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I can blast someone for having a ridiculous opinion. I’d laugh at someone for preferring girls aloud to led zeppelin too.
They play scintillating football and have one of the best managers in the world.
In your opinion it's ridiculous. That doesn't make it ridiculous.
The play is scintillating because they have the best squad in the league by quite a distance - money no object. The best manager in the world yet again manages a team with the best squad in the league by quite a distance.
It's neither organic nor repeatable unless you throw money at it.
Don't like Chelsea at all, but wouldn't you just luuurrrv them to equalise?
Brentford play pretty football and haven't spent millions....
Again, I find it scintillating at times, boring at others. That's my view not the view of the op.
A lot of the keeping of the ball, especially at the back is more aimed at frustrating opposition, somewhat of a negative tactic in itself. Runs a big risk against high pressing teams.
Maybe I misunderstood. When you asked "why shouldn't someone prefer our style of play to Pep's?" and followed that up with "some prefer the old style British centre forward style, that's their prerogative," I naturally assumed you were talking about the same subject, ie: Cardiff City's current 'style' of play (if there is such a thing).
If you think they’re negative you couldn’t have watched much of them.
There’s very little possession for possessions sake like other teams. Look at their matches against arsenal they played them off the park.
Fair enough if you don’t like their owners or the money aspect, I don’t either. But they are one of the best teams we’ve seen in the UK and with probably one of the best managers of all time.
The question was a very simple one to understand, Dave. Different people prefer different styles of play when it comes to football. Some may love Guardiola's style, some might find it leaves them cold. It's perfectly fine to have a different opinion; people complaining about some's right to hve a different opinion makes them look like faux intelligentsia When Saturday Comes readers...
The reference to "old style British centre forward style" was entirely along the same lines, using one particular example of a style of play. You may want to conflate thatto mean something else but that's your issue not mine.
When they get the ball up and around the oppositoon penalty area, I agree with you - it's been fantastic. There are times when there are endless passes often for passing sake which is a negative side of it. Two sides of the same coin if you like.
I don't believe you can separate the on the pitch from the off the pitch in this case. There's no chance Man City would have risen the way they have to dominate the way they have without throwing money around - and I don't believe Pep would have taken the Man City role on without knowing a "money no object" approach would be taken.
I must have read your post wrong.
Thought you said Man City had to spend millions to play like they do under Pep.
Money doesn't just make you good all of a sudden. It definitely helps, but not for everyone... look at Everton for instance.
They're worse now than before they spent all those millions.
You talk sense a lot of the time about football, so for you not to acknowledge that Pep is having a hand in their upturn is a bit baffling.
Tiring the opposition isn't pointless, but Christ the Man City-Chelsea game was boring
In this instance money has definitely helped. It's allowed Pep to cherry pick a squad by is pretty clearly far and above the rest of the Prem league. Of course Pep is having a hand; if you gave Trollope the same money Man City wuld probably be relegated.
For me, it's the case that Pep needed to spend big to get the squad to play the way he wanted to. It's not money or Pep, it's the fact both were needed.
You put Pep as manager of say Crystal Palace and tried to play the same way without spending big,it would be pear shaped fairly quicky.
Pep clearly has a particular style of play he wants to use, it's not changed much in any of his management roles. To be effective as it has been, it needs the best players they can get in and that means a large amount of money has been spent.
Man City have mssively increased the arms race though - £50m for Walker just raised the stakes massively. I think we'll see transfer fees artificially being raised as teams try to catch Man City up. I don't think it's good for British football as a whole as the knock on effects will be damaging.
Not so sure they would be.
He would need "budget" players but I honestly believe if he got players in to match the work rates and style of play the balance of the team could be the same, minus the ridiculous talent. You don't find a budget KDB for example.. but you can replicate the style. They probably wouldn't be knocking on Europe's door but I don't think they would go down.