Guardiola

[Mors]

I would hope that there's a bit more competition in this league. Certainly, despite the Arab billions, there isn't such a massive gap between the richest biggest club, and the next richest and biggest in the Premiership vs Germany. We have three or four who will always at least compete.

The top 4 are obviously them, the scum, the arse, chelsea. The scum are in a state of disarray and their squad doesn't look anything like competitive regardless of manager, the arse are perennial also-rans regardless of the occasional 30mill player, and the russian crook seems to have lost his motivation to bankroll another rebuild. If city add pep, and a handful of new 50+mill players, I can see the league turning very uncompetitive.

 

[keniget]

Did he accept the Bayern job after they won the treble? I maybe wrong but I thought he agreed to take the Bayern job midway into Heynckes final season. I don't think even Bayern directors expected the success towards the end of the season in January when Guardiola agreed to take on the job.

I don't know, you're probably right. They were great that season.

 

[Aidan O' Neill]

Barca finished 3rd the season before he took over. They had some great players but they were all over the place, they were not by any estimation the best team on the planet, peoples memories are distorted by the fact that they were head and shoulders above every other team in europe about 6 months after he arrived. His spell at Barcelona was the most successful in the history of the club. Bayern have always been the richest team in Germany, beore he arrived they won 1 title in the previous 3 years, under Guardiola they have been more dominant than ever. This season will see Bayern win their 4th consecutive Bundesliga title, something never done before, any way you slice it hes a phenomenon.

As for the uber competitiveness of the Premier league its myth. In the last 5 years 3 clubs have won the title in the premier league, 2 have won the Bundesliga and 3 have won La Liga. In the same period 8 teams in Germany and Spain have finished in the top 4 compared to 6 in the premier league. Theres nothing in it.

Barca had won the Champions League two years before her came in. He took over a very good team in need of some different guidance and he delivered in a huge way. That team played some phenomenal football (although I prefer watching them now) and he did an excellent job, but they had some of the top players in the world. He didn't transform a poor team.

Bayern had just won a treble in 2013 and had started to pick off the best players of their only title rivals and have the funds to buy their way to the next few titles also. The previous 1 in 3 stat is irrelevant as Dortmund had gone backwards since then. His Bayern team also got completely ripped to shreds twice in the Champions League too.

 

[peekay]

I don't know, you're probably right. They were great that season.

Guardiola agreed to join Bayern in January 2013 which was midway into Bayern's treble season.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo.../Pep-Guardiola-agrees-Bayern-Munich-deal.html

 

[Skullflower]

Anyone who goes to man city is a cunt of unfathomable proportion.