Víctor Orta: ‘People said I was crazy to bring Bielsa to the Championship’

Sevilla’s director of football on the Argentinian, replacing Monchi, his friends at Aston Villa and facing Arsenal in Champions League

Víctor Orta has an idea. The former director of football at Leeds and Middlesbrough, who returned this summer to Sevilla after eight years in England, has heard the debate so many times, listened to the arguments that often, that he couldn’t help his mind wandering.

Now, he reckons, he might have come up with a way of settling it, until next season at least. To have a lot of fun trying, at least. He has barely sat down when he throws it out there, a hint of mischief. “What’s better? La Liga or the Premier League?” he says. “How about something like a Ryder Cup of football to find out?

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