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While Leeds United may not have ended that long exile from the Premier League in their first year under the management of Marcelo Bielsa last season, it seems as though the ever-entertaining Argentine can do no wrong at Elland Road right now.

Having walked in and taken a side that had finished pretty much slap bang in the middle of the Championship table the season before to the brink of automatic promotion earlier this year, Bielsa has at least got plenty of those of a Leeds persuasion believing that that return to the Premier League is not far away now.

Indeed, after missing out on a return to the promised land of the Premier League via the play-offs in the most agonising of circumstances, a start to this season that has seen Bielsa's side win four and draw one of their opening six league games this season, means it does appear as though last year was no flash in the Elland Road pan.

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Now, it seems that Bielsa is not just working wonders for Leeds on the pitch, but that he is having a similar impact off it as well, so much so that he even seems to be making that difference on an individual level.

Speaking recently in an interview with Leeds Live, current Leeds captain and newly capped Scotland international Liam Cooper, revealed the struggles that he endured as he tried to settle in at the club following his move from Chesterfield in 2014.

But having taken so long to really feel at home at Leeds, in some ways it seems little surprise that Cooper went onto credit Bielsa with really turning his career and at Elland Road, and Leeds fans will surely be delighted that he did.

In recent years, Cooper has established himself as a huge presence in the Leeds defence, so much so that the departure of club cult hero Pontus Jansson during the summer transfer window appears to have had very little effect on their start to the season, and that is testament both to Cooper's own performances, and by extension, the impact that Bielsa has had at him in the past 15 months or so.

There were eyebrows raised at the unconventional training methods and meticulous preparation for matches introduced at Leeds by Bielsa when he arrived at the club, but when you consider the praise and credit that Cooper has recently lavished on his manager, there be little doubt as to the effectiveness they have had.

Indeed, when you look at the performances of Leeds before and after Bielsa's move to Yorkshire, you imagine there are more than just Cooper himself in that squad who feel like they owe an element of their career at the club to Bielsa.

Considering the upturn in fortunes at Leeds during that time, and the number of players the clubs fans have been able to see at their best as a result of that, it is something which will surely make them forever thankful, for the arrival of Marcelo Bielsa.