"I paid the 230,000 euros penalty for espionage out of my own pocket"

The Federation's sanction of £200,000 is an economic fine that the club received, it wasn't against me, but I'm responsible for it and that's why I paid it out of my own pocket," explained Marcelo Bielsa at the press conference prior to the match against Ipswich Town.

That incident came after Derby County discovered a spy sent by Bielsa on their premises before a match between Derby and Leeds.

Bielsa admitted to having used espionage techniques against the rest of the teams of the Championship (English Second Division) and was sanctioned.

In addition, the Argentine assured this Friday that he will pay any penalty the club receives for the disturbances generated by the players in the meeting between Leeds and Aston Villa last weekend.

The event occurred after Leeds took the lead while a Villa player was lying on the pitch, which caused Bielsa to force his players to allow the rival to score. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="es" dir="ltr">¡DE LOCOS!