World Soccer

Jonathan WILSON

Playing the regeneration game

How long is too long? At what point do players, on hearing a manager’s motivational words, begin to shrug and think we’ve heard it all before?

At what point does a manager, having worked out a successful way to play, have to accept that others have begun to suss him out and that he needs to make significant changes?

At what point do players, used to playing with the same team-mates in the same style, become stale?

When, in football, does evolution become necessary?

It was the Hungarian

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