He’s won the league with Chelsea.
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Good shout, forgot about that.
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I could ask the same questions in reverse - could Nuno do what Pep has done? It’s not about whether he could win the league or CL with limited resources - he’s won both in various places with the resources he had available. You can buy up all the most expensive players in the world and still win fuck all. United are living proof of that - they’ve spunked nearly 2 billion quid on players over the past 12 seasons and won almost nothing of note.
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Yeah so they’re pretty mutually exclusive concepts, no? The very notion that there are “relegation specialists” would suggest that some, if not most/all managers have a particular context within which they work (see Lampard and Derby County for example) but then would struggle beyond.
I respect Jürgen far more because he hasn’t been a winner with just us, but also Dortmund and Mainz 05.
HAHAHA @PeachesEnRegalia
Twit.
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Do you ever shit with the door open when you’re home alone, only to hear your wife and in-laws get back before you’ve wiped?
Asking for a friend.
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Wiped?
Spot who isn’t a real Croydoner.
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3-ply bog roll, too.
La di da!!!
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I’m guessing that it is a pretty big deal for the teams who win it.
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Considering it got downgraded to a competition where PL U21s get a run out it probably less of a trophy that it once was and it still fails to bring in the crowds.
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Don’t know that I agree with this. All it took was a loss for the old narrative to surface…
Maybe. But there is now a quite impressive list of him doing something mad in a big game.
It’s interesting how management styles go in cycles, and managers can very quickly become yesterdays men. I remember when Benitez and Mourinho were the big managers, and suddenly the game moved past them, and the era of chess playing Uber tacticians was over.
I have a funny feeling that Guardiola is reaching the end of his run, and his style of management - the suffocating control and micro management of players - is starting to feel old school. There is a new breed of your managers coming through - led by Slot and Alonso - who look like the coming force.
I can only speak for myself, but (and Arteta is another one) I don’t know how players don’t piss themselves laughing when dealing with him. He comes across as a bit ridiculous, bouncing around like a toddler.
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You can add Emery to the list, yet players at Villa don’t seem to mind. But I understand the general point about what appears to be the beginning of the end of a cycle…
However, my point is about the tendency to cherry pick to fit a continuing narrative.
For instance, nobody’s ever bothered to mention the supposedly crazy idea of his use of a false nine in a big game because it worked!
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He forgot that the Arse did win…the London mini Premium League.
It’s tougher to win in the “competition” of 7 teams, compared to being the best of 2 for the C S. 
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There have been some unlikeable cunts in football over the years, but boy oh boy wowee…Pep is pushing the boundaries like no-one else before him…
‘Impossible for my soul’
I just vomited on the bloke across from me on the train. When I explained why, he agreed with my reaction…
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He must know the club is fucked.
Not quite the exit strategy I was expecting…
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Pep(tic) ulcer?
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I can see it coming.
Next Monday, the punishment given to these cheating cunts will be a points deduction which puts them below Leicester and therefore relegates them.
Then, Leicester will receive a points deduction for their financial irregularities, putting them back below City.
Job done.
Cunts
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