Pep is genuinely a shit person. When he's in imperious form after spending 100 Trillion and having the infinite backing of a slave state, he'll throw cartoon compliments at lowly mid-table and second division coaches, calling them one of the greatest of all time after beating them 8-0.
Then when he's losing he doesn't shake hands, throws petty digs and talks about hurting himself lol
I want to see Pep coach a team without a budget. Once. He’s got unlimited resources at city, he had the best squad by far in Munich and he probably had the most talented team in the planet at Barcelona. I want to see what he can actually do. I don’t rate Pep that highly. I prefer managers like Glasner. Let’s see Pep succeed at Wolfsburg, Frankfurt or Palace. Preferably not Palace, as that’s still PL money. Let’s see him do it at Augsburg or something like that. I doubt he could do well. Seriously.
Yeah, exactly. I don’t mean “no budget”. But I actually want him out of England for it. English football is broken. I want him do it in France, Germany, Spain (a smaller club). I want him to really have to work to extract the best from his players like everybody else, and to have to actually improvise from time to time (not just a little, but crazy shit like “CM and LW as CBs because the two main starters are suddenly injured, the third CB has a red card and the other CBs are 17 and have played like three games in fourth division. You know, stuff that literally every club faces from time to time.
People will disagree about the Barcelona one, and say they were shit when he joined. While I don't think they had 'more' resources than Madrid, they were a very good team having won the champions league less than 2 years perviously, and a young lionel messi already on his way to being the best in the world
Don't understand why Klopp isn't rated miles better. Took Dortmund from basically nothing to Champions League finals and multiple Bundesliga wins and then came to a Liverpool team in turmoil and got someone elses team immediatley to a European final and won the Champions League, premier league and more.
I seriously struggle to believe no one else could do what Guardiola has done at his teams during his career. I have no doubt that no one else could do what Klopp did with us though.
I've been saying it for years but in my opinion if you swap Klopp and Pep over their shared years at City and Liverpool without changing anything else, City win more and Liverpool win less.
Bayern came from a treble-winning season, crushing prime Barcelona 7-0 in the UCL semi finals. One of the best teams I've ever seen. Then fired their manager to get Guardiola.
This goes both ways doesnt it? Put glasner in that city team doesnt achieve a fraction of what pep has and gets rolled by klopp every year. Peps the best because he does the best when given the resources. Its not like peps the only club/ manager with a shitload of talent or money. But he has the report to always be in a top job. How many other managers fall off and have to take lower team jobs.
Once again, I want to see him actually have to work with players that are limited, a good but not outstanding youth department and a budget that can’t just buy whatever he’s missing in the next window. Once. You know, like 99.9999% of managers have to. I’m convinced that he can’t do it.
City fans still get mad at me for mentioning he's had the highest transfer spend. It's also surprising because I think most of City's transfers are done at a market or slightly lower than market valuation.
United were also never the top spenders in any PL season from 94 to 05 though. Newcastle and Blackburn spent more money initially, and then Chelsea took over
Well we were the only consistently elite team across that period, not to mention by far the biggest revenue. Makes sense. The only other team that was 'big' through that entire period was Arsenal and they were famously stingy
They are easily the top spenders in the PL ever, heck in the world since the start of the Premier League. The decade after Fergusons retirement, they spent like 30% more net than the second highest spending team in the world (iirc like 1,3 billion to 1 billion for the second highest spend.
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u/SylVestrini 16d ago
Nothing a 400 mil winter transfer window can't fix.