gotta be looking at men like Christ for inspiration and have the sort of arrogance and belief that man had. WE are ALL sons of God, even you Luke Ayling, yes you, take your hand out of your trousers and say it with me now... WE are ALL children of GOD" - Jesse Marsch's half time team talk on the pitch, 3-0 down on the final day.

I'm getting annoyed by how the press of sneering at American coaches as Ted Lasso rip offs. This is the most basic of things. He reads books about inspirational figures. If he thinks a quote he read would be helpful to a players mental state then he'd show them it. That's basic human management.

Especially when Ted Lasso is in part based off Klopp.

If a German or Italian manager told his players to go home and read the art of war he’d probably get praised for it for “helping his players grow as people” but no, Ted lasso jokes are better

It blows my mind the amount of hate Americans get for trying to love the sport. Or participate in it with the rest of the world. Somehow because others in our country don't care for it. That somehow means none of us can have the same passion or knowledge of the sport. It typically comes from English people too that don't like foreigners supporting their hometown team.

ITT people acting like Jesse Marsch is the reason Leeds will get relegated. Any Jesse Marsch thread becomes the

No, that Leeds was going to get relegated was practically a given. Even though Marsch could maybe have had a more positive impact, he has been pretty unimpressive, relegation isn't his fault.

He wants them to fast?

He wants them to die? Not sure that's going to help.

"We must take inspiration from the dead, as we shall soon join them in death" - Jesse (Lasso) Marsch

I mean that is a contender to get on the

mother teresa been cancelled btw mr marsch

There's losing the plot and then there's this

Mother Teresa wouldn't mind playing in the Championship. NO job was to small for her. Take that Leeds.

You can take the manager out of America...

A paedophile, a sadist and a racist? They could have named anyone...

Mother Teresa was a piece of shit. The world is long overdo in finally accepting all the harm that she's done.

such an American thing to do...

If you don’t pay attention to all the household name top managers doing the same exact thing, sure

Dressing room enema harems incoming

Channel your inner Civ 5 Gandhi!

He keeps this up, he will lose the dressing room.

There’s no need to go such great lengths to motivate players since they’re playing Charity FC next and we never disappoint.

The real Ted Lasso, don't worry lads, you have Charity FC next

This is some Ted Lasso shit

Such a Ted Lasso move

Should probably do some research on Gandhi and Teresa.

Yeah they're going down.

Jesse has the power of God and anime on his side

That sounds like Ted lasso to me

y’all can laugh all you want, but Leeds got a goal back and had a chance to tie at the end while DOWN A MAN. That’s a hell of a performance. Maybe it worked

As an American fan of the Prem, these tactics sound very “American”

Mother Theresa said to those in pain, enjoy the pain, that's your salvation or something to that effect. So I guess Jesse is saying enjoy relegation?

This is peak American, MBA, pop-business, I read an autobiography nonsense. Christ.

Also pretty common among the household name top European managers

This guy is the biggest fraud in football

Is he watching Winning Time and taking his lead from Paul Westhead and his regular use of Shakespeare?

lol we indians aren't big fans of mohandas gandhi and teresa

Americans

Hot on thr trails of bend it like Beckham, now we have: Maraude like the mahatma

Who's responsible for firing Bielsa and then hiring this clown?

Judging by Ayling's tackle last game, he certainly took the Ali bit to heart.

Go all out there.

Takes inspiration from Micheal Jackson he is trying to not getting relegated

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take - "Wayne Gretzky". - Mother Theresa

They should take inspiration from the great Peter North. Stay strong even when it gets ugly.

Excuse me

How many red cards are they going to get next match?

They need all the help they can get looking at those fixtures.

trying to out Brent Brendan Rodgers.

Jason Segel in Winning Time

Or just play better

i guess ali's footwork could translate

Just because it works on Pat Bamford doesn't mean it would work on the whole team though.

Kinda unrelated, but Leeds United's DOF Orta is such an arrogant asshole.

So 3 games remaining...who are they going to be inspired by next game? Ghandhi?

Not sure this is as big a deal as people are making out. If it motivates the players even a tiny bit more im all for it

Even in case they get relegated, this should put them on a pathway to establish world peace!

literally cross and inshallah mentality there

"We've gotta keep it tight at the back and move the ball faster. We've got this, lads! Put it in the top bins!" ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I don’t think it helps Marsch’s case that everything he says inside the dressing room is automatically making press headlines, whether it be tactics or what he says in the dressing room, especially with what he uses for motivation.

From 'murderball' to Gandhi.

Only Ali would have gone in like Ayling did at the weekend tbh.

Lmao the title

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Ok

Lol wtf

Hmmm what's next, forcing the whole squad to watch The Iron Giant? lol.

Learned Mother Theresa was kind of a cunt today.

🤣🤣 so the relegation fight is Michael Jackson vs. Fat Frank vs. Ted Lasso?

Just watxhed an episode of Penn and Teller’s Bullshit! show from the 2000’s shitting on Gandhi and mother Teresa, accusing them of being horrible people. Quite funny that I see this quote today.

He should have had em watch some Wes Watson videos

we are so going down