Football is boring and lacks real superstars

stevoc said:
Look I think Pep is one of the best ever but he's definitely not the Goat. He's never challenged himself. Inherited the best player to ever play the game at Barca along with arguably the best ever midfield. Bayern, enough said. And then financially doped City during a time when Arsenal, Chelsea and United have for the most part been a shit show. Other than Liverpool he's had no real competition. Also he's never really had to rebuild a team and I don't see him sticking around at City to do it either.

Will he still be winning league titles and Champions League titles in his 60's like Sir Alex and Carlo. I doubt it.
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Don't disagree with a lot of that but he has already gone through one rebuild at City, he's now going to need to do it again. Kompany/Fernandinho/Silva/Yaya/Aguero were the core of his first City side and he replaced them all. He's now going to need to replace the likes of Walker/Rodri(?)/Gundogan/Bernardo/De Bruyne/Mahrez but so far he's made a bit of a mess of it.
 
Bale Bale Bale said:
Don't disagree with a lot of that but he has already gone through one rebuild at City, he's now going to need to do it again. Kompany/Fernandinho/Silva/Yaya/Aguero were the core of his first City side and he replaced them all. He's now going to need to replace the likes of Walker/Rodri(?)/Gundogan/Bernardo/De Bruyne/Mahrez but so far he's made a bit of a mess of it.
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How much control of buying players do you really think he has?
 
Bale Bale Bale said:
Don't disagree with a lot of that but he has already gone through one rebuild at City, he's now going to need to do it again. Kompany/Fernandinho/Silva/Yaya/Aguero were the core of his first City side and he replaced them all. He's now going to need to replace the likes of Walker/Rodri(?)/Gundogan/Bernardo/De Bruyne/Mahrez but so far he's made a bit of a mess of it.
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I would argue the rebuild was just a build, as he turned what was already a title winning team into one in his own image.

I don't think he has the foresight to start planning ahead of time, like SAF did, and forgo a couple of seasons not challenging for the title to get there. Plus, United still had to worry about their best players getting poached in their prime by Madrid. Because of City's owners' huge economic and political power they've never really had to worry about that. The fact the EPL also became the best paying league probably helped with that too though, to be be fair.
 
Hammondo said:
How much control of buying players do you really think he has?
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Well he's been there the best part of a decade and is the most important person at the club so I'd assume he might have some say. I doubt the club sold Cole Palmer from underneath him either but again, could be wrong.
 
Bale Bale Bale said:
Well he's been there the best part of a decade and is the most important person at the club so I'd assume he might have some say. I doubt the club sold Cole Palmer from underneath him either but again, could be wrong.
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Yea he has a say, but he won't be the main decider.
 
Money have ruined this sport. New and young football fans will not get chance to experience real football.
 
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