Most certainly since it's a United forum.
True football fans not blinded by tribal bitterness can see his greatness and are just grateful to be breathing the same air of this prince, nay, GOD among men.
But you are being emotional aren’t you.
10 match ban for Evra
He’s a city fan pretending to be a Leicester fan (posting history shows he seems to only be in city related threads). Which is weird considering it’s fine to be a city fan on here. They’re an emotional fanbase when it comes to everyone not bowing down and lauding over them and Pep.
Of course everyone would want him.
I mean obviously, but it's not that simple - Pep at City works as a whole because they had built the club for him prior to his arrival, with the Txiki/Ferran duo laying the groundwork for the chequebook manager to walk in and succeed. He would have refused to work in the mess of the post SAF years anyway.
Makes sense
Speak for yourself.
Pep would have improved united by far even without those structures? I mean United came second twice, you think Pep wouldn't have done much better with the same squad?
Good point I was somehow too annoyed to remember there haha.
This is re-writing history though. By 2011, Pep was already considered the best at the time and was wanted by every club but he chose to go to Bayern. Pep was already seen as a sure thing by the time Fergie left United.
Yep, not disputing that. It also wouldn't have been the domination he's had at City, and he probably would have been frustrated with some of the Woodward signings and the such.
He spits more than a tobbaco chewing baseball player from the 70's
Please remind me of this kind of tactical revolution and how it differed from things that already existed?
The thing is that OGS and Mourinho finished 2nd behind Pep. I'm pretty confident that with the same squad they had, he'ld have won the league playing a much better brand of football than those 2 did.
You're in denial if you want to argue against the fact that a lot of teams have been "trying" to copy a lot of the aspects of Pep's tactics since after his first season at Barcelona as a coach.
I mean Bayern did but the reasons for that are kind of obvious, Van Gaal had kind of paved the way at that point too. I'd say a lot of German clubs leaned more towards Klopp and the like. It definitely had an impact on Premier League clubs and i guess he really, really emphasised the tactics others were using.
I don't argue that teams do/did that. But I question which of these aspects were revolutionary? Most are based on the classic Dutch school Cruyff originally made popular and like @caid mentioned LvG made a comeback of that at Bayern around the same time Pep did in Barcelona.
You were really pleased with that post, weren’t you?
Nope.
Which coach wouldn't want to be associated with a football signature style though? Every time possession football or the term tiki taka is mentioned, his name is what will always be the first to come to people's minds.
I was thinking doping amongst other things. Doubt he wants credit for that.
Not to mention he should be stripped for a number of his trophies. So it’s not merely taint but also illegitimate trophies which should be taken away.
This.
