Try? Man you don't try one thing and quit if it doesn't work in one or two matches. As a manager it's Jose's responsibility to identify what's best for the squad and how it bring it out. No doubt Jose is a winner and hence very stubborn and it maybe the reason he refused to work on the formation. I mean why work on formation when you are one of the richest club and with one of the biggest transfer budget. Clearly Jose is totality, he ain't peasant like Klopp, Poch, Simeone, Sarri etc.
For me Jose is one trick pony and the reason is, he hasn't shown flexibility in his tactics or revolutionised game in any way. The 4-4-2, 4-2-3-1 and 4-3-3 he has made his team played, all had same style. The two wide men will always drop deep helping the fullbacks to double team opposition wingers, midfielders will sit deep, while keeping two men up top, with one physical player to hold the play and bring the players into the game on the counter. I haven't seen Jose using midfielders as inside-forwards or fullbacks playing as midfielders. In short nothing out-of-box, same tactics over and over.
I have no doubt Jose is successful manager and a winner but I have never seen Jose re-inventing himself , instead of taking the challenge and re-inventing himself
He has often resorted to blaming players, owners, media, coming up with childish excuses etc. In his world, its everybody's fault except Jose's.
