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Mourinho is McDonalds, Pep is Ferran Adria. That's great metaphor. No matter how much success and money it makes, Mcdonalds (Mourinho) is not the real thing. It's plastic, derrivative, soulless piece of crap.

Yes, loan for him, please. He's really a confidence player, and not enough match practice makes him nervous. He makes good moves, but is so uncomfortable when gets the ball in the final third.

Please look any Barcelona game and see what Iniesta does at the moment team loses the ball. Defending does not equal tracking back, tackling and hoofing out of the box. It's harsh to say overrated, but being an esthetically pleasing player and matchwinner he was a media and fan favourite and...

LOL. Yes, running like a headless chicken and tackling anything that moves is probably your idea of proper defending. You sound like a typical EPL fan to me, no offence. Iniesta doing little in defence? :lol: Jesus wept. Funny thing is, Iniesta became high profile lately because of his odd...

Watch the game again and name me one player in the world who can put such performance as Iniesta did tonight. Look at his movement, the way he never stops providing outlet for teammates, and then effortlessly switches to pressing in defense. The way he is able to carry and retain the ball all...

I wonder how much longer he can play on this level. His role and and style as well are extremely physically demanding. He is at the top of his game right now, but the question is, will his speed and intensity start to decrease rapidly? Maybe our medical and coaching staff know something about...

Best defensive midfielder in the world IMO. He's clearly overtaken Mascherano, and only Cambiasso could claim to be on par with him. Intelligent, tidy on ball, gritty, quick minded and kind of evil. No wonder SAF wants him, apparently. Keep your hand off, rednose. Boy is class.

Well if he just stood in the box, it would be much easier for defence to cover Real players when they attack in numbers. He is making runs and putting effort out there, also trying to play fast and simple. That provides space for other players. He' is not great atm, but not that bad.

That's like a cliche from bad Hollywood movie. He's just a rich and succesful man that loves media whoring. There are lots of them in the world today. I will always rate people like Del Bosque more. A true gentleman.

I think Pep as a decent man is an unwilling victim of the media circus and does quite well to stay away from it.

Every coach who invests his mind and heart in his job has a special connection with his group of players, from lowest division to elite. Pep cried when Barca won, but Mourinho (and others like him) feel certain urge to show they unique emotionality through media quite often. That's media...

I just don't like hysteric obssesion with success + false and exaggerated emotionality in sport.

Media whore. :lol: Sorry, but I find this particulary trashy. He was there for two years and got millions of $. Sure every coach makes a special bond with his team, but he has to show he is special, more emotional and everybody has to see it. Man really represents emptiness and superficiality...

Well, I think nobody said he is poor tacticiaan. I said he is certainly a competent tactician, but pretty conservative, not really different from majority of top football coaches today in that department. He has other outstanding abilities that make him what he is. edit: What he did against...

Barca was rusty, and beaten by a team who played their bollocks off roughing, pressing and counterattacking. Last 25 minutes when strength wore off a little, Barca were all over them and Inter was very lucky.

I'll say it again, Garrido is an example of a very good tactician. Villareal has come to Nou Camp this year and outplayed Barca in some parts of the match, and could have easily gotten better result. They did that by playing clever and ambitious football, with great ball retention and interplay...

Rijkaard did great to renew the foundations of total football at Barca and introduced some emergeing talents that are now world's best players. He did fantastic job. But Guardiola has introduced level of tactical complexity and adaptability. The discipline and intensity in which these tactics...

Yes, Wenger is sometimes careless and myopic when it comes to adjusting his team's game for particular opponent and Jose is much better at that. But you can't deny Wenger's ability to coach a group of young players to play in various setups of attacking and expansive football. And to be...

Like I said, typical Mourinho fanboy with no football knowledge. Yes, Mourinho pisses on all of them, he is God of all managers.

That's what I'm talking about. His motivation and man management abilities are top notch. That makes him arguably the best in the job. He has also shown consistently that he can change the game with proactive tactical changes, but that's something all good coaches do. But he is tactically very...