I agree with you that he is stubborn, and also with others that 90% of the time this is a strength not a weakness. But it's not black and white is it. We want a manager who has complete faith in their tactical system, player selection, game management, training regime etc. What we don't want is a manager who fails to recognise the need to adapt when there is a clear need to. There's such a fine line between the former and the latter.CanuckMightyWhite wrote:Don’t get me wrong, I am behind Bielsa. He single handedly orchestrated our success over the last 3 years, but his flaws are all there to be seen and only he can rectify them.
All I said was stubbornness, others have said something similar such as “needs to be flexible”, “try something else”, “play players in their right positions”, “square pegs in round holes “.
Basically his player selection has been the issue this season, and I think time has come for Radz and co to have a chat with him on how we can stay in this division. Simple as that, can’t let it slide too much now.
The blame isn't squarely at Bielsa's door, but, for example, there's a reasonable argument that Bielsa's insistence on a small squad and playing players all over the pitch, while paying dividends almost all the time, is the single largest reason for our injury crisis (it's not a crisis if you have good-enough backups). Similarly, the lack of a CM is clearly hindering us. For Bielsa, nobody fitted the bill 3 transfer windows in a row and we've clearly been short of quality and depth there, even with Forshaw, and I find it fundamentally impossible to believe there hasn't been a single suitable player out there for two years. For me, that is stubbornness that you'd hope a manager can learn from, particularly if, as you say Canuck, it happens every season.
We're all smart enough on here to recognise that it's possible to question aspects of Bielsa's management while also recognising he's changed the club from top to bottom, given us the best years in a decade and a half, and is still the right man for the job. I firmly believe he is the man for the job for the rest of this season, and really want him to see his project through for long enough that our exciting u23s break through. I also suspect he'll see this as his last at Leeds regardless of whether we survive or not. But I reserve the right to think there are aspects of his approach which have never really worked, and that he should consider evolving.
