29 May 2015 11:33:03
Seen a few comments regarding Pep being lined up to be the next United manager and as the Giggs debate seemed to go smoothly I'll ask another one.
Is Pep as good a manager as his CV would state or is he lucky to have had 2 world class squads to work with?
{Ed025's Note - lucky for me welsh..
29 May 2015 11:49:17
When I look at the plethora of trophies in his cabinet I couldn't brand him as lucky even if I wanted to.
29 May 2015 12:31:53
ive never seen a team play the way his barcelona team did.
the way they hunted the ball back and then just passed through you.
one of the best team I've ever seen
29 May 2015 12:37:32
I know it's a bit different in terms of players but look at our squad when Moyes took over, a title winning side on high morale after winning the 20th title. I don't think Pep would have been able to win the league with that side but I do think he would have still competed up there with the other big boys.
Yes he has been fortunate but how many managers have we seen fail with very good teams just for another one to come in and do amazing with them?
Pep is a world class manager and I'd take him here in a heart beat.
29 May 2015 12:36:06
Lucky but also talented, not been really tested yet for me
29 May 2015 13:10:16
Lucky to have landed the squads he's had, but extremely talented to have managed and delivered at such a high level. Love to see him here in the future.
29 May 2015 13:30:38
Agree with Brendo and Pabawazza, he's defo got lucky but he's surely very good too.
Would be nice to see him given more of a challenge one day and he does have a lot of the qualities required for the united job. I've always preferred direct football to possession football but seeing as we've gone down that route with LvG perhaps Pep would be the ideal next candidate.
29 May 2015 13:41:45
With the squads he inherited also came egos, it's only natural when you're surrounded by World Class players, they all have egos which is why they are the best so to get them all playing together, manage them across a period of 50/60 games, dropping them, adopting various styles of play, I'd suggest Pep is a good manager.
29 May 2015 14:07:04
It helps if you were a top class player with the ego side of things I think. Players will automatically respect him. I know it doesn't always work like that.
29 May 2015 16:59:49
Agree with jred , I think they were probably the best ever team a few years ago. They ripped us a new one a couple times lol
29 May 2015 23:16:25
Totally agree Jred for me the best overall football team of the last 3 decades.
31 May 2015 07:05:19
Jred
The current Barca team is better. They are going to be the standard for the next few years. They have a transfer ban that end in Jan and given ability to pretty much get most players they want, with a bit of tweaking they will be scary good.
I think they might be the first team to repeat as CL winners. Heard it here first lol. This year and next year.
31 May 2015 07:06:56
A team that sells Sanchez and looks better for it is scary good. Their current team has an extra gear that their previous teams did not have.
31 May 2015 13:05:51
He is definately very good, but the teams he inherited make it hard to tell whether he's truly great or "merely" very good.
I wouldn't want him here though, wrong type of football, and it's the football that made me fall in love with utd, not the titles (especially since that was when SAF had only just started winning trophies).
Klopp on the other hand is also extremely good, and his style of football is more exciting, if less ellegant.