DonAndres
Wild Man of Borneo
Idk, the squad conversation has flip flopped so hard all of the time that it can't be taken into account.
It's been said last year's squad was better when we were doing shit earlier this season. People now say that Rakitic gives us a big advantage but there was another perspective that last year's midfield had: a much less declined Iniesta in the business end of the season (truth), a less declined Xavi, Cesc who was 'better than Rakitic', etc. People say Lucho is lucky to have Pique, Messi, and Neymar in this form but in reality I'd say it is Lucho's setup that has gotten the best out of those three. Neymar wasn't scoring like this until he was moved to a more central-wide forward position, he was nowhere near as comfortable under Tata. Pique was good under Tata, started off this season shit off the back of a terrible individual WC, and then Lucho benched his ass and brought him back to prime level Pique performances through his man management. Can't even get started on Messi when Tata was a big factor in his worst season ever, even actively trying to minimize Messi's impact on the game while Lucho has got him back to *fingers crossed* his best ever level. Alves was a cancer to our team last year under Tata yet under Lucho he's reportedly the hardest trainer and in a role where he's amazing. Things like Alexis 13/14>>Suarez 14/15 have been said too. Who's to say that Lucho's squad of extremely high performing elite players isn't because he got them to be at that level and that Tata made them underwhelm? Or vice-versa if this had been about 1 month ago or possibly in the not-so predictable future?
You can't compare the managers based on their squads when the opinions of those squads have flip flopped over 43820948230 times, not to mention that the way they got the best out of their squads interferes with the idea that one is better than the other. I won't compare Lucho to Tata until the end of the season, when we see how Lucho can respond managerially to every single point in the timeline of a season. We haven't yet seen him in the knockouts of the CL or the 2nd Clasico leg. Our momentum is crazy good but it's source is a miraculously crazy turnaround that happened in the span of 1-2 games, who's to say that, god forbid, we don't relapse or collapse?
It's been said last year's squad was better when we were doing shit earlier this season. People now say that Rakitic gives us a big advantage but there was another perspective that last year's midfield had: a much less declined Iniesta in the business end of the season (truth), a less declined Xavi, Cesc who was 'better than Rakitic', etc. People say Lucho is lucky to have Pique, Messi, and Neymar in this form but in reality I'd say it is Lucho's setup that has gotten the best out of those three. Neymar wasn't scoring like this until he was moved to a more central-wide forward position, he was nowhere near as comfortable under Tata. Pique was good under Tata, started off this season shit off the back of a terrible individual WC, and then Lucho benched his ass and brought him back to prime level Pique performances through his man management. Can't even get started on Messi when Tata was a big factor in his worst season ever, even actively trying to minimize Messi's impact on the game while Lucho has got him back to *fingers crossed* his best ever level. Alves was a cancer to our team last year under Tata yet under Lucho he's reportedly the hardest trainer and in a role where he's amazing. Things like Alexis 13/14>>Suarez 14/15 have been said too. Who's to say that Lucho's squad of extremely high performing elite players isn't because he got them to be at that level and that Tata made them underwhelm? Or vice-versa if this had been about 1 month ago or possibly in the not-so predictable future?
You can't compare the managers based on their squads when the opinions of those squads have flip flopped over 43820948230 times, not to mention that the way they got the best out of their squads interferes with the idea that one is better than the other. I won't compare Lucho to Tata until the end of the season, when we see how Lucho can respond managerially to every single point in the timeline of a season. We haven't yet seen him in the knockouts of the CL or the 2nd Clasico leg. Our momentum is crazy good but it's source is a miraculously crazy turnaround that happened in the span of 1-2 games, who's to say that, god forbid, we don't relapse or collapse?
