- Jul 6, 2012
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It’s Pochettino’s main weakness imo, the inability to change. Often it’s quite obvious that tactics or personal needs changing and he generally waits too long.
There was a bit in his book where he said something along the lines off “if you need to make changes in the 1st half or half time, how bad did you get it at the start”. I think that mentality is arrogant as even the best make mistakes, it’s about limiting them and admitting you were wrong and changing things sometimes.
I really hope he goes bad to his ethos and settles on the original 4231 system and picks a more settled line up because he hasn’t become a bad manager overnight
Funny enough, I've seen few managers fuck up their starting eleven as many times as he has. Only for him to have to change later in the game, chasing a lead.