Bristol City owner Steve Lansdown wants a points deduction for Leeds after their head coach Marcelo Bielsa admitted to spying on other Sky Bet Championship teams.
A member of Leedsâ staff was caught at Derbyâs training ground last week watching them train ahead of their league game at Elland Road, which Bielsaâs side won 2-0.
The English Football League and Football Association are investigating the matter.
While Leeds do not appear to have actually broken any rules, Lansdown has called for the authorities to punish the West Yorkshire club, who are top of the Championship table by four points.
âThe only thing that makes sense if Iâm honest is a points deduction,â Lansdown told BBC Points West.
âThey ought to seriously consider it but I donât think that will happen as I donât think the EFL will be strong enough to do something like that.
âA fine would go some way towards showing itâs not acceptable. Whatever happens we mustnât condone it.
âIf heâd asked to send someone to watch our training we would have said no. And every other football club would say no. So why does he think itâs acceptable to do it?
âHowever great a coach he is, itâs the wrong thing to do. Poking around and skulking around a training ground is not part of the game.â
Meanwhile, Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp and his Tottenham counterpart Mauricio Pochettino believe it is vital managers are allowed to make their final match preparations in privacy.
Pochettino found it difficult to condemn friend and former manager Bielsa but insisted his actions had been âwrongâ in a country where such behaviour is still frowned upon.
Klopp agreed training sessions immediately before a match should be off-limits to opposition scouts, but Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said the practice was commonplace in continental Europe and did not deny he had been involved in similar behaviour to his mentor Bielsa while coaching abroad.
Bielsa admitted on Wednesday to having every one of their Championship opponents watched in training, having confessed the week before that he had instructed a member of his staff staff to go to Derbyâs training ground on January 10 to keep tabs on the Rams, who Leeds were playing the following evening.
The Argentinian called a hastily-arranged media briefing to present his analysis to journalists â but the act of spying on another team has split opinion.
âItâs a situation that makes me a little bit sad,â Pochettino said.
âItâs so important to split my special personal relationship with him and describe a situation that happened a week ago.
âAlways my love is going to be with him. He was a person so important to me, to build my career as a player. After weâre talking about a situation that happened last week and I canât agree (with it).
âFor me, itâs wrong. I can understand (Derby manager) Frank Lampardâs feelings. Itâs a thing thatâs not easy to explain.
Klopp was also of the belief that the final training sessions before a game should be sacrosanct.
The first-team training pitch at the centre of Liverpoolâs Melwood training base is fitted with a retractable curtain and Klopp explained the reasons behind it.
âWhat do you think the reason for the curtains is?! Itâs not there in all sessions, because most of the sessions it is not a problem,â he said when asked about the row.
âBut the last two sessions especially, we use the curtains because itâs not for anybody else. You change a lot of things, you train on the set-pieces, you use the players who are available for the weekend. These are in the information everyone wants to have.
âI understand Bielsa wants all the information, thatâs what we all want, but on the other hand you have to accept that we donât get that.
âThatâs my opinion. You donât want to have somebody around in these special sessions, and whatever you prepare over the years has no bearing on the last two sessionsâŚespecially the last one before a game, only a couple of people should see. I really think we all agree on that.â
Guardiola, meanwhile, skirted around the question as to whether he had employed similar tactics before moving to England.
âIn other countries everybody does that,â he said.
âI donât know. It is more difficult. (Training) is private. It is closed. But in all the countries I have been before, everybody does it.
âMy respect (for Bielsa) remains the same. He was clear in his statement. I admired what he did in the past, why should I change my opinion?â
Asked directly if he has ever sent anyone to spy on an opposition team, Guardiola replied: âIn other countries everybody does it. It is the culture of the clubs. It was part of the club. Not because you said âyou have to do itâ. It is the (different) leagues.â
Crystal Palaceâs former England boss Roy Hodgson called on the authorities to act â the Football Association and EFL have launched investigations.
He said: âSneaking into other training grounds to see what teams are doing and get an advantage like that I do not understand at all, and I expect the governing bodies to do something about it.â
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