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Video: Guardiola welcomes 'awesome' Reds back into Champions League


Watch as the Bayern Munich manager says LFC return is good for the competition

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Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola said he was happy Liverpool FC will be making a return to Champions League football because they are "playing awesome".



The Spaniard was speaking ahead of his team's clash with Manchester United in Europe's premier tournament.
The German champions, who won the Bundesliga on March 25 with seven games to spare, take on David Moyes' struggling side at Old Trafford tomorrow night.
Guardiola, who lifted the Champions League twice during his time in charge at Barcelona, said: "I'm happy that Liverpool are coming back this season, because they are playing awesome.
"They deserve to be there and it's good for the Champions League that next season Liverpool will be there."
The Reds saw off Tottenham Hotspur yesterday to go top of the Premier League table. Champions League qualification is an almost certainty - and many Reds fans are daring to dream of domestic glory for the first time since 1990.
Bayern Munich are holders of the Champions League and favourite to retain the title with many pundits.
Guardiola, who only took over in Munich in last summer, also joked with journalists that during his sabbatical from football after leaving the Catalan giants, he met Sir Alex Ferguson in New York City.
He said the former Manchester United boss had such a strong accent he couldn't tell if he had been offered the manager's job at Old Trafford or not.
 
He's like the anti Mourinho. Says nice things about other clubs, focuses on his own team without the arrogance and spitefulness Mourinho does, and plays great football to boot. If Mourinho was at Bayern he'd be playing Badstuber up front.
 
Silver Sean said:
Rodgers is also and anti-Maureen. Respectful without being an arse kisser, only concentrated on his own team, genuine and not full of shit.
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Its sort of annoying that Rodgers relationship with Mourinho always gets mentioned and how working with Mourinho must of been a big influence on him, the difference between a Rodgers team and a Mourinho team is about as far away from each other as you can get, its the total opposite really, Tony Pulis and Sam Allardyce football is nearer Mourinhos football than Rodgers.

Villas Boas, now thats one of these Mourihno diciples who has clearly been heavily influenced by him.
 
Spaghetti Legs said:
Its sort of annoying that Rodgers relationship with Mourinho always gets mentioned and how working with Mourinho must of been a big influence on him, the difference between a Rodgers team and a Mourinho team is about as far away from each other as you can get, its the total opposite really, Tony Pulis and Sam Allardyce football is nearer Mourinhos football than Rodgers.

Villas Boas, now thats one of these Mourihno diciples who has clearly been heavily influenced by him.
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Eh?

You might hate Jose but his Chelsea side in 04/05 played some amazing stuff, as did Inter when they won the treble and Madrid when they won the league.

He's a superb manager who's side play great football for the most part.
 
Dreambeliever said:
Eh?

You might hate Jose but his Chelsea side in 04/05 played some amazing stuff, as did Inter when they won the treble and Madrid when they won the league.

He's a superb manager who's side play great football for the most part.
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In every major league he's been in, he's been known for his defence-first approach.
His teams never destroyed the biggest rivals through 'total football', look at any of the El Classico's, the CL final with Inter, our many games under Rafa against him.
Rodger's philosophy is closer to someone like Guardiola. Or Wenger when he had the skilful athletic players. That's the point.
 
I think Rodgers has learned a lot about man-management and building relationships from Mourinho. His tactical ideas are pretty much polar opposite though, much more in the Guardiola camp.
 
Dreambeliever said:
Eh?

You might hate Jose but his Chelsea side in 04/05 played some amazing stuff, as did Inter when they won the treble and Madrid when they won the league.

He's a superb manager who's side play great football for the most part.
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Mourinho plays bollocks football.
 
Semolina Lipton said:
Mourinho plays bollocks football.
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He won't listen to you.

Anyone remember when his Porto team kicked Celtic off the pitch in the UEFA cup final? I used to work with a die hard Rangers fan who hated anything to do with Celtic and even she admitted they were cheated out of the cup by his team.

That's what Liverpool should expect in their next match.
 
athensruairi said:
He won't listen to you.

Anyone remember when his Porto team kicked Celtic off the pitch in the UEFA cup final? I used to work with a die hard Rangers fan who hated anything to do with Celtic and even she admitted they were cheated out of the cup by his team.

That's what Liverpool should expect in their next match.
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Oh he'll play any dirty trick he can to win at Anfield.
 
Inter had 14% possession against Barca in 2nd leg of Champions league Semi I believe, now I'm not saying racking up big possession stats means anything but 14% is just ridiculous...
 
Just read this and thought of this thread.

Usher never fails to speak sense in his articles.



Apr 03 5:51PM BST
Rodgers' stark contrast with The Special One

Posted by David Usher

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Though Brendan Rodgers previously served under Jose Mourinho, the managerial style of Liverpool's head man could not be more different than his former boss.

It's difficult to believe that Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers served part of his coaching apprenticeship under the tutelage of Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho. The self-proclaimed "Special One" gave Rodgers a big leg up in his coaching career when he invited him onto his Chelsea coaching staff in 2004, and Rodgers recently admitted "I probably wouldn't be where I am now but for him." Yet the men whose charges currently occupy the top two places in the Premier League table couldn't be any more different if they tried.

In the NFL people often talk about "coaching trees." A prominent, successful head coach will have worked with many assistant coaches, some of whom will later go on to become good head coaches in their own right. The "Bill Parcells tree," for example, produced Super Bowl winners Bill Belichick, Sean Payton and Tom Coughlin, among others.

Mourinho's coaching tree includes Rodgers, Andre Villas-Boas and Steve Clarke, who have all gone on to manage Premier League teams. With both Clarke and Villas-Boas, you can see at least some degree of similarity with Mourinho's playing style (if not personality traits), as all would be regarded as coaches who put the emphasis on defence over attack. Rodgers, however, seems to have little in common with Mourinho from a style standpoint. In fact his entire footballing philosophy appears to be completely at odds with that of his former mentor.

Caution is not a word with which the Reds' boss is particularly familiar. It's extremely rare that you will see Rodgers make any kind of "safety first" move. He's a front-foot manager; he picks attacking lineups, he plays attacking football and he always sends his teams out to try to win football matches. It's doubtful he'd even know where to start if he had to "play for a draw."

Rodgers and Mourinho are both great tacticians and strategists, but there's a key difference in their approach: Mourinho is a coach who specialises in "parking the bus" when he needs to and who has achieved great success in doing so. Tactics for him generally centre around nullifying the opposition’s strengths.

For Rodgers, it's about exploiting what the opposition are not so good at. If you needed to get a 0-0 draw or 1-0 in any stadium in the world, Mourinho would undoubtedly be the man you'd want to pull that assignment off and Rodgers wouldn't even be in the running. After all, Liverpool haven't had a goalless draw all season and haven't managed a 1-0 victory since September when they edged out Manchester United at Anfield. If you needed to go somewhere and score four or five, however, Rodgers trumps Mourinho all day long.

Mourinho is more of a pragmatist; in terms of his footballing beliefs, he has far more in common with former Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez than he does with Rodgers, although neither Mourinho nor Benitez would care to admit that, given the obvious disdain they have for one another.

Tactically, Mourinho and Rodgers are as different as can be -- it's chalk and cheese really. Chelsea are built on a solid defence; Liverpool on a devastating attack. Liverpool are the Premier League's top scorers with 88, while Chelsea have the meanest defence, having conceded just 24 goals. Just two points separate the sides, but they are worlds apart in how they racked up those points.

It's not just in their approach to the game that the two differ, either. Mourinho has fallen out with countless people over the years due to his controversial antics and outspoken nature. He's had numerous arguments with players (be it the opposition or his own), various feuds with rival managers and countless problems with referees. Heck, last week he was even chastising a ball boy!

Rodgers in contrast, seems to get on with everybody. Or if he doesn't, he at least manages to keep whatever beef he may have out of the public eye. Again, it's a chalk and cheese situation. Mourinho often appears to seek confrontation; Rodgers is the polar opposite.

Then there's their respective approach to man-management. It's difficult to imagine Rodgers throwing his strikers under the bus in the manner Mourinho has frequently done throughout this season. Of course, it helps when your strikers are doing their job as well as Liverpool's are, but even last year when the side were struggling, Rodgers refrained from publicly criticising his players. In fact, Rodgers generally goes to great lengths to praise his players, often to the point of leaving himself open to ridicule -- referring to Joe Allen as "the Welsh Xavi" in the "Being Liverpool" series and claiming that Raheem Sterling is "made of steel" being two prime examples.

It's not about whose approach is better or worse; every manager has their own style and personality and Mourinho's record speaks for itself, so his way is clearly working for him. I'm just intrigued by how the student's approach differs to that of the teacher. It's almost as though Rodgers learned from Mourinho by intently studying his methods and approach, and then deciding to go out and do the exact opposite.
 
Yeah, there's a lot to agree with in that article. The comparison of Jose and Rafa is right on the money.

I also think that Jose's style of play is one of the reasons the mancs board didn't ratify him as the successor that Ferguson clearly wanted. The fact they then chose Moyes is even funnier when you consider it.
 
A good article overall, but I'd take issue with it on the question of man-management. Mourinho's recent vapourings about his strikers are very much the exception rather than the rule and IMO it's misleading to take them as typical. 99 times out of 100 his players would run through brick walls for him and I suspect Rodgers has learned quite a lot from the way Mourinho manages players behind the scenes.

As far as the Mourinho/ManUre thing goes, my bet would be that his general behaviour was as significant as his footballing philosophy in ruling him out of contention for that job (and quite possibly for the LFC job too, in which he was widely reported to be interested when we appointed Rafa). For instance, I loved it when his Porto side knocked ManUre out of the CL and he hared down the Old Toilet touchline in celebration, but I also remembered it when he began to be mentioned as a possible successor to GH, and thought: no, perhaps not. A pound to a penny says the LFC and ManUre boards reacted in much the same way.
 
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