Other Games - 2024/25

[LeeB]

His style is to strangle opponents out of the game, boring as fuck unless you've got Messi, and still then largely monotonous.

[Monty]

That Barça team will remain his (and their) greatest achievement, sure they had money but so much of the team was academy, and it was the best football he's managed in his coaching career. Everything since then has been chequebook, bullying, frictionless dominance, a kind of mummifying football, a great big golden pyramid built around a dead and empty husk.

I hope he does become the Saudi manager, the great bald hypocrite.

[cdbearsfan]

Anyone on this forum could have won the league with half of the best international team ever plus the best player ever. Likewise, anyone could win stuff with Bayern and the financially-doped Man City. Everything he's ever won, he's done in cheat mode. Win a league with Brighton, St Pauli or Levante and I'll be impressed.

[Sexual Ealing]

I'd like to rule myself out of the 2008 Barca gig. The pressure was already getting to me.

[VILLA MOLE]

i don’t think there is a team i would rather not watch

[PeterWithesShin]

What he did at Barcelona was very good. It's easy to say anyone could do it, they didn't. He did. He changed how football is played. His Man City team are boring as fuck though and his achievements there are meaningless.

[ADVILLAFAN]

i don’t think there is a team i would rather not watch

Stoke under Pulis?

[cdbearsfan]

Aston Villa 2011-17.

[Grande Pablo]

I had the displeasure of seeing a fair amount of Wolves games from 95-00 thanks to working for a business with a box & I had to do the corporate thing when it didn't clash with Villa commitments.  The facilities, food, bars were top notch.  Then the football started.  Saw better at places like Rushall Olympic in my formative years in the late 70s.

[lovejoy]

Caught between genius, revolutionary, cheque book/cheat code manager.

I can't ignore what he's done, but I equally can't ignore that he couldn't have had better conditions to do it in.

Barcelona with the best midfield, probably ever, behind the best player of all time? And loads of money? Bayern Munich in a 1 horse league, but doesn't win Big Ears. Man City, with levels of cheating that even Juventus might blush. I mean.

Was that the era when Barcelona were funnelling money to the chief of Spanish refs on a consultancy basis?

[PeterWithesShin]

Twats

https://x.com/AmorimEra_/status/1925129946889908330

[malckennedy]

Twats

https://x.com/AmorimEra_/status/1925129946889908330

Enough to make you want Man Utd to win. Which is weird.

[cdbearsfan]

You don't know what's gone on before that video, to be fair.

[Dogtanian]

You don't know what's gone on before that video, to be fair.

Yes, but also, knowing football fans as we do, it could have been anything or absolutely nothing.

[cdbearsfan]

Yep, absolutely.