2015 - 2016 Football Thread - Page 216

On December 20 2015 20:23 smr wrote:

I'm really unsure how to rate Guardiolas performance in Munich. When the season ends he most likely won 3 national championships and 2 national cups.
He could win the CL but that isn't nearly as easy to predict.

He took a great squad that won the triple, strengthened it and introduced a style that can destroy most opponents. Nobody should be surprised when he wins a game with a 4+ goal difference.
But not even Magath could make this team not win the championship. The roster is so far ahead of everybody else in Germany that national trophies are almost a given. In the end if it's not a record for decades nobody is going to ask if you won a championship being 5 or 15 points ahead of the 2nd place finisher.

That leaves us with a few destructions of european tier 1.5/2 teams like porto and roma which conceded 6+ goals in a single game and clear losses against Barca and Real.
I don't think he's bad. Sure there was some luck in his career first taking over a Barca squad that had in form Messi, Iniesta etc and afterwards leading Bayern who have no competition in Germany but then it took him 2.5 years to lose his first match in the first half of the season. His teams are incredibly consistent and even bench and youth players often instantly fit into the system and look as if they were from another planet compared to the average league player.