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RvB
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands6240 Posts
October 27 2016 06:03 GMT
#1401
The man doesn't win for 6 games and he's already overrated. Give him some time.
evilfatsh1t
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia8715 Posts
October 27 2016 08:35 GMT
#1402
ive thought he was overrated since his bayern days
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
October 27 2016 09:04 GMT
#1403
Yeah the Bayern team was easier to say well yes he won the league which he should, however he didn't make Bayern monsters in the Champions League at all and still only holds the the titles with Barcelona. If he takes this City team to multiple SEMI FINALS i think i would be impressed but i can't even see him doing that yet, of course very early. He also doesn't seem to respect the leagues he plays in, i can understand philosophy being no1 in his view but you have to respect the leagues you work in.
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RvB
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands6240 Posts
October 27 2016 09:39 GMT
#1404
Guardiola won 2 champions leagues, 6 national leagues, 4 cups and went into 7 champions league finals since 2008/2009 and he's overrated because he didn't win the champions league with Bayern and doesnt win 6 games in a row with City?
You're just putting unrealistic expectations on someone and then call him overrated. There are literally only 2 managers with more Champions Leagues on his name.

For the record Mourinho has 2 CL's, 8 national leagues, 4 cups, 8 semi finals and has only 1 (22 vs 21) more title in total while he's considered a top coach by pretty much everyone.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/12040/10295298/jose-mourinho-v-pep-guardiola-the-story-of-the-rivalry
evilfatsh1t
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia8715 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-10-27 10:06:41
October 27 2016 10:04 GMT
#1405
the difference between mourinho and pep is mou's early success wasnt thanks to him having godly teams at his disposal. pep had messi, xavi and iniesta all in their prime, not to mention the other world class players that made up the rest of the team.
he then moves to bayern which is arguably the 2nd best team in the world (or 3rd if you consider rm to be better) and dominates a league that doesnt have anyone else to win it anyway, but falls short in CL repeatedly.
mou won cl with fucking porto and inter and has won trophies in like...every league with a variety of teams of which only madrid is consistently considered to be top 5 in the world

and im not even a mou fanboy. yeah hes man utd's coach now but ive never been a fan of his teams/management approach
Savatage
Profile Joined February 2016
Italy182 Posts
October 27 2016 10:13 GMT
#1406
couldn't say it in a better way.

Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-10-27 10:24:17
October 27 2016 10:23 GMT
#1407
Yeah the Pep issue is can he do it outside of Barcelona. He went to Bayern and didn't improve them, that is fact. He took over them when they were no1 in the world, after winning champions league, he left them after losing to Atletico Madrid in the semi finals somehow. He joins Man City starts well then all of a sudden concedes goal left and right to Celtic and hasn't won in 6 games in all competitions. In England this puts huge pressure on you which it will be interesting to see how he deals with it as the press will be throwing things at him left and right.

The problem i have is he doesn't respect the leagues he plays in at all and throws his style 100% onto that team until it either breaks or works. In Bayern you can argue it didn't work but the fact that Bayern squad/team is vastly superior to anything else in that league it "worked" and won him titles. He has a huge test to see if this current City team can do it in this league quickly as not getting top 4 could be a possibility if we are still talking about this sort of run after the next 6 games.

Mourinho is also struggling for first time in his career. He had a crazily bad season for Chelsea and got sacked and now steps into a Yanited team he thought he solved with his transfer dealings for that to heavily fall short so far too as he has no idea of his best 11 and the results so far are not good for him.
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Salteador Neo
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Andorra5591 Posts
October 27 2016 10:23 GMT
#1408
Yes Pep had beast teams in the past and dominated their leagues and together they basically made Barça the best team in the world for 4 years and Bayern dominated Germany. Why does that make him overrated? Afaik the only better coach in the last 30 years is SAF. Pep haters are unreal, just like Messi haters. Why not wait until he coaches your team (if that ever happens) instead of hating just for the sake of hating.

Didn't Mou start coaching top league teams before Guardiola did? Comparing their numbers is like comparing Neymar's with Messi's. 5 years difference is huge in football.
Revolutionist fan
WillyWanker
Profile Joined December 2011
France1915 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-10-27 10:54:46
October 27 2016 10:48 GMT
#1409
I think he is overrated because that "rating" is just a projection of our expectations, it's nowhere close to objectivity. Haters are just waiting for him to fail to criticize him, but when he does something good, it's thanks to the players. There's no point for a discussion here.

Pande, I really don't get the thing about disrespecting the league. If the clubs wanted their team to play Catenaccio, they'd hire Mourinho, not Pep. BPL has 0 "style" anyway, that's why their teams have been struggling in Europe these past years, and now you want to criticize someone because he doesn't want to play the roulette-style that is British football these days xD

I think Simeone doesn't respect la Liga, he plays too defensive. People don't like innovation I guess, change is so scaaary.
Skynx
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
Turkey7150 Posts
October 27 2016 10:57 GMT
#1410
Half of this thread would prolly win CL with that Barca squad.
"When seagulls follow the troller, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. Thank you very much" - King Cantona | STX 4 eva
[sc1f]eonzerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Belgium6710 Posts
October 27 2016 11:15 GMT
#1411
On October 26 2016 01:24 aseq wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 25 2016 23:25 TorsoKing wrote:
I dont like Premier League that much. Got kinda boring

Yeah man. Same team winning every year and stuff. No good players. Totally boring...

Terrible lvl .i did see manu vs pool and it was really boring.im glad pep is in the premier,u could atleast watch a team trying to play the ball.
evilfatsh1t
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia8715 Posts
October 27 2016 11:29 GMT
#1412
On October 27 2016 20:15 [sc1f]eonzerg wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 26 2016 01:24 aseq wrote:
On October 25 2016 23:25 TorsoKing wrote:
I dont like Premier League that much. Got kinda boring

Yeah man. Same team winning every year and stuff. No good players. Totally boring...

Terrible lvl .i did see manu vs pool and it was really boring.im glad pep is in the premier,u could atleast watch a team trying to play the ball.

utd vs pool is a terrible game to base the level of the average premier league game.
it is a mou team vs "big" opposition.
real madrid vs barcelona was boring a lot of the times too when mou was at rm
RvB
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands6240 Posts
October 27 2016 11:40 GMT
#1413
On October 27 2016 19:04 evilfatsh1t wrote:
the difference between mourinho and pep is mou's early success wasnt thanks to him having godly teams at his disposal. pep had messi, xavi and iniesta all in their prime, not to mention the other world class players that made up the rest of the team.
he then moves to bayern which is arguably the 2nd best team in the world (or 3rd if you consider rm to be better) and dominates a league that doesnt have anyone else to win it anyway, but falls short in CL repeatedly.
mou won cl with fucking porto and inter and has won trophies in like...every league with a variety of teams of which only madrid is consistently considered to be top 5 in the world

and im not even a mou fanboy. yeah hes man utd's coach now but ive never been a fan of his teams/management approach

A godly Barcelona which he helped create. Pique, Alves, Busquets, Pedro are all players which he took into the first team and he got rid of older players like Deco or Ronaldinho.

Falls short in the CL? He gets into the semi finals every year. Of course that's no finals but consistency like that is a solid performance in itself. There aren't many teams or coaches who get into the semi finals year after year.

The teams Mou has coached after Porto are: Chelsea, Inter, Real Madrid, Chelsea and Manchester United which are all top clubs. The inter team was really really good when they won the CL (although they collapsed afterwards). He basically failed at RM, the 2nd year at Chelsea and isn't doing well with Manchester United yet he's considered a top coach while Guardiola is overrated.

Yes Guardiola relies on very strong teams but so does literally every top manager from Mourinho to LVG. Sometimes they fail but that doesn't mean they're immediatly overrated.
sharkie
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Austria18481 Posts
October 27 2016 12:00 GMT
#1414
On October 27 2016 20:40 RvB wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 27 2016 19:04 evilfatsh1t wrote:
the difference between mourinho and pep is mou's early success wasnt thanks to him having godly teams at his disposal. pep had messi, xavi and iniesta all in their prime, not to mention the other world class players that made up the rest of the team.
he then moves to bayern which is arguably the 2nd best team in the world (or 3rd if you consider rm to be better) and dominates a league that doesnt have anyone else to win it anyway, but falls short in CL repeatedly.
mou won cl with fucking porto and inter and has won trophies in like...every league with a variety of teams of which only madrid is consistently considered to be top 5 in the world

and im not even a mou fanboy. yeah hes man utd's coach now but ive never been a fan of his teams/management approach

A godly Barcelona which he helped create. Pique, Alves, Busquets, Pedro are all players which he took into the first team and he got rid of older players like Deco or Ronaldinho.

Falls short in the CL? He gets into the semi finals every year. Of course that's no finals but consistency like that is a solid performance in itself. There aren't many teams or coaches who get into the semi finals year after year.

The teams Mou has coached after Porto are: Chelsea, Inter, Real Madrid, Chelsea and Manchester United which are all top clubs. The inter team was really really good when they won the CL (although they collapsed afterwards). He basically failed at RM, the 2nd year at Chelsea and isn't doing well with Manchester United yet he's considered a top coach while Guardiola is overrated.

Yes Guardiola relies on very strong teams but so does literally every top manager from Mourinho to LVG. Sometimes they fail but that doesn't mean they're immediatly overrated.


Porto and Chelsea at the time Mourinho coached them were definitely not top clubs. Same can be said about Inter and ManUtd (third coach with mediocre results tells me that ManUtd squad is not top).

No one can say if Barca would have become the powerhouse they were with or without Pep. But the truth is that both Barca and Bayern won tons of stuff without Pep.
Sadir
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
Vatican City State1176 Posts
October 27 2016 12:17 GMT
#1415
On October 27 2016 19:23 Pandemona wrote:
Yeah the Pep issue is can he do it outside of Barcelona. He went to Bayern and didn't improve them, that is fact. He took over them when they were no1 in the world, after winning champions league, he left them after losing to Atletico Madrid in the semi finals somehow. He joins Man City starts well then all of a sudden concedes goal left and right to Celtic and hasn't won in 6 games in all competitions. In England this puts huge pressure on you which it will be interesting to see how he deals with it as the press will be throwing things at him left and right.

The problem i have is he doesn't respect the leagues he plays in at all and throws his style 100% onto that team until it either breaks or works. In Bayern you can argue it didn't work but the fact that Bayern squad/team is vastly superior to anything else in that league it "worked" and won him titles. He has a huge test to see if this current City team can do it in this league quickly as not getting top 4 could be a possibility if we are still talking about this sort of run after the next 6 games.

Mourinho is also struggling for first time in his career. He had a crazily bad season for Chelsea and got sacked and now steps into a Yanited team he thought he solved with his transfer dealings for that to heavily fall short so far too as he has no idea of his best 11 and the results so far are not good for him.


I m really not fond of Guardiola, but to be fair, the season before Guardiola took over, Bayern won the triple. So surpassing that is...yeah kind of hard.
Greg_J
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
China4409 Posts
October 27 2016 12:43 GMT
#1416
I'm about to say something I never thought I would say;
'Rafa Benitez is doing a good job at Newcastle.'
I hate it. But you can quote me on that. The Championship is a very tough division to get out of in the right direction.
WillyWanker
Profile Joined December 2011
France1915 Posts
October 27 2016 13:17 GMT
#1417
On October 27 2016 21:17 Sadir wrote:
I m really not fond of Guardiola, but to be fair, the season before Guardiola took over, Bayern won the triple. So surpassing that is...yeah kind of hard.

What's bothering me the most is that they say "Bayern was #1 before Pep arrived". Bayern was probably the best team that year but that's it. Bayern was/is a consistent top 3-4, but they haven't dominated Europe for years as some people make it look. Heynckes lost the league vs Dortmund. The year Inter wins the CL, Barça is superior to Bayern. The year Chelsea wins it, Barça is also superior to Bayern. The only dominating team of the last few years has been Barça. And even then they "just" won 4 of the last 10 CL.
InFiNitY[pG]
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
Germany3474 Posts
October 27 2016 14:12 GMT
#1418
On October 27 2016 22:17 WillyWanker wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 27 2016 21:17 Sadir wrote:
I m really not fond of Guardiola, but to be fair, the season before Guardiola took over, Bayern won the triple. So surpassing that is...yeah kind of hard.

What's bothering me the most is that they say "Bayern was #1 before Pep arrived". Bayern was probably the best team that year but that's it. Bayern was/is a consistent top 3-4, but they haven't dominated Europe for years as some people make it look. Heynckes lost the league vs Dortmund. The year Inter wins the CL, Barça is superior to Bayern. The year Chelsea wins it, Barça is also superior to Bayern. The only dominating team of the last few years has been Barça. And even then they "just" won 4 of the last 10 CL.


Whatever happened the years before the year when Bayern dominated is absolutely irrelevant for this argument. If they were the best at that very moment when Pep took over, it doesn't matter that Barca was better 2, 5 or 20 years before that. If you win CL 10 times in a row and drop out of the group stage in your 11th year, you are no longer the best.
"I just pressed stimpack, and somehow I won the battle" -Flash
WillyWanker
Profile Joined December 2011
France1915 Posts
October 27 2016 14:30 GMT
#1419
Consistency at the highest level is what define best teams. The Champions League format isn't made for consistency. You can be lucky with the draws and win it because all the other big teams are getting eliminated on the other side of the bracket. You want to know who's the best? Play a league format with 20+ games. There's a reason why I don't consider Madrid to be the best despite them winning 2 of the last 3 CL. They won only 1 Liga in 8 years. Stop just analyzing results and start looking at how these results are achieved.

Pep qualified for 7 semi finals in a row. That's consistency at the highest level.
Rebs
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Pakistan10726 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-10-27 14:57:37
October 27 2016 14:46 GMT
#1420
On October 27 2016 21:00 sharkie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 27 2016 20:40 RvB wrote:
On October 27 2016 19:04 evilfatsh1t wrote:
the difference between mourinho and pep is mou's early success wasnt thanks to him having godly teams at his disposal. pep had messi, xavi and iniesta all in their prime, not to mention the other world class players that made up the rest of the team.
he then moves to bayern which is arguably the 2nd best team in the world (or 3rd if you consider rm to be better) and dominates a league that doesnt have anyone else to win it anyway, but falls short in CL repeatedly.
mou won cl with fucking porto and inter and has won trophies in like...every league with a variety of teams of which only madrid is consistently considered to be top 5 in the world

and im not even a mou fanboy. yeah hes man utd's coach now but ive never been a fan of his teams/management approach

A godly Barcelona which he helped create. Pique, Alves, Busquets, Pedro are all players which he took into the first team and he got rid of older players like Deco or Ronaldinho.

Falls short in the CL? He gets into the semi finals every year. Of course that's no finals but consistency like that is a solid performance in itself. There aren't many teams or coaches who get into the semi finals year after year.

The teams Mou has coached after Porto are: Chelsea, Inter, Real Madrid, Chelsea and Manchester United which are all top clubs. The inter team was really really good when they won the CL (although they collapsed afterwards). He basically failed at RM, the 2nd year at Chelsea and isn't doing well with Manchester United yet he's considered a top coach while Guardiola is overrated.

Yes Guardiola relies on very strong teams but so does literally every top manager from Mourinho to LVG. Sometimes they fail but that doesn't mean they're immediatly overrated.


Porto and Chelsea at the time Mourinho coached them were definitely not top clubs. Same can be said about Inter and ManUtd (third coach with mediocre results tells me that ManUtd squad is not top).

No one can say if Barca would have become the powerhouse they were with or without Pep. But the truth is that both Barca and Bayern won tons of stuff without Pep.


Yeah as Chelsea has proven you can play ass football and win the Champions league. He also benefited from alot of Portuguese players that were peaking at that time. But yes full credit for that win.

Inter was a top club when Mou picked them up.. dafuq you on about. They had spent all of Morratis money on squad building and had been dominating Seria A since Calcio. They were the best that Italy had to offer. Winning with Inter was unusual sure, but they were very much a top team. Again full credit for that win.

But by the same token you have to give Guardialo full credit for his wins. Why is that so hard ? If teams started to play like shit after Mourinho leaves them that probably means hes not someone who is good at creating a footballing culture that is designed to succeed.

Thats why I call him the 5 hour energy manager. You get a boost, but then the crash afterwards is debilitating.

As for Guardiola at Bayern, if you consider not winning the CL a failure, sure he failed. But really how is he supposed to "improve" on a team that won the treble ? Does that mean that when a team like United or Barca that won a treble and didnt win it the next year was because of the managers failure to "improve" them ?

Rubbish.
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