Marcelo Bielsa arrived to West Yorkshire last summer with a reputation as big as Leeds' yearning to become a Premier League club, and he has more than lived up to it.

The news of his contract extension should, therefore, be greeted warmly not just by Leeds fans, but by football fans across the country - and not just for the brilliant style of play he brings to the Championship.

It is this style, and his ability to grab the headlines, which make him the most entertaining manager in England.

Jurgen Klopp, Neil Warnock and Gareth Ainsworth may run him close, but Bielsa is unlike any other. Who else would or even could deliver an hour-long lecture/press conference breaking down the entire tactics of Derby County?

It was something which has never been seen before in England, and shook the public imagination. If he wasn't respected widely in England before he was after that. Not many managers would display the confidence and bravery Bielsa did that day - and perhaps it did come to haunt him after Derby's play-off victory at Elland Road.

Spygate threatened to undermine Leeds' season and his tenure up until that point, but he dealt with it professionally and with grace, and Leeds continued to impress in the Championship up until the last few fixtures.

Similarly, Bielsa showed what he is made of in that Villa game. It was a vitally important match for Leeds' promotion chances, but Bielsa would waiver from his values. Not only that, but Pontus Jansson was on the end of an earful for disobeying Bielsa's instructions to hand Villa a goal back.

From sitting on a blue bucket during matches to being spotted casually around Wetherby where he lives by Leeds fans, Bielsa has endeared himself to fans, mainly due to the simple fact that he seems normal, down to earth, yet charming. Even his failed pronunciation of Ipswich is to be adored.

Perhaps above all is his football. He has brought a pacy, energetic style to Leeds which brought them to the brink of the Premier League and got them believing once again after so long. It would be fitting for Bielsa to be the man to bring them back to the promised land, and this new contract could be the first step in that.

Bielsa has managed some of Europe's biggest clubs. He could still be but he has chosen Leeds, and Leeds have chosen him.