Just goes to show. Maybe they aren't omnipotent after all.
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Just goes to show. Maybe they aren't omnipotent after all.
I don't think they are anywhere near unbeatable. They are more or less the same side we finished on top of last season.
But scoring wasnt the problem for Citeh - stopping the other team scoring was. Its a bit of a Pep trait. His sides have never been that solid in defence.
Similar to us they have added quality in defence and in midfield and look to have a young wayward British talent rejuvenated in attack.
The media do of course love them at the moment because of what I call the Pep effect but to be fair they are playing very well.
Give me a break. So he did well at Barca with one of the best squads ever assembled at the peak of its powers. He won lots of Bundesligas in Germany with a side that is destined to win approx 7 or 8 out of every 10 regardless. But he didn't get another CL out of that Bayern team and with all the talent they had he should have at least got to another final or two.
He's undoubtedly a quality manager but I am interested to see how he does in a league where there are about four or five sides capable of challenging his team rather than the one or none he has been used to domestically.