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I agree. I mean, what will a new manager do anyway? Magically make Alonso younger? Or impart Dante with Baresi-esque defensive composure?

Pep will still be more than welcome at Citeh.

NO. He will be fired on the spot.

Play relaxed and at 40%, and we are in for a very nasty surprise! Veratti, Lucas, Pastore, Ibra and Cavani will give us an ass-whooping for the ages!

Yup, I remember that one as well. Essien was also spared several yellows in the 2nd leg. As for the penaldos that Chelsea thought they merited, Pique's handball was from a grand distance of 50cm. Yaya vs Drogba was shoulder to shoulder until Drogba decided to do what he does best: have his ass...

If they go through tonight (likely) they will be up there. Every game is different. They also have weekly training sessions in their league to prepare them for the semis, while we and Real/Atleti are locked in mortal combat in our league.

Bayern fans and their bragging over finals played in...tststststststststs. You are the only team lucky enough to have played Lyon in a CL semi. You and United that played versus Schalke! The other successful semi was against Real on penos, when Real had a Clasico in between the two legs at the...

IMO, Mou hasn't proved that he can win the CL outside of Porto or Inter. Or that he can have a team play football for that matter.

I have a sample large enough, to tell me that players and fitness matter more than managers do. End of. You say: "Mou won with a crappy Porto (they were not crappy by the way, Deco, Carvalho etc) but then you quickly go into excuse mode: "He was unlucky against Liverpool" How was he unlucky...

I didn't say it was his fault, I said he benefited from those freak occurrences. No, style of football is not subjective. Mou plays cowardly, unimaginative, defensive football that no-one but his fanbois (and his team's fans seem to stomach) Everyone wanted to play "like Barcelona" back in...

See this:

Like I said above, football was very different back then. Valencia, Depor, Leverkusen, Porto and even Monaco, were not the poor underdogs they are today. Go back to the La Liga tables from back then: La Liga 1999/2000 1. Deportivo La Coruna - 69pts goals: 66-44 2. Barcelona...

Back in 2004, European football was very different. The financial gap between teams like Monaco, Porto and Deportivo with AC Milan, Real Madrid, Barcelona, United etc was not as great as it is today. Nowhere near to be precise. That year saw the self-destruction of the big teams in the CL...

Again, you seem to believe that just because I am a Barca fan, I have some kind of fetish for Pep. I do not. I like the guy, but do I think he was the main reason for our success back in the day? NO! That is precisely my point all along! But if we apply your logic, namely a logic that whenever a...

Name one more "Simeone case" in the last 10 years or. Upsets are quite frequent in football (especially in cup competitions) so of course you are going to have your random sides/random managers doing well at some instances. Simeone's success was against far richer opponents, on multiple fronts...

Messi chooses the player that is in the better position, and/or is easier to be reached through a pass. The Valencia defender was closing down Neymar in that instance, while Suarez was completely free, even if a bit out wide. Suarez had the option to either take the shot himself or square it for...

"instinct" may be a teenage girl?

As good as Veratti is, isn't he like super-slow? I mean, far slower than Xavi in his twenties...

The fact that you need to call upon one isolated "miracle-case" kinda proves my point.

You completely fail to see my point. Nowhere have I said that Pep is better than Jose. But he sure as hell has a better track record. Oh and Pep is still in the CL (for as much as I want Bayern to be eliminated tonight, I don't see that happening) So, how does that apply to Pep who has as many...